Bow River
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The Bow River is a major river in the Canadian province of Alberta that flows through the city of Calgary and is an important source of water, recreation, and scenic beauty in the region.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bow River canonical | 10 |
| Bow River basin | 2 |
| Bow River at Calgary | 1 |
| Bow River watershed | 1 |
| Calgary (via Bow River tributary) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1132478 — 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: Bow River Context triple: [Calgary, locatedOnRiver, Bow River]
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A.
Saskatchewan River
The Saskatchewan River is a major waterway in Western Canada that flows eastward from the Rocky Mountains through the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba before emptying into Lake Winnipeg.
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B.
South Saskatchewan River
The South Saskatchewan River is a major river in western Canada that flows through the Canadian Prairies, formed by the confluence of the Bow and Oldman rivers and ultimately contributing to the Saskatchewan River system.
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C.
Athabasca River
The Athabasca River is a major glacier-fed waterway in western Canada that flows through the Rocky Mountains and northern Alberta, playing a key role in the region’s ecology, history, and resource development.
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D.
North Saskatchewan River
The North Saskatchewan River is a major Canadian river that originates in the Rocky Mountains and flows eastward through Alberta and Saskatchewan, including the city of Edmonton, before joining the Saskatchewan River system.
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E.
Peace River
Peace River is a major river in western Canada that flows through northern British Columbia and Alberta before joining the Slave River 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: Bow River Target entity description: The Bow River is a major river in the Canadian province of Alberta that flows through the city of Calgary and is an important source of water, recreation, and scenic beauty in the region.
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A.
Saskatchewan River
The Saskatchewan River is a major waterway in Western Canada that flows eastward from the Rocky Mountains through the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba before emptying into Lake Winnipeg.
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B.
South Saskatchewan River
The South Saskatchewan River is a major river in western Canada that flows through the Canadian Prairies, formed by the confluence of the Bow and Oldman rivers and ultimately contributing to the Saskatchewan River system.
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C.
Athabasca River
The Athabasca River is a major glacier-fed waterway in western Canada that flows through the Rocky Mountains and northern Alberta, playing a key role in the region’s ecology, history, and resource development.
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D.
North Saskatchewan River
The North Saskatchewan River is a major Canadian river that originates in the Rocky Mountains and flows eastward through Alberta and Saskatchewan, including the city of Edmonton, before joining the Saskatchewan River system.
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E.
Peace River
Peace River is a major river in western Canada that flows through northern British Columbia and Alberta before joining the Slave River system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Bow River Description of subject: The Bow River is a major river in the Canadian province of Alberta that flows through the city of Calgary and is an important source of water, recreation, and scenic beauty in the region.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bow River
subject linked to:
Kensington
subject linked to:
southern Alberta
linked to: Bow River
linked to: Bow River
linked to: Bow River
linked to: Bow River