Owasco River
E370729
The Owasco River is a short waterway in central New York that drains Owasco Lake and flows through the city of Auburn before joining the Seneca River system.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Owasco River canonical | 2 |
| Owasco Lake outlet | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3268241 — 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: Owasco River Context triple: [Auburn, New York, hasRiver, Owasco River]
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A.
Honeoye Creek
Honeoye Creek is a stream in western New York that drains Honeoye Lake and flows northward as part of the Genesee River watershed.
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B.
Chemung River
The Chemung River is a tributary of the Susquehanna River in New York and Pennsylvania, known for its role in regional history, recreation, and flood control in the Southern Tier of New York.
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C.
Oswego River
The Oswego River is a major waterway in central New York State that drains several Finger Lakes and flows northward through the city of Oswego before emptying into Lake Ontario.
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D.
Tonawanda Creek
Tonawanda Creek is a tributary of the Niagara River in western New York that flows through communities such as Amherst and forms part of the Erie Canal.
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E.
Cattaraugus Creek
Cattaraugus Creek is a significant stream in western New York known for forming part of the boundary of the Cattaraugus Reservation and for its popular steelhead and trout fishing.
- 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: Owasco River Target entity description: The Owasco River is a short waterway in central New York that drains Owasco Lake and flows through the city of Auburn before joining the Seneca River system.
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A.
Honeoye Creek
Honeoye Creek is a stream in western New York that drains Honeoye Lake and flows northward as part of the Genesee River watershed.
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B.
Chemung River
The Chemung River is a tributary of the Susquehanna River in New York and Pennsylvania, known for its role in regional history, recreation, and flood control in the Southern Tier of New York.
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C.
Oswego River
The Oswego River is a major waterway in central New York State that drains several Finger Lakes and flows northward through the city of Oswego before emptying into Lake Ontario.
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D.
Tonawanda Creek
Tonawanda Creek is a tributary of the Niagara River in western New York that flows through communities such as Amherst and forms part of the Erie Canal.
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E.
Cattaraugus Creek
Cattaraugus Creek is a significant stream in western New York known for forming part of the boundary of the Cattaraugus Reservation and for its popular steelhead and trout fishing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| basinCountry | United States of America ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | Owasco Lake watershed ⓘ |
| drains | Owasco Lake ⓘ |
| flowsInto |
Cross Lake via Seneca River
ⓘ
linked to:
Seneca Lake via Seneca River
|
| flowsNorthFrom | Owasco Lake ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
City of Auburn, New York
ⓘ
linked to:
Auburn, New York
|
| hasHydrologicalFunction |
drainage channel for Owasco Lake
ⓘ
lake outlet ⓘ |
| hasNearbyCity | Auburn, New York ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Central New York
ⓘ
New York State ⓘ |
| locatedInWatershedOf |
Finger Lakes region
ⓘ
linked to:
Finger Lakes
|
| mouth | Seneca River ⓘ |
| partOf |
Oswego River–Lake Ontario drainage basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Oswego River
Seneca River system ⓘ
linked to:
Seneca River
|
| passesThrough |
downtown Auburn, New York
ⓘ
linked to:
Auburn, New York
|
| region | Cayuga County, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| source |
Owasco Lake outlet
ⓘ
linked to:
Owasco River
|
| tributaryOf | Seneca River ⓘ |
| uses |
boating
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ recreation ⓘ |
| watercourseType | short waterway ⓘ |
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: Owasco River Description of subject: The Owasco River is a short waterway in central New York that drains Owasco Lake and flows through the city of Auburn before joining the Seneca River system.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Owasco River