Selawik River
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The Selawik River is a remote river in northwestern Alaska that flows through the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge before emptying into Selawik Lake near the Kotzebue Sound.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Selawik River canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5034484 — 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: Selawik River Context triple: [Selawik, locatedOn, Selawik River]
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A.
Unalakleet River
The Unalakleet River is a major river in western Alaska that flows from the Kaltag Portage area to the Bering Sea, serving as an important route for subsistence fishing, travel, and recreation.
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B.
Tanana River
The Tanana River is a major tributary of the Yukon River in central Alaska, known for flowing past the city of Fairbanks and playing a key role in the region’s ecology and transportation.
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C.
Nushagak River
The Nushagak River is a major salmon-bearing river in southwest Alaska that flows into Bristol Bay and supports important subsistence and commercial fisheries.
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D.
Kobuk River
The Kobuk River is a major river in northwestern Alaska that flows westward through remote wilderness to Kotzebue Sound above the Arctic Circle.
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E.
Alsek River
The Alsek River is a major glacial-fed river in northwestern North America that flows through the Yukon and Alaska to the Pacific, renowned for its wild, remote character and world-class wilderness rafting.
- 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: Selawik River Target entity description: The Selawik River is a remote river in northwestern Alaska that flows through the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge before emptying into Selawik Lake near the Kotzebue Sound.
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A.
Unalakleet River
The Unalakleet River is a major river in western Alaska that flows from the Kaltag Portage area to the Bering Sea, serving as an important route for subsistence fishing, travel, and recreation.
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B.
Tanana River
The Tanana River is a major tributary of the Yukon River in central Alaska, known for flowing past the city of Fairbanks and playing a key role in the region’s ecology and transportation.
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C.
Nushagak River
The Nushagak River is a major salmon-bearing river in southwest Alaska that flows into Bristol Bay and supports important subsistence and commercial fisheries.
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D.
Kobuk River
The Kobuk River is a major river in northwestern Alaska that flows westward through remote wilderness to Kotzebue Sound above the Arctic Circle.
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E.
Alsek River
The Alsek River is a major glacial-fed river in northwestern North America that flows through the Yukon and Alaska to the Pacific, renowned for its wild, remote character and world-class wilderness rafting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographical feature
ⓘ
river ⓘ |
| associatedPeople | Iñupiat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| drainageTo | Kotzebue Sound NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emptiesInto | Selawik Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsThrough | Selawik National Wildlife Refuge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEcosystemType |
Arctic tundra
ⓘ
wetland ⓘ |
| hasNearbySettlement | Selawik, Alaska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryAccess |
boat
ⓘ
small aircraft ⓘ |
| hasRecreation |
sport fishing
ⓘ
wilderness float trips ⓘ |
| hasWildlife |
caribou
ⓘ
migratory waterfowl ⓘ moose ⓘ salmon ⓘ sheefish ⓘ |
| isRemote | true ⓘ |
| languageOfToponym | Iñupiaq NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Alaska ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity | Northwest Arctic Borough NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | northwestern Alaska ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| partOf | Selawik River watershed ⓘ |
| protectedArea | Selawik National Wildlife Refuge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Arctic Alaska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| riverMouthLocatedIn | Selawik Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| riverMouthNearby | Kotzebue Sound NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
subsistence fishing
ⓘ
subsistence hunting ⓘ |
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: Selawik River Description of subject: The Selawik River is a remote river in northwestern Alaska that flows through the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge before emptying into Selawik Lake near the Kotzebue Sound.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.