St. Joseph River
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The St. Joseph River is a major river in the Midwestern United States that flows through Michigan and Indiana before emptying into Lake Michigan at the city of St. Joseph, Michigan.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| St. Joseph River canonical | 24 |
| St. Joseph River (Maumee River tributary) | 2 |
| St. Joseph River (Maumee) | 1 |
| St. Joseph River (Maumee) at Fort Wayne | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20488 — 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: St. Joseph River Context triple: [Lake Michigan, inflow, St. Joseph River]
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A.
Calumet River
The Calumet River is an industrially significant waterway in the Chicago metropolitan area that connects Lake Michigan to a network of canals and rivers in Illinois and Indiana.
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B.
Muskegon River
The Muskegon River is a major river in Michigan that flows westward across the state, supporting recreation, wildlife habitats, and local communities before emptying into Lake Michigan.
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C.
Grand River (Michigan)
Grand River (Michigan) is the longest river entirely within the U.S. state of Michigan, flowing westward across the Lower Peninsula before emptying into Lake Michigan at Grand Haven.
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D.
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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E.
Milwaukee River
The Milwaukee River is a river in southeastern Wisconsin that flows through the city of Milwaukee before emptying into Lake Michigan.
- 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: St. Joseph River Target entity description: The St. Joseph River is a major river in the Midwestern United States that flows through Michigan and Indiana before emptying into Lake Michigan at the city of St. Joseph, Michigan.
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A.
Calumet River
The Calumet River is an industrially significant waterway in the Chicago metropolitan area that connects Lake Michigan to a network of canals and rivers in Illinois and Indiana.
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B.
Muskegon River
The Muskegon River is a major river in Michigan that flows westward across the state, supporting recreation, wildlife habitats, and local communities before emptying into Lake Michigan.
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C.
Grand River (Michigan)
Grand River (Michigan) is the longest river entirely within the U.S. state of Michigan, flowing westward across the Lower Peninsula before emptying into Lake Michigan at Grand Haven.
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D.
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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E.
Milwaukee River
The Milwaukee River is a river in southeastern Wisconsin that flows through the city of Milwaukee before emptying into Lake Michigan.
- 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: St. Joseph River Description of subject: The St. Joseph River is a major river in the Midwestern United States that flows through Michigan and Indiana before emptying into Lake Michigan at the city of St. Joseph, Michigan.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
St. Joseph River (Maumee River tributary)
subject surface form:
Bicentennial Bridge (South Bend)
subject surface form:
Bicentennial Bridge (South Bend)
this entity surface form:
St. Joseph River (Maumee River tributary)
this entity surface form:
St. Joseph River (Maumee)
this entity surface form:
St. Joseph River (Maumee) at Fort Wayne