Bear River
E151435
Bear River is a major river in the western United States that flows through Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming before emptying into the Great Salt Lake.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bear River canonical | 3 |
| Bear River headwaters | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T946895 — 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: Bear River Context triple: [Great Salt Lake, inflow, Bear River]
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A.
Snake River
The Snake River is a major waterway in the northwestern United States that flows through Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington before joining the Columbia River.
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B.
Shoshone
The Shoshone are a Native American people traditionally inhabiting regions of the Great Basin and Rocky Mountains, known for their distinct language, culture, and historical role in the American West.
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C.
Chena River
The Chena River is a tributary of the Tanana River in interior Alaska that flows through the city of Fairbanks and is central to its recreation, scenery, and occasional flooding.
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D.
Vuoksi River
The Vuoksi River is a major waterway in northwestern Russia and southeastern Finland, known for connecting Lake Saimaa to Lake Ladoga and playing a key historical and economic role in the region.
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E.
Putah Creek
Putah Creek is a major stream in Northern California that drains the eastern slopes of the Coast Range and feeds into the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta system.
- 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: Bear River Target entity description: Bear River is a major river in the western United States that flows through Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming before emptying into the Great Salt Lake.
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A.
Snake River
The Snake River is a major waterway in the northwestern United States that flows through Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington before joining the Columbia River.
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B.
Shoshone
The Shoshone are a Native American people traditionally inhabiting regions of the Great Basin and Rocky Mountains, known for their distinct language, culture, and historical role in the American West.
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C.
Chena River
The Chena River is a tributary of the Tanana River in interior Alaska that flows through the city of Fairbanks and is central to its recreation, scenery, and occasional flooding.
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D.
Vuoksi River
The Vuoksi River is a major waterway in northwestern Russia and southeastern Finland, known for connecting Lake Saimaa to Lake Ladoga and playing a key historical and economic role in the region.
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E.
Putah Creek
Putah Creek is a major stream in Northern California that drains the eastern slopes of the Coast Range and feeds into the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| crossesPoliticalBoundary |
Idaho–Wyoming border
ⓘ
Utah–Idaho border ⓘ |
| drainageBasinIncludes |
parts of Idaho
ⓘ
parts of Utah ⓘ parts of Wyoming ⓘ |
| emptiesInto | Great Salt Lake ⓘ |
| flowsDirection | generally north then south ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Idaho
ⓘ
Utah ⓘ Wyoming ⓘ |
| hasMouthIn | Utah ⓘ |
| hasMouthNear | Brigham City, Utah ⓘ |
| hasSourceIn | Uinta Mountains ⓘ |
| hasWetlandsAtMouth | Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Western United States
ⓘ
linked to:
western United States
|
| notableFeature | largest tributary of the Great Salt Lake ⓘ |
| partOf | Great Basin ⓘ |
| region | Intermountain West ⓘ |
| riverSystem |
Great Salt Lake basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Great Salt Lake
|
| sourceLocatedIn | Utah ⓘ |
| supports | migratory bird habitat ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Great Salt Lake ⓘ |
| usedFor |
hydroelectric power
ⓘ
irrigation ⓘ municipal water supply ⓘ |
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: Bear River Description of subject: Bear River is a major river in the western United States that flows through Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming before emptying into the Great Salt Lake.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bear River