Clearwater River (Minnesota)
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Clearwater River (Minnesota) is a northwestern Minnesota river that drains a largely rural, forested and agricultural watershed before joining the Red Lake River within the Red River of the North basin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clearwater River (Minnesota) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11369632 — 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: Clearwater River (Minnesota) Context triple: [Red Lake River, hasTributary, Clearwater River (Minnesota)]
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A.
Chippewa River (Minnesota)
Chippewa River (Minnesota) is a river in western Minnesota that flows through agricultural and prairie landscapes before joining the Minnesota River.
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B.
Snake River (Minnesota)
Snake River (Minnesota) is a river in east-central Minnesota that flows through largely rural and forested landscapes before joining the St. Croix River.
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C.
Nemadji River
The Nemadji River is a tributary in northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin that flows into Lake Superior near the Duluth–Superior harbor, influencing the region’s watershed and estuarine environment.
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D.
Rum River
Rum River is a river in central Minnesota that flows south from Mille Lacs Lake to the Mississippi River, passing through communities such as Anoka along the way.
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E.
Clearwater Creek (Minnesota)
Clearwater Creek (Minnesota) is a small stream in Minnesota that serves as a tributary within the Rice Creek watershed.
- 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: Clearwater River (Minnesota) Target entity description: Clearwater River (Minnesota) is a northwestern Minnesota river that drains a largely rural, forested and agricultural watershed before joining the Red Lake River within the Red River of the North basin.
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A.
Chippewa River (Minnesota)
Chippewa River (Minnesota) is a river in western Minnesota that flows through agricultural and prairie landscapes before joining the Minnesota River.
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B.
Snake River (Minnesota)
Snake River (Minnesota) is a river in east-central Minnesota that flows through largely rural and forested landscapes before joining the St. Croix River.
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C.
Nemadji River
The Nemadji River is a tributary in northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin that flows into Lake Superior near the Duluth–Superior harbor, influencing the region’s watershed and estuarine environment.
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D.
Rum River
Rum River is a river in central Minnesota that flows south from Mille Lacs Lake to the Mississippi River, passing through communities such as Anoka along the way.
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E.
Clearwater Creek (Minnesota)
Clearwater Creek (Minnesota) is a small stream in Minnesota that serves as a tributary within the Rice Creek watershed.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| basin |
Red River of the North basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Red River of the North
|
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| drainageBasinCharacteristic |
agricultural
ⓘ
forested ⓘ rural ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
agricultural areas of northwestern Minnesota
ⓘ
forested areas of northwestern Minnesota ⓘ rural areas of northwestern Minnesota ⓘ |
| locatedIn | northwestern Minnesota ⓘ |
| mouthLocation |
Red Lake River, Minnesota
ⓘ
linked to:
Red Lake River
|
| mouthRiver | Red Lake River ⓘ |
| partOf |
Red River of the North watershed
ⓘ
linked to:
Red River of the North
|
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Red Lake River ⓘ |
| watercourseType | freshwater river ⓘ |
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: Clearwater River (Minnesota) Description of subject: Clearwater River (Minnesota) is a northwestern Minnesota river that drains a largely rural, forested and agricultural watershed before joining the Red Lake River within the Red River of the North basin.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.