Costilla River
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The Costilla River is a tributary of the Rio Grande that flows through northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, known for its scenic mountain valley landscapes and trout fishing.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| South Fork Rio Grande | 2 |
| Costilla Creek | 1 |
| Costilla River canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5151569 — 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: Costilla River Context triple: [Costilla County, Colorado, namedFor, Costilla River]
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A.
Huerfano River
The Huerfano River is a tributary of the Arkansas River in southern Colorado, known for flowing through Huerfano County and lending its name to the region.
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B.
Alamosa River
The Alamosa River is a waterway in southern Colorado that flows through the San Luis Valley, supporting local agriculture and wildlife habitats.
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C.
Pecos River
The Pecos River is a major river in the southwestern United States that flows through New Mexico and Texas before joining the Rio Grande.
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D.
Zuni River
The Zuni River is a tributary of the Little Colorado River in the American Southwest, flowing through western New Mexico and eastern Arizona and serving as an important water source for the Zuni people.
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E.
Río Colorado
Río Colorado is a town in Argentina’s Río Negro Province known as an agricultural hub and gateway between the Pampas and Patagonian regions.
- 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: Costilla River Target entity description: The Costilla River is a tributary of the Rio Grande that flows through northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, known for its scenic mountain valley landscapes and trout fishing.
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A.
Huerfano River
The Huerfano River is a tributary of the Arkansas River in southern Colorado, known for flowing through Huerfano County and lending its name to the region.
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B.
Alamosa River
The Alamosa River is a waterway in southern Colorado that flows through the San Luis Valley, supporting local agriculture and wildlife habitats.
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C.
Pecos River
The Pecos River is a major river in the southwestern United States that flows through New Mexico and Texas before joining the Rio Grande.
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D.
Zuni River
The Zuni River is a tributary of the Little Colorado River in the American Southwest, flowing through western New Mexico and eastern Arizona and serving as an important water source for the Zuni people.
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E.
Río Colorado
Río Colorado is a town in Argentina’s Río Negro Province known as an agricultural hub and gateway between the Pampas and Patagonian regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| basinCountry | United States of America ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
northern New Mexico
ⓘ
southern Colorado ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Colorado
|
| hasEcosystemType | mountain river ecosystem ⓘ |
| hasFishSpecies | trout ⓘ |
| hasRecreationActivity |
angling
ⓘ
camping nearby ⓘ |
| hasRegion |
Sangre de Cristo Mountains region
ⓘ
linked to:
Sangre de Cristo Mountains
|
| hasScenicQuality | high scenic value ⓘ |
| hasValleyType | mountain valley ⓘ |
| hasWaterBodyType | freshwater river ⓘ |
| knownFor |
scenic mountain valley landscapes
ⓘ
trout fishing ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Colorado
ⓘ
Costilla County, Colorado ⓘ New Mexico ⓘ Taos County, New Mexico ⓘ |
| mouthLocatedIn | New Mexico ⓘ |
| mouthRiver | Rio Grande ⓘ |
| partOf |
Rio Grande watershed
ⓘ
linked to:
Rio Grande basin
|
| tributaryOf | Rio Grande ⓘ |
| usedFor |
outdoor recreation
ⓘ
recreational fishing ⓘ |
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: Costilla River Description of subject: The Costilla River is a tributary of the Rio Grande that flows through northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, known for its scenic mountain valley landscapes and trout fishing.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Costilla River
linked to: Costilla River
linked to: Costilla River