American River
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The American River is a major waterway in Northern California known for its role in the Gold Rush, outdoor recreation, and as a key tributary of the Sacramento River.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| American River canonical | 28 |
| American River (approximate regional alignment) | 1 |
| American River (to the north, across the railyards) | 1 |
| American River watershed | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22027 — 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: American River Context triple: [Sacramento, locatedOnRiver, American River]
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A.
San Joaquin River
The San Joaquin River is a major river in central California that flows through the San Joaquin Valley and supports extensive agricultural, ecological, and water supply systems before joining the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta.
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B.
Sacramento River
The Sacramento River is the longest river entirely within California, flowing through the northern part of the state and serving as a major source of water, transportation, and ecological habitat.
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C.
Trinity River
The Trinity River is a major waterway in Texas that flows through the Dallas–Fort Worth area before continuing southeast toward the Gulf of Mexico.
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D.
Merced River
The Merced River is a major Sierra Nevada waterway in California renowned for carving Yosemite Valley and providing iconic scenic, recreational, and ecological value within and beyond Yosemite National Park.
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E.
Carson River
The Carson River is a significant river in the western United States that flows through eastern California and western Nevada, playing a key role in the region’s ecology, agriculture, and water supply.
- 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: American River Target entity description: The American River is a major waterway in Northern California known for its role in the Gold Rush, outdoor recreation, and as a key tributary of the Sacramento River.
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A.
San Joaquin River
The San Joaquin River is a major river in central California that flows through the San Joaquin Valley and supports extensive agricultural, ecological, and water supply systems before joining the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta.
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B.
Sacramento River
The Sacramento River is the longest river entirely within California, flowing through the northern part of the state and serving as a major source of water, transportation, and ecological habitat.
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C.
Trinity River
The Trinity River is a major waterway in Texas that flows through the Dallas–Fort Worth area before continuing southeast toward the Gulf of Mexico.
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D.
Merced River
The Merced River is a major Sierra Nevada waterway in California renowned for carving Yosemite Valley and providing iconic scenic, recreational, and ecological value within and beyond Yosemite National Park.
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E.
Carson River
The Carson River is a significant river in the western United States that flows through eastern California and western Nevada, playing a key role in the region’s ecology, agriculture, and water supply.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: American River Description of subject: The American River is a major waterway in Northern California known for its role in the Gold Rush, outdoor recreation, and as a key tributary of the Sacramento River.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
New Helvetia (his agricultural colony)
linked to: American River
subject linked to:
Georgetown
subject linked to:
downtown Sacramento
linked to: American River
linked to: American River