Connecticut vs Housatonic River

Connecticut and Housatonic River both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Connecticut	Yes	No	No	No
Housatonic River	Yes	No	No	No

Connecticut (noun)	Housatonic River (noun)
a New England state; one of the original 13 colonies	a river that rises in western Massachusetts and flows south through Connecticut to empty into Long Island Sound
one of the British colonies that formed the United States, with capital Hartford or Hartford and New Haven
a river in the northeastern United States; flows south from northern New Hampshire along the border between New Hampshire and Vermont and through Massachusetts and Connecticut where it empties into Long Island Sound