Potomac River
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The Potomac River is a major waterway in the Mid-Atlantic United States that flows through the Appalachian region and forms part of the boundary between Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
All labels observed (26)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1135 — 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: Potomac River Context triple: [Washington, D.C., locatedOnRiver, Potomac River]
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Hudson River
The Hudson River is a major waterway in eastern New York State that flows south past cities like Albany and New York City before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at New York Harbor.
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Malden River
The Malden River is a short urban river in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts that flows through communities including Everett before joining the Mystic River.
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Arlington, Virginia
Arlington, Virginia is an urban county directly across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., known for its dense development, federal government agencies, and landmarks such as the Pentagon and Arlington National Cemetery.
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D.
Clay Pit Pond
Clay Pit Pond is a small, man-made body of water in Belmont, Massachusetts, known as a local recreational and scenic spot surrounded by walking paths and parkland.
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Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe is a large, deep, and famously clear freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains, straddling the border of California and Nevada and serving as a major destination for outdoor recreation and tourism.
- 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: Potomac River Target entity description: The Potomac River is a major waterway in the Mid-Atlantic United States that flows through the Appalachian region and forms part of the boundary between Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
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A.
Hudson River
The Hudson River is a major waterway in eastern New York State that flows south past cities like Albany and New York City before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at New York Harbor.
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B.
Malden River
The Malden River is a short urban river in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts that flows through communities including Everett before joining the Mystic River.
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C.
Arlington, Virginia
Arlington, Virginia is an urban county directly across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., known for its dense development, federal government agencies, and landmarks such as the Pentagon and Arlington National Cemetery.
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D.
Clay Pit Pond
Clay Pit Pond is a small, man-made body of water in Belmont, Massachusetts, known as a local recreational and scenic spot surrounded by walking paths and parkland.
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E.
Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe is a large, deep, and famously clear freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains, straddling the border of California and Nevada and serving as a major destination for outdoor recreation and tourism.
- 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: Potomac River Description of subject: The Potomac River is a major waterway in the Mid-Atlantic United States that flows through the Appalachian region and forms part of the boundary between Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
Referenced by (563)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Woodbridge, Virginia
subject surface form:
Montgomery County, Maryland
subject surface form:
Yellow Line (Washington Metro)
this entity surface form:
Potomac River valley
subject surface form:
Old Town (Alexandria, Virginia)
subject surface form:
Foggy Bottom
subject surface form:
Foggy Bottom
subject surface form:
Stratford Hall
subject surface form:
Washington County (District of Columbia)
subject surface form:
Long Bridge
this entity surface form:
Potomac River region
subject surface form:
Interstate 495 (Capital Beltway)
this entity surface form:
Potomac River basin
this entity surface form:
Potomac River Washington Channel (general reach)
this entity surface form:
Potomac River watershed