Passaic River
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The Passaic River is a major river in northern New Jersey that flows through several cities and industrial areas before emptying into Newark Bay.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Passaic River canonical | 61 |
| Passaic River valley | 2 |
| Hackensack River | 1 |
| Passaic River (border) | 1 |
| Passaic River (regionally nearby via Paterson) | 1 |
| Passaic River Valley | 1 |
| Passaic River basin | 1 |
| Passaic River watershed | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T895524 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Passaic River Context triple: [Paterson, New Jersey, locatedOnWaterway, Passaic River]
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A.
Raritan River
The Raritan River is a major river in central New Jersey that flows eastward into Raritan Bay and serves as an important natural and historical waterway for the region.
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B.
Raritan Valley
Raritan Valley is a region in central New Jersey characterized by communities along the Raritan River and served by the Raritan Valley Line commuter rail corridor.
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C.
Delaware River
The Delaware River is a major waterway in the northeastern United States that forms part of the borders of several states and flows past major cities including Philadelphia before emptying into the Delaware Bay.
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D.
Mianus River
The Mianus River is a small river in southwestern Connecticut and southeastern New York that flows through suburban communities and parklands before emptying into Long Island Sound.
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E.
Titicus River
The Titicus River is a tributary stream in southwestern Connecticut and southeastern New York that feeds into the Croton River within the New York City water supply system.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Passaic River Target entity description: The Passaic River is a major river in northern New Jersey that flows through several cities and industrial areas before emptying into Newark Bay.
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A.
Raritan River
The Raritan River is a major river in central New Jersey that flows eastward into Raritan Bay and serves as an important natural and historical waterway for the region.
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B.
Raritan Valley
Raritan Valley is a region in central New Jersey characterized by communities along the Raritan River and served by the Raritan Valley Line commuter rail corridor.
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C.
Delaware River
The Delaware River is a major waterway in the northeastern United States that forms part of the borders of several states and flows past major cities including Philadelphia before emptying into the Delaware Bay.
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D.
Mianus River
The Mianus River is a small river in southwestern Connecticut and southeastern New York that flows through suburban communities and parklands before emptying into Long Island Sound.
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E.
Titicus River
The Titicus River is a tributary stream in southwestern Connecticut and southeastern New York that feeds into the Croton River within the New York City water supply system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Passaic River Description of subject: The Passaic River is a major river in northern New Jersey that flows through several cities and industrial areas before emptying into Newark Bay.
Referenced by (69)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
New Jersey Route 21
subject surface form:
Interstate 280 (New Jersey)
this entity surface form:
Passaic River (regionally nearby via Paterson)