Boise River
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The Boise River is a major waterway in southwestern Idaho that flows through the city of Boise and is central to the region’s recreation, irrigation, and ecology.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Boise River canonical | 45 |
| Boise River watershed | 6 |
| Boise River valley | 3 |
| Boise River system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1179372 — 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: Boise River Context triple: [Boise, Idaho, United States, locatedOnRiver, Boise 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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Spokane River
The Spokane River is a significant waterway in the northwestern United States that flows through northern Idaho and eastern Washington, including the city of Spokane, before joining the Columbia River.
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C.
Siletz River
The Siletz River is a coastal river in western Oregon known for its scenic forested watershed and popular salmon and steelhead fishing opportunities before emptying into the Pacific Ocean.
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D.
Lewis and Clark River
The Lewis and Clark River is a small coastal river in northwestern Oregon that flows through forested terrain into the Youngs River near Astoria, historically associated with the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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E.
Yakima River
The Yakima River is a significant river in south-central Washington State that supports extensive irrigation agriculture and diverse ecosystems along its course.
- 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: Boise River Target entity description: The Boise River is a major waterway in southwestern Idaho that flows through the city of Boise and is central to the region’s recreation, irrigation, and ecology.
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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.
Spokane River
The Spokane River is a significant waterway in the northwestern United States that flows through northern Idaho and eastern Washington, including the city of Spokane, before joining the Columbia River.
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C.
Siletz River
The Siletz River is a coastal river in western Oregon known for its scenic forested watershed and popular salmon and steelhead fishing opportunities before emptying into the Pacific Ocean.
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D.
Lewis and Clark River
The Lewis and Clark River is a small coastal river in northwestern Oregon that flows through forested terrain into the Youngs River near Astoria, historically associated with the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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E.
Yakima River
The Yakima River is a significant river in south-central Washington State that supports extensive irrigation agriculture and diverse ecosystems along its course.
- 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: Boise River Description of subject: The Boise River is a major waterway in southwestern Idaho that flows through the city of Boise and is central to the region’s recreation, irrigation, and ecology.
Referenced by (55)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Caldwell
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Eagle
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Garden City
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Indian Creek
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linked to: Boise River
linked to: Boise River