Stono River
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The Stono River is a tidal river in South Carolina historically notable as the site of the 1739 Stono Rebellion, one of the largest enslaved uprisings in the British mainland colonies.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stono River canonical | 10 |
| Stono River, South Carolina | 2 |
| Stono River region | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1553619 — 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: Stono River Context triple: [Stono Rebellion, location, Stono River]
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A.
Edisto River
The Edisto River is a blackwater river in South Carolina known for its largely undeveloped, scenic watershed and status as one of the longest free-flowing blackwater rivers in North America.
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Turkey River
Turkey River is a small river in New Hampshire that flows through and helps define the landscape of the town of Bow.
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Pee Dee River
The Pee Dee River is a major waterway in the southeastern United States that flows from the Appalachian foothills through the Carolinas to the Atlantic Ocean, historically important for transportation, agriculture, and regional development.
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Cooper River
The Cooper River is a tidal river in South Carolina that flows through the Charleston area and is a key waterway in the Charleston Harbor estuarine system.
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E.
Savannah River
The Savannah River is a major waterway in the southeastern United States that forms much of the border between Georgia and South Carolina and flows into the Atlantic Ocean.
- 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: Stono River Target entity description: The Stono River is a tidal river in South Carolina historically notable as the site of the 1739 Stono Rebellion, one of the largest enslaved uprisings in the British mainland colonies.
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A.
Edisto River
The Edisto River is a blackwater river in South Carolina known for its largely undeveloped, scenic watershed and status as one of the longest free-flowing blackwater rivers in North America.
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B.
Turkey River
Turkey River is a small river in New Hampshire that flows through and helps define the landscape of the town of Bow.
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C.
Pee Dee River
The Pee Dee River is a major waterway in the southeastern United States that flows from the Appalachian foothills through the Carolinas to the Atlantic Ocean, historically important for transportation, agriculture, and regional development.
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D.
Cooper River
The Cooper River is a tidal river in South Carolina that flows through the Charleston area and is a key waterway in the Charleston Harbor estuarine system.
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E.
Savannah River
The Savannah River is a major waterway in the southeastern United States that forms much of the border between Georgia and South Carolina and flows into the Atlantic Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Stono River Description of subject: The Stono River is a tidal river in South Carolina historically notable as the site of the 1739 Stono Rebellion, one of the largest enslaved uprisings in the British mainland colonies.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
James Island, South Carolina, United States