Waukegan River
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The Waukegan River is a small waterway in northeastern Illinois that flows through the city of Waukegan into Lake Michigan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Waukegan River canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3443768 — 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: Waukegan River Context triple: [Waukegan, Illinois, hasNeighboringBodyOfWater, Waukegan River]
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A.
Des Plaines River
The Des Plaines River is a Midwestern U.S. waterway that flows through southeastern Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois, ultimately joining the Kankakee River to form the Illinois River.
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B.
Illinois River
The Illinois River is a scenic tributary of the Rogue River in southwestern Oregon, renowned for its wild and remote canyon, whitewater rafting, and diverse ecosystems within the Klamath-Siskiyou region.
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C.
Illinois River
The Illinois River is a principal waterway in the U.S. state of Illinois that serves as a key tributary of the Mississippi River and an important route for transportation, commerce, and recreation.
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D.
Fox River
The Fox River is a Midwestern U.S. river that flows through Wisconsin and Illinois, supporting numerous communities and ecosystems along its course.
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E.
Menomonee River
The Menomonee River is a tributary in southeastern Wisconsin that flows through the Milwaukee area before emptying into Lake Michigan.
- 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: Waukegan River Target entity description: The Waukegan River is a small waterway in northeastern Illinois that flows through the city of Waukegan into Lake Michigan.
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A.
Des Plaines River
The Des Plaines River is a Midwestern U.S. waterway that flows through southeastern Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois, ultimately joining the Kankakee River to form the Illinois River.
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B.
Illinois River
The Illinois River is a scenic tributary of the Rogue River in southwestern Oregon, renowned for its wild and remote canyon, whitewater rafting, and diverse ecosystems within the Klamath-Siskiyou region.
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C.
Illinois River
The Illinois River is a principal waterway in the U.S. state of Illinois that serves as a key tributary of the Mississippi River and an important route for transportation, commerce, and recreation.
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D.
Fox River
The Fox River is a Midwestern U.S. river that flows through Wisconsin and Illinois, supporting numerous communities and ecosystems along its course.
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E.
Menomonee River
The Menomonee River is a tributary in southeastern Wisconsin that flows through the Milwaukee area before emptying into Lake Michigan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
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: Waukegan River Description of subject: The Waukegan River is a small waterway in northeastern Illinois that flows through the city of Waukegan into Lake Michigan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.