Pit River
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The Pit River is a major river in northeastern California that drains a large portion of the Modoc Plateau and forms a key part of the Sacramento River watershed.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pit River canonical | 14 |
| Pit River basin | 2 |
| Pit River arm | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2095217 — 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: Pit River Context triple: [Sacramento River, tributary, Pit River]
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A.
Feather River
The Feather River is a major tributary of the Sacramento River in Northern California, known for its extensive role in the state’s water supply, hydroelectric power generation, and flood control.
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B.
Tule River
The Tule River is a river in California’s southern Sierra Nevada that flows westward through agricultural lands before contributing water to the Tulare Basin.
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C.
Tuolumne River
The Tuolumne River is a major Sierra Nevada waterway in California known for its scenic alpine meadows, deep granite canyons, and popular whitewater rafting and fishing opportunities.
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D.
Cosumnes River
The Cosumnes River is a relatively free-flowing river in Northern California known for its diverse riparian habitats and role in supporting regional wildlife and recreation.
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E.
Yuba River
The Yuba River is a major tributary of the Feather River in Northern California, known for its clear waters, historic gold-mining sites, and popular recreation areas in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
- 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: Pit River Target entity description: The Pit River is a major river in northeastern California that drains a large portion of the Modoc Plateau and forms a key part of the Sacramento River watershed.
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A.
Feather River
The Feather River is a major tributary of the Sacramento River in Northern California, known for its extensive role in the state’s water supply, hydroelectric power generation, and flood control.
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B.
Tule River
The Tule River is a river in California’s southern Sierra Nevada that flows westward through agricultural lands before contributing water to the Tulare Basin.
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C.
Tuolumne River
The Tuolumne River is a major Sierra Nevada waterway in California known for its scenic alpine meadows, deep granite canyons, and popular whitewater rafting and fishing opportunities.
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D.
Cosumnes River
The Cosumnes River is a relatively free-flowing river in Northern California known for its diverse riparian habitats and role in supporting regional wildlife and recreation.
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E.
Yuba River
The Yuba River is a major tributary of the Feather River in Northern California, known for its clear waters, historic gold-mining sites, and popular recreation areas in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
- 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: Pit River Description of subject: The Pit River is a major river in northeastern California that drains a large portion of the Modoc Plateau and forms a key part of the Sacramento River watershed.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Pit River
subject linked to:
Hat Creek
subject linked to:
Sacramento River and San Joaquin River
linked to: Pit River
linked to: Pit River