Tenaya Creek
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Tenaya Creek is a mountain stream in Yosemite National Park that drains Tenaya Canyon and flows into the Merced River.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tenaya Creek canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1189617 — 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: Tenaya Creek Context triple: [Merced River, hasTributary, Tenaya Creek]
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A.
Donner Creek
Donner Creek is a stream in the Sierra Nevada of California that drains Donner Lake and flows eastward toward the Truckee River.
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B.
Yosemite Creek
Yosemite Creek is a mountain stream in Yosemite National Park that feeds the iconic Yosemite Falls before joining the Merced River.
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C.
Lone Pine Creek
Lone Pine Creek is a mountain stream in California’s eastern Sierra Nevada that flows from the slopes of Mount Whitney through the Whitney Portal area down toward the town of Lone Pine.
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D.
Grass Valley Creek
Grass Valley Creek is a smaller watercourse in Southern California that feeds into the Mojave River within the arid Mojave Desert region.
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E.
Mariposa Creek
Mariposa Creek is a stream in central California notable for its early Spanish exploration history and association with the Sierra Nevada foothill town of Mariposa.
- 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: Tenaya Creek Target entity description: Tenaya Creek is a mountain stream in Yosemite National Park that drains Tenaya Canyon and flows into the Merced River.
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A.
Donner Creek
Donner Creek is a stream in the Sierra Nevada of California that drains Donner Lake and flows eastward toward the Truckee River.
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B.
Yosemite Creek
Yosemite Creek is a mountain stream in Yosemite National Park that feeds the iconic Yosemite Falls before joining the Merced River.
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C.
Lone Pine Creek
Lone Pine Creek is a mountain stream in California’s eastern Sierra Nevada that flows from the slopes of Mount Whitney through the Whitney Portal area down toward the town of Lone Pine.
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D.
Grass Valley Creek
Grass Valley Creek is a smaller watercourse in Southern California that feeds into the Mojave River within the arid Mojave Desert region.
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E.
Mariposa Creek
Mariposa Creek is a stream in central California notable for its early Spanish exploration history and association with the Sierra Nevada foothill town of Mariposa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mountain stream
ⓘ
river ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| drains | Tenaya Canyon ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Merced River ⓘ |
| hasBasinCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasEcosystemType | montane river ecosystem ⓘ |
| hasMouthLocation |
Merced River in Yosemite National Park
ⓘ
linked to:
Merced River
Yosemite Valley ⓘ |
| hasProtectedStatus | located within a U.S. national park ⓘ |
| hasRecreationActivity |
backpacking
ⓘ
hiking ⓘ nature observation ⓘ photography ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Mariposa County, California ⓘ
linked to:
Mariposa County
North America ⓘ Sierra Nevada ⓘ Yosemite National Park ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Tenaya
ⓘ
linked to:
Tenaya Peak
|
| partOf |
Merced River watershed
ⓘ
linked to:
Merced River
|
| partOfProtectedArea | Yosemite National Park ⓘ |
| sourceRegion | Sierra Nevada ⓘ |
| watercourseThrough |
Tenaya Canyon
ⓘ
Yosemite Valley ⓘ |
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: Tenaya Creek Description of subject: Tenaya Creek is a mountain stream in Yosemite National Park that drains Tenaya Canyon and flows into the Merced River.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.