Coos River
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The Coos River is a coastal river in southwestern Oregon that flows through forested terrain to join the Coos Bay estuary near the Pacific Ocean.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Coos River canonical | 4 |
| Coos River watershed | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T789277 — 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: Coos River Context triple: [Coos County, Oregon, containsRiver, Coos River]
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A.
Yaquina River
The Yaquina River is a coastal river in western Oregon that flows through forested valleys before emptying into the Pacific Ocean at Yaquina Bay near Newport.
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B.
Chetco River
The Chetco River is a scenic coastal river in southwestern Oregon known for its clear waters, salmon and steelhead runs, and recreational opportunities such as fishing, boating, and hiking along its forested banks.
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C.
Klamath River
The Klamath River is a major river in southern Oregon and northern California known for its salmon runs, ecological significance, and ongoing water and dam-removal controversies.
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D.
Rogue River
The Rogue River is a major river in southwestern Oregon renowned for its scenic beauty, salmon runs, and popular whitewater rafting opportunities.
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E.
Santiam River
The Santiam River is a major river in western Oregon that flows through the Cascade Range and Willamette Valley, supporting recreation, hydropower, and important salmon and steelhead runs.
- 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: Coos River Target entity description: The Coos River is a coastal river in southwestern Oregon that flows through forested terrain to join the Coos Bay estuary near the Pacific Ocean.
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A.
Yaquina River
The Yaquina River is a coastal river in western Oregon that flows through forested valleys before emptying into the Pacific Ocean at Yaquina Bay near Newport.
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B.
Chetco River
The Chetco River is a scenic coastal river in southwestern Oregon known for its clear waters, salmon and steelhead runs, and recreational opportunities such as fishing, boating, and hiking along its forested banks.
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C.
Klamath River
The Klamath River is a major river in southern Oregon and northern California known for its salmon runs, ecological significance, and ongoing water and dam-removal controversies.
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D.
Rogue River
The Rogue River is a major river in southwestern Oregon renowned for its scenic beauty, salmon runs, and popular whitewater rafting opportunities.
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E.
Santiam River
The Santiam River is a major river in western Oregon that flows through the Cascade Range and Willamette Valley, supporting recreation, hydropower, and important salmon and steelhead runs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Coos River Description of subject: The Coos River is a coastal river in southwestern Oregon that flows through forested terrain to join the Coos Bay estuary near the Pacific Ocean.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Coos River watershed
this entity surface form:
Coos River watershed