Thornton Creek
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Thornton Creek is an urban stream in Seattle, Washington, that drains a large watershed before emptying into Lake Washington.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thornton Creek canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1154845 — 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: Thornton Creek Context triple: [Lake Washington, inflow, Thornton Creek]
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A.
Carroll Creek
Carroll Creek is a small waterway in Frederick, Maryland, known for the Carroll Creek Linear Park and its role in the city's flood control and downtown revitalization.
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B.
Spring Creek
Spring Creek is a waterway and wetland area in Queens, New York City, that forms part of the larger Jamaica Bay ecosystem.
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C.
Spring Creek
Spring Creek is a residential community in northeastern Nevada known for its proximity to Elko and its scenic high-desert, mountain-framed setting.
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D.
Hannibal Creek
Hannibal Creek is a waterway after which the city of Hannibal, Missouri, is named.
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E.
Sandburg Creek
Sandburg Creek is a small stream in New York’s Hudson Valley that feeds into the larger Rondout Creek within the Catskill region.
- 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: Thornton Creek Target entity description: Thornton Creek is an urban stream in Seattle, Washington, that drains a large watershed before emptying into Lake Washington.
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A.
Carroll Creek
Carroll Creek is a small waterway in Frederick, Maryland, known for the Carroll Creek Linear Park and its role in the city's flood control and downtown revitalization.
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B.
Spring Creek
Spring Creek is a waterway and wetland area in Queens, New York City, that forms part of the larger Jamaica Bay ecosystem.
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C.
Spring Creek
Spring Creek is a residential community in northeastern Nevada known for its proximity to Elko and its scenic high-desert, mountain-framed setting.
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D.
Hannibal Creek
Hannibal Creek is a waterway after which the city of Hannibal, Missouri, is named.
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E.
Sandburg Creek
Sandburg Creek is a small stream in New York’s Hudson Valley that feeds into the larger Rondout Creek within the Catskill region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Thornton Creek Description of subject: Thornton Creek is an urban stream in Seattle, Washington, that drains a large watershed before emptying into Lake Washington.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.