Yazoo River
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The Yazoo River is a major waterway in west-central Mississippi that flows through the Mississippi Delta before joining the Mississippi River.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yazoo River canonical | 37 |
| Yazoo River, Mississippi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1249356 — 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: Yazoo River Context triple: [Itta Bena, Mississippi, locatedNear, Yazoo River]
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A.
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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B.
Pont Rouge
Pont Rouge is a historic area near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, best known as the site where revolutionary leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines was assassinated in 1806.
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C.
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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D.
Coosa River
The Coosa River is a major waterway in the southeastern United States that flows through Alabama and Georgia, playing an important role in regional ecology, recreation, and hydroelectric power generation.
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E.
Mississippi
Mississippi is a U.S. state in the Deep South known for the Mississippi River, its influential role in American history and culture—especially blues music—and its largely rural, agricultural landscape.
- 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: Yazoo River Target entity description: The Yazoo River is a major waterway in west-central Mississippi that flows through the Mississippi Delta before joining the Mississippi River.
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A.
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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B.
Pont Rouge
Pont Rouge is a historic area near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, best known as the site where revolutionary leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines was assassinated in 1806.
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C.
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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D.
Coosa River
The Coosa River is a major waterway in the southeastern United States that flows through Alabama and Georgia, playing an important role in regional ecology, recreation, and hydroelectric power generation.
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E.
Mississippi
Mississippi is a U.S. state in the Deep South known for the Mississippi River, its influential role in American history and culture—especially blues music—and its largely rural, agricultural landscape.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Yazoo River Description of subject: The Yazoo River is a major waterway in west-central Mississippi that flows through the Mississippi Delta before joining the Mississippi River.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Itta Bena, Mississippi, United States
subject linked to:
Greenwood, Mississippi, United States
subject linked to:
Leflore County, Mississippi, United States