Yellowstone River
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The Yellowstone River is a major free-flowing river in the western United States that originates in Yellowstone National Park and flows through Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota before joining the Missouri River.
All labels observed (12)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T989662 — 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: Yellowstone River Context triple: [Missouri River, hasTributary, Yellowstone River]
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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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Niobrara River
The Niobrara River is a scenic waterway in northern Nebraska known for its unique mix of Great Plains, Sandhills, and forest ecosystems and popular for canoeing, tubing, and wildlife viewing.
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Missouri River
The Missouri River is the longest river in North America, flowing from the Rocky Mountains of western Montana to join the Mississippi River near St. Louis.
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Assiniboine River
The Assiniboine River is a major prairie river in Western Canada that flows through Saskatchewan and Manitoba before joining the Red River at Winnipeg.
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Yukon River
The Yukon River is a major waterway in northwestern North America that flows through Canada’s Yukon Territory and Alaska to the Bering Sea, historically significant for transportation, Indigenous cultures, and the Klondike Gold Rush.
- 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: Yellowstone River Target entity description: The Yellowstone River is a major free-flowing river in the western United States that originates in Yellowstone National Park and flows through Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota before joining the Missouri 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.
Niobrara River
The Niobrara River is a scenic waterway in northern Nebraska known for its unique mix of Great Plains, Sandhills, and forest ecosystems and popular for canoeing, tubing, and wildlife viewing.
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C.
Missouri River
The Missouri River is the longest river in North America, flowing from the Rocky Mountains of western Montana to join the Mississippi River near St. Louis.
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Assiniboine River
The Assiniboine River is a major prairie river in Western Canada that flows through Saskatchewan and Manitoba before joining the Red River at Winnipeg.
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Yukon River
The Yukon River is a major waterway in northwestern North America that flows through Canada’s Yukon Territory and Alaska to the Bering Sea, historically significant for transportation, Indigenous cultures, and the Klondike Gold Rush.
- 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: Yellowstone River Description of subject: The Yellowstone River is a major free-flowing river in the western United States that originates in Yellowstone National Park and flows through Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota before joining the Missouri River.
Referenced by (106)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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southwestern Montana
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Livingston
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Park County
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