Clinton River (Michigan)
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The Clinton River is a river in southeastern Michigan that flows through suburban Detroit communities before emptying into Lake St. Clair.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clinton River (Michigan) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10131038 — 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: Clinton River (Michigan) Context triple: [Lower Peninsula of Michigan, hasBodyOfWater, Clinton River (Michigan)]
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A.
White River (Michigan)
White River (Michigan) is a river in western Michigan that flows through forested and rural areas before emptying into Lake Michigan near the town of Whitehall.
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B.
Black River (Michigan)
Black River (Michigan) is a river in northern Michigan that flows through the largely undeveloped Pigeon River Country State Forest, known for its scenic, forested surroundings and outdoor recreation opportunities.
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C.
Huron River
The Huron River is a major river in southeastern Michigan known for flowing through communities like Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti and supporting extensive recreational activities and natural habitats.
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D.
Michigamme River
The Michigamme River is a river in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula known for its forested surroundings, recreational opportunities, and role in the region’s logging and mining history.
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E.
Huron River (Michigan)
The Huron River in Michigan is a scenic waterway in the Upper Peninsula known for its rugged, forested surroundings, waterfalls, and recreational opportunities like fishing and paddling.
- 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: Clinton River (Michigan) Target entity description: The Clinton River is a river in southeastern Michigan that flows through suburban Detroit communities before emptying into Lake St. Clair.
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A.
White River (Michigan)
White River (Michigan) is a river in western Michigan that flows through forested and rural areas before emptying into Lake Michigan near the town of Whitehall.
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B.
Black River (Michigan)
Black River (Michigan) is a river in northern Michigan that flows through the largely undeveloped Pigeon River Country State Forest, known for its scenic, forested surroundings and outdoor recreation opportunities.
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C.
Huron River
The Huron River is a major river in southeastern Michigan known for flowing through communities like Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti and supporting extensive recreational activities and natural habitats.
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D.
Michigamme River
The Michigamme River is a river in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula known for its forested surroundings, recreational opportunities, and role in the region’s logging and mining history.
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E.
Huron River (Michigan)
The Huron River in Michigan is a scenic waterway in the Upper Peninsula known for its rugged, forested surroundings, waterfalls, and recreational opportunities like fishing and paddling.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| basinSize | approximately 760 square miles ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crossedBy |
Interstate 75 in Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
M-53 in Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ M-59 in Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | Lake St. Clair drainage basin ⓘ |
| flowsInto |
Anchor Bay
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lake St. Clair Metropark area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsNear |
Auburn Hills, Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harrison Township, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Utica, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Clinton Township, Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Macomb County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Mount Clemens, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Oakland County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Pontiac, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Rochester Hills, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Sterling Heights, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ suburban Detroit communities ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentalConcern |
combined sewer overflows
ⓘ
urban runoff pollution ⓘ |
| hasMouthElevation | approximately 574 feet ⓘ |
| hasRecreationArea | Clinton River Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTributary |
Galloway Creek (Michigan)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paint Creek (Michigan) NERFINISHED ⓘ Plum Brook (Michigan) NERFINISHED ⓘ Stony Creek (Michigan) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalName | Huron River of St. Clair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| length | approximately 83 miles ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southeastern Michigan ⓘ |
| mouth | Lake St. Clair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | DeWitt Clinton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Detroit metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| riverSystem | Great Lakes Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceLocation | Oakland County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan (most of state)
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan
|
| tributaryOf | Lake St. Clair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
canoeing
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ kayaking ⓘ recreation ⓘ |
| watershedManagedBy | Clinton River Watershed Council 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: Clinton River (Michigan) Description of subject: The Clinton River is a river in southeastern Michigan that flows through suburban Detroit communities before emptying into Lake St. Clair.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.