North Platte River
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The North Platte River is a major tributary of the Platte River that flows through Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska, historically serving as a key waterway and guide for westward migration routes such as the Oregon Trail.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| North Platte River canonical | 18 |
| North Platte | 2 |
| North Platte River Valley | 1 |
| North Platte River valley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T920272 — 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: North Platte River Context triple: [Oregon Trail, followsRiver, North Platte River]
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A.
Platte River
The Platte River is a broad, shallow river in the central United States that flows through Nebraska and is historically significant as a route corridor for westward expansion and a vital habitat for migratory birds.
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B.
South Platte River
The South Platte River is a major tributary of the Platte River that flows through Colorado and Nebraska, running through Denver and serving as an important source of water, recreation, and habitat in the region.
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C.
Niobrara River
The Niobrara River is a scenic waterway in northern Nebraska known for its unique mix of Great Plains, Sandhills, and forest ecosystems and popular for canoeing, tubing, and wildlife viewing.
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D.
Gunnison River
The Gunnison River is a major tributary of the Colorado River in western Colorado, known for carving the dramatic Black Canyon and supporting recreation, irrigation, and hydropower in the region.
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E.
Smoky Hill River
The Smoky Hill River is a major river in the central Great Plains of the United States, flowing through Colorado and Kansas and forming one of the principal headwaters of the Kansas River.
- 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: North Platte River Target entity description: The North Platte River is a major tributary of the Platte River that flows through Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska, historically serving as a key waterway and guide for westward migration routes such as the Oregon Trail.
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A.
Platte River
The Platte River is a broad, shallow river in the central United States that flows through Nebraska and is historically significant as a route corridor for westward expansion and a vital habitat for migratory birds.
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B.
South Platte River
The South Platte River is a major tributary of the Platte River that flows through Colorado and Nebraska, running through Denver and serving as an important source of water, recreation, and habitat in the region.
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C.
Niobrara River
The Niobrara River is a scenic waterway in northern Nebraska known for its unique mix of Great Plains, Sandhills, and forest ecosystems and popular for canoeing, tubing, and wildlife viewing.
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D.
Gunnison River
The Gunnison River is a major tributary of the Colorado River in western Colorado, known for carving the dramatic Black Canyon and supporting recreation, irrigation, and hydropower in the region.
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E.
Smoky Hill River
The Smoky Hill River is a major river in the central Great Plains of the United States, flowing through Colorado and Kansas and forming one of the principal headwaters of the Kansas River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: North Platte River Description of subject: The North Platte River is a major tributary of the Platte River that flows through Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska, historically serving as a key waterway and guide for westward migration routes such as the Oregon Trail.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
North Platte River Valley
subject surface form:
North Platte Regional Airport
this entity surface form:
North Platte
subject surface form:
North Platte Regional Airport
this entity surface form:
North Platte
this entity surface form:
North Platte River valley