Dead River
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The Dead River is a waterway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that flows through Marquette County and is impounded by several dams before reaching Lake Superior.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dead River canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9869486 — 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: Dead River Context triple: [Silver Lake Dam, affectsWaterBody, Dead River]
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A.
Dead River
The Dead River is a major river in western Maine known for its remote wilderness setting and popular whitewater rafting opportunities.
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B.
Deadman River
Deadman River is a tributary waterway in British Columbia, Canada, that flows through a semi-arid landscape before joining the Thompson River.
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C.
Starvation Creek
Starvation Creek is a location in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge, known for its nearby waterfall and a historic train incident that inspired its name.
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D.
Bloody Creek
Bloody Creek is a small waterway in Nova Scotia, Canada, historically notable as the site of early 18th-century conflicts between British and French (and allied Indigenous) forces.
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E.
Đáy River
Đáy River is a significant river in northern Vietnam that flows through several provinces and districts, serving as an important waterway and agricultural resource.
- 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: Dead River Target entity description: The Dead River is a waterway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that flows through Marquette County and is impounded by several dams before reaching Lake Superior.
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A.
Dead River
The Dead River is a major river in western Maine known for its remote wilderness setting and popular whitewater rafting opportunities.
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B.
Deadman River
Deadman River is a tributary waterway in British Columbia, Canada, that flows through a semi-arid landscape before joining the Thompson River.
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C.
Starvation Creek
Starvation Creek is a location in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge, known for its nearby waterfall and a historic train incident that inspired its name.
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D.
Bloody Creek
Bloody Creek is a small waterway in Nova Scotia, Canada, historically notable as the site of early 18th-century conflicts between British and French (and allied Indigenous) forces.
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E.
Đáy River
Đáy River is a significant river in northern Vietnam that flows through several provinces and districts, serving as an important waterway and agricultural resource.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| drainageBasin | Lake Superior watershed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Lake Superior NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
forested areas of Marquette County
ⓘ
rugged terrain of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula ⓘ |
| hasDam |
Forestville Dam
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hoist Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ McClure Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ Silver Lake Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
impoundments forming reservoirs
ⓘ
series of hydroelectric dams ⓘ |
| hasFloodEvent | 2003 Dead River flood ⓘ |
| hasReservoir |
Forestville Basin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hoist Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ McClure Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ Silver Lake Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasUse |
boating
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ hydroelectric power generation ⓘ recreation ⓘ |
| impoundedBy |
Forestville Dam
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hoist Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ McClure Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ Silver Lake Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Marquette County, Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Upper Peninsula of Michigan ⓘ |
| mouthLocatedIn |
Lake Superior
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marquette County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearCity | Marquette, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Great Lakes region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan (most of state)
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan
|
| tributaryOf | Lake Superior NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| watercourseThrough | Marquette County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| waterSystem | Lake Superior basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Dead River Description of subject: The Dead River is a waterway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that flows through Marquette County and is impounded by several dams before reaching Lake Superior.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.