Old Man’s Creek
E302874
Old Man’s Creek is a stream in Illinois historically noted for its proximity to the 1832 Battle of Stillman’s Run during the Black Hawk War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old Man’s Creek canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1311189 — 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: Old Man’s Creek Context triple: [Battle of Stillman’s Run, geographicalFeatureNearby, Old Man’s Creek]
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A.
Holmes Creek
Holmes Creek is a scenic waterway in the Florida Panhandle known for its clear springs, recreational paddling, and role as a tributary of the Choctawhatchee River.
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B.
Wallace Creek
Wallace Creek is a mountain stream in California’s Sierra Nevada, known as a backcountry water source and landmark along popular hiking routes near the High Sierra Trail.
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C.
Crooked Creek
Crooked Creek is a stream in western Pennsylvania known for flowing through Armstrong County and contributing to the region’s river system and outdoor recreation.
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D.
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.
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E.
Ravenna Creek
Ravenna Creek is a small urban stream in Seattle, Washington, that flows through Ravenna Park and historically connected the area's wetlands to larger nearby water bodies.
- 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: Old Man’s Creek Target entity description: Old Man’s Creek is a stream in Illinois historically noted for its proximity to the 1832 Battle of Stillman’s Run during the Black Hawk War.
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A.
Holmes Creek
Holmes Creek is a scenic waterway in the Florida Panhandle known for its clear springs, recreational paddling, and role as a tributary of the Choctawhatchee River.
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B.
Wallace Creek
Wallace Creek is a mountain stream in California’s Sierra Nevada, known as a backcountry water source and landmark along popular hiking routes near the High Sierra Trail.
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C.
Crooked Creek
Crooked Creek is a stream in western Pennsylvania known for flowing through Armstrong County and contributing to the region’s river system and outdoor recreation.
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D.
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.
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E.
Ravenna Creek
Ravenna Creek is a small urban stream in Seattle, Washington, that flows through Ravenna Park and historically connected the area's wetlands to larger nearby water bodies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
stream
ⓘ
watercourse ⓘ |
| associatedConflict | Black Hawk War ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dateOfHistoricalAssociation | 1832 ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Rock River ⓘ |
| geographicFeatureClass | stream ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance | site associated with early phase of the Black Hawk War ⓘ |
| hasNameLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasWaterBodyType | creek ⓘ |
| historicalEventNearby | Battle of Stillman’s Run ⓘ |
| historicallyNotedFor | proximity to the 1832 Battle of Stillman’s Run ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Illinois
ⓘ
Ogle County, Illinois ⓘ near Stillman Valley, Illinois ⓘ |
| mentionedInContextOf | Battle of Stillman’s Run accounts ⓘ |
| near | Stillman’s Run battlefield ⓘ |
| partOf | Rock River watershed ⓘ |
| region | northern Illinois ⓘ |
| usedAsLandmarkDuring | Black Hawk War ⓘ |
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: Old Man’s Creek Description of subject: Old Man’s Creek is a stream in Illinois historically noted for its proximity to the 1832 Battle of Stillman’s Run during the Black Hawk War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.