Mohawk River
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The Mohawk River is a major waterway in upstate New York that flows eastward through the Mohawk Valley and serves as a key route connecting the Great Lakes region to the Hudson River.
All labels observed (9)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3868 — 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: Mohawk River Context triple: [Hudson River, tributary, Mohawk River]
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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.
Merrimack River
The Merrimack River is a major New England waterway that flows through New Hampshire and northeastern Massachusetts, historically important for powering textile mills and shaping the industrial development of the region.
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C.
Charles River
The Charles River is a prominent river in eastern Massachusetts that flows between Boston and Cambridge and is known for its scenic banks, recreational activities, and role in the region’s history and culture.
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D.
East River
The East River is a tidal strait in New York City that separates Manhattan from Brooklyn and Queens and serves as a major waterway spanned by several iconic bridges.
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E.
Hudson Valley
Hudson Valley is a scenic region in eastern New York State known for its historic riverfront towns, agriculture and wineries, and proximity to New York City.
- 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: Mohawk River Target entity description: The Mohawk River is a major waterway in upstate New York that flows eastward through the Mohawk Valley and serves as a key route connecting the Great Lakes region to the Hudson River.
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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.
Merrimack River
The Merrimack River is a major New England waterway that flows through New Hampshire and northeastern Massachusetts, historically important for powering textile mills and shaping the industrial development of the region.
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C.
Charles River
The Charles River is a prominent river in eastern Massachusetts that flows between Boston and Cambridge and is known for its scenic banks, recreational activities, and role in the region’s history and culture.
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D.
East River
The East River is a tidal strait in New York City that separates Manhattan from Brooklyn and Queens and serves as a major waterway spanned by several iconic bridges.
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E.
Hudson Valley
Hudson Valley is a scenic region in eastern New York State known for its historic riverfront towns, agriculture and wineries, and proximity to New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| connectedVia | Erie Canal ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crossedBy | Erie Canal ⓘ |
| directionOfFlow | eastward ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Hudson River ⓘ |
| flowsThrough | Mohawk Valley ⓘ |
| hasBridge | Twin Bridges (New York) ⓘ |
| hasLock |
Erie Canal
ⓘ
surface form:
Erie Canal Lock E10
Erie Canal ⓘ
surface form:
Erie Canal Lock E11
Erie Canal ⓘ
surface form:
Erie Canal Lock E12
Erie Canal ⓘ
surface form:
Erie Canal Lock E13
Erie Canal ⓘ
surface form:
Erie Canal Lock E14
Erie Canal ⓘ
surface form:
Erie Canal Lock E2
Erie Canal ⓘ
surface form:
Erie Canal Lock E3
Erie Canal ⓘ
surface form:
Erie Canal Lock E4
Erie Canal ⓘ
surface form:
Erie Canal Lock E5
Erie Canal ⓘ
surface form:
Erie Canal Lock E6
Erie Canal ⓘ
surface form:
Erie Canal Lock E7
Erie Canal ⓘ
surface form:
Erie Canal Lock E8
Erie Canal ⓘ
surface form:
Erie Canal Lock E9
|
| hasTributary |
Alplaus Kill
ⓘ
Chuctanunda Creek ⓘ East Canada Creek ⓘ Kayaderosseras Creek ⓘ Schoharie Creek ⓘ West Canada Creek ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
important corridor for westward expansion in New York
ⓘ
key route connecting Great Lakes region to Hudson River ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New York
ⓘ
surface form:
New York State
Upstate New York (broad sense) ⓘ
surface form:
Upstate New York
|
| majorCityOnRiver |
Rome, New York
ⓘ
Schenectady, New York ⓘ Utica, New York ⓘ |
| mouth | Hudson River ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Mohawk people ⓘ |
| parallelTo | Erie Canal ⓘ |
| partOf |
Hudson River
ⓘ
surface form:
Hudson River watershed
|
| passesNear |
Adirondack Mountains
ⓘ
Catskill Mountains ⓘ |
| region | Mohawk Valley ⓘ |
| sourceRegion | Central New York ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Hudson River ⓘ |
| usedFor |
hydroelectric power
ⓘ
navigation ⓘ recreation ⓘ transportation ⓘ |
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: Mohawk River Description of subject: The Mohawk River is a major waterway in upstate New York that flows eastward through the Mohawk Valley and serves as a key route connecting the Great Lakes region to the Hudson River.
Referenced by (90)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Frankfort, New York
this entity surface form:
Mohawk River (regionally nearby)
this entity surface form:
Mohawk River corridor
this entity surface form:
Mohawk River basin
this entity surface form:
Mohawk River (regional proximity)
this entity surface form:
Mohawk River watershed
this entity surface form:
Mohawk River watershed
this entity surface form:
Schoharie Creek–Mohawk River–Hudson River system
this entity surface form:
Mohawk River watershed