DuPage River
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The DuPage River is a tributary of the Des Plaines River in northeastern Illinois, flowing through suburban Chicago communities and providing important recreational, ecological, and drainage functions for the region.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| DuPage River canonical | 18 |
| West Branch DuPage River | 6 |
| DuPage River watershed | 2 |
| East Branch DuPage River | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T82520 — 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: DuPage River Context triple: [DuPage County, Illinois, namedAfter, DuPage River]
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A.
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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B.
St. Louis River
The St. Louis River is a major river in northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin that flows into Lake Superior, forming part of the Duluth–Superior harbor and extensive estuary system.
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C.
Esopus Creek
Esopus Creek is a scenic stream in New York’s Catskill Mountains known for trout fishing, recreation, and its role in the New York City water supply system.
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D.
Chicago River
The Chicago River is a historically significant waterway in Chicago known for its engineered reversal of flow, its role in the city’s development, and its iconic green dyeing on St. Patrick’s Day.
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E.
St. Joseph River
The St. Joseph River is a major river in the Midwestern United States that flows through Michigan and Indiana before emptying into Lake Michigan at the city of St. Joseph, 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: DuPage River Target entity description: The DuPage River is a tributary of the Des Plaines River in northeastern Illinois, flowing through suburban Chicago communities and providing important recreational, ecological, and drainage functions for the region.
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A.
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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B.
St. Louis River
The St. Louis River is a major river in northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin that flows into Lake Superior, forming part of the Duluth–Superior harbor and extensive estuary system.
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C.
Esopus Creek
Esopus Creek is a scenic stream in New York’s Catskill Mountains known for trout fishing, recreation, and its role in the New York City water supply system.
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D.
Chicago River
The Chicago River is a historically significant waterway in Chicago known for its engineered reversal of flow, its role in the city’s development, and its iconic green dyeing on St. Patrick’s Day.
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E.
St. Joseph River
The St. Joseph River is a major river in the Midwestern United States that flows through Michigan and Indiana before emptying into Lake Michigan at the city of St. Joseph, Michigan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: DuPage River Description of subject: The DuPage River is a tributary of the Des Plaines River in northeastern Illinois, flowing through suburban Chicago communities and providing important recreational, ecological, and drainage functions for the region.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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