Tombigbee River
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The Tombigbee River is a major waterway in the southeastern United States that flows through northeastern Mississippi and western Alabama before joining the Alabama River to form the Mobile River system.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tombigbee River canonical | 59 |
| Tombigbee River basin | 8 |
| Tombigbee River system | 4 |
| Tombigbee River at Demopolis | 1 |
| Tombigbee River near Demopolis | 1 |
| Tombigbee River system (via Mobile River) | 1 |
| Tombigbee–Black Warrior river system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T820532 — 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: Tombigbee River Context triple: [Alabama, hasMajorRiver, Tombigbee River]
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A.
Cahaba River
The Cahaba River is a biologically rich, free-flowing river in central Alabama known for its high biodiversity and scenic natural habitats.
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B.
Choctawhatchee River
The Choctawhatchee River is a major river in the southeastern United States that flows through Alabama and the Florida Panhandle before emptying into the Gulf of Mexico.
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C.
Ouachita River
The Ouachita River is a major waterway in the south-central United States that flows through Arkansas and Louisiana, supporting regional ecosystems, commerce, and recreation.
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D.
Alabama River
The Alabama River is a major waterway in the U.S. state of Alabama that flows through the central part of the state and plays a key role in its transportation, ecology, and history.
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E.
Cahaba
Cahaba is a historic ghost town in Alabama that served as the state's first permanent capital in the early 19th century.
- 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: Tombigbee River Target entity description: The Tombigbee River is a major waterway in the southeastern United States that flows through northeastern Mississippi and western Alabama before joining the Alabama River to form the Mobile River system.
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A.
Cahaba River
The Cahaba River is a biologically rich, free-flowing river in central Alabama known for its high biodiversity and scenic natural habitats.
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B.
Choctawhatchee River
The Choctawhatchee River is a major river in the southeastern United States that flows through Alabama and the Florida Panhandle before emptying into the Gulf of Mexico.
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C.
Ouachita River
The Ouachita River is a major waterway in the south-central United States that flows through Arkansas and Louisiana, supporting regional ecosystems, commerce, and recreation.
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D.
Alabama River
The Alabama River is a major waterway in the U.S. state of Alabama that flows through the central part of the state and plays a key role in its transportation, ecology, and history.
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E.
Cahaba
Cahaba is a historic ghost town in Alabama that served as the state's first permanent capital in the early 19th century.
- 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: Tombigbee River Description of subject: The Tombigbee River is a major waterway in the southeastern United States that flows through northeastern Mississippi and western Alabama before joining the Alabama River to form the Mobile River system.
Referenced by (75)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Columbus, Mississippi, United States
linked to: Tombigbee River
linked to: Tombigbee River
subject linked to:
Sumter County
subject linked to:
eastern Mississippi
subject linked to:
Washington County
linked to: Tombigbee River
linked to: Tombigbee River
linked to: Tombigbee River
linked to: Tombigbee River
subject linked to:
western Alabama
subject linked to:
Columbus
subject linked to:
southwestern Alabama
linked to: Tombigbee River
subject linked to:
Tibbee Creek (nearby waterway)
linked to: Tombigbee River
subject linked to:
Tibbee Creek (nearby waterway)
subject linked to:
Tibbee Creek (nearby waterway)
linked to: Tombigbee River
subject linked to:
northeast Mississippi