Des Plaines River
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The Des Plaines River is a Midwestern U.S. waterway that flows through southeastern Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois, ultimately joining the Kankakee River to form the Illinois River.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Des Plaines River canonical | 48 |
| Des Plaines River watershed | 5 |
| Des Plaines River valley | 3 |
| Des Plaines River (segment) | 1 |
| Des Plaines River Valley | 1 |
| Des Plaines and DuPage Rivers confluence area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1128335 — 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: Des Plaines River Context triple: [Des Plaines, Illinois, locatedOnRiver, Des Plaines River]
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A.
DuPage River
The DuPage River is a tributary of the Des Plaines River in northeastern Illinois, flowing through suburban Chicago communities and providing important recreational, ecological, and drainage functions for the region.
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B.
Fox River
The Fox River is a Midwestern U.S. river that flows through Wisconsin and Illinois, supporting numerous communities and ecosystems along its course.
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C.
Illinois River
The Illinois River is a scenic tributary of the Rogue River in southwestern Oregon, renowned for its wild and remote canyon, whitewater rafting, and diverse ecosystems within the Klamath-Siskiyou region.
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D.
Illinois River
The Illinois River is a principal waterway in the U.S. state of Illinois that serves as a key tributary of the Mississippi River and an important route for transportation, commerce, and recreation.
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E.
Rock River
Rock River is a tributary of the Big Sioux River flowing through parts of Iowa and South Dakota in the United States.
- 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: Des Plaines River Target entity description: The Des Plaines River is a Midwestern U.S. waterway that flows through southeastern Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois, ultimately joining the Kankakee River to form the Illinois River.
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A.
DuPage River
The DuPage River is a tributary of the Des Plaines River in northeastern Illinois, flowing through suburban Chicago communities and providing important recreational, ecological, and drainage functions for the region.
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B.
Fox River
The Fox River is a Midwestern U.S. river that flows through Wisconsin and Illinois, supporting numerous communities and ecosystems along its course.
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C.
Illinois River
The Illinois River is a scenic tributary of the Rogue River in southwestern Oregon, renowned for its wild and remote canyon, whitewater rafting, and diverse ecosystems within the Klamath-Siskiyou region.
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Illinois River
The Illinois River is a principal waterway in the U.S. state of Illinois that serves as a key tributary of the Mississippi River and an important route for transportation, commerce, and recreation.
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Rock River
Rock River is a tributary of the Big Sioux River flowing through parts of Iowa and South Dakota in the United States.
- 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: Des Plaines River Description of subject: The Des Plaines River is a Midwestern U.S. waterway that flows through southeastern Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois, ultimately joining the Kankakee River to form the Illinois River.
Referenced by (59)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lockport, Illinois
subject surface form:
Lockport, Illinois
this entity surface form:
Des Plaines River valley
this entity surface form:
Des Plaines River watershed
subject surface form:
Des Plaines River
this entity surface form:
Des Plaines River Valley
subject surface form:
Elmwood Park, Illinois
this entity surface form:
Des Plaines River watershed
this entity surface form:
Des Plaines River watershed
this entity surface form:
Des Plaines River valley
subject surface form:
Riverwoods, Illinois
this entity surface form:
Des Plaines River watershed
this entity surface form:
Des Plaines and DuPage Rivers confluence area
this entity surface form:
Des Plaines River valley
subject surface form:
Calumet-Sag Channel