Minnesota River
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The Minnesota River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River in southern Minnesota, flowing through agricultural and prairie landscapes before joining the Mississippi near the Twin Cities.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Minnesota River canonical | 47 |
| Minnesota River Valley | 6 |
| Minnesota River watershed | 3 |
| Minnesota River basin | 2 |
| Minnesota River at Montevideo | 1 |
| Minnesota River valley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T230621 — 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: Minnesota River Context triple: [Minneapolis–Saint Paul, traversedByRiver, Minnesota River]
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A.
Menominee River
The Menominee River is a major river forming part of the border between Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, known for its forests, hydroelectric dams, and role as a key tributary in the Great Lakes watershed.
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B.
Missouri River
The Missouri River is the longest river in North America, flowing from the Rocky Mountains of western Montana to join the Mississippi River near St. Louis.
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C.
Ob River
The Ob River is one of the major rivers of western Siberia in Russia, flowing northward into the Arctic Ocean and forming part of one of the world's largest river systems.
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D.
Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is one of the longest and most significant rivers in the United States, serving as a major waterway for transportation, commerce, and drainage across much of the central continent.
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E.
White River
The White River is a river in northern Ontario, Canada, that flows into Lake Superior and is known for its rugged, forested watershed and recreational fishing opportunities.
- 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: Minnesota River Target entity description: The Minnesota River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River in southern Minnesota, flowing through agricultural and prairie landscapes before joining the Mississippi near the Twin Cities.
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A.
Menominee River
The Menominee River is a major river forming part of the border between Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, known for its forests, hydroelectric dams, and role as a key tributary in the Great Lakes watershed.
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B.
Missouri River
The Missouri River is the longest river in North America, flowing from the Rocky Mountains of western Montana to join the Mississippi River near St. Louis.
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C.
Ob River
The Ob River is one of the major rivers of western Siberia in Russia, flowing northward into the Arctic Ocean and forming part of one of the world's largest river systems.
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D.
Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is one of the longest and most significant rivers in the United States, serving as a major waterway for transportation, commerce, and drainage across much of the central continent.
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E.
White River
The White River is a river in northern Ontario, Canada, that flows into Lake Superior and is known for its rugged, forested watershed and recreational fishing opportunities.
- 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: Minnesota River Description of subject: The Minnesota River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River in southern Minnesota, flowing through agricultural and prairie landscapes before joining the Mississippi near the Twin Cities.
Referenced by (60)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Minnesota River watershed
this entity surface form:
Minnesota River at Montevideo