Barker Slough
E328330
Barker Slough is a tidal freshwater channel in the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta of Northern California that serves as an important source of drinking and irrigation water.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Barker Slough canonical | 2 |
| Laird Slough | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3124573 — 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: Barker Slough Context triple: [North Bay Aqueduct, waterSource, Barker Slough]
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A.
Suisun Slough
Suisun Slough is a tidal waterway and wetland channel in Solano County, California, forming part of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta estuarine system.
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B.
Shark River Slough
Shark River Slough is the primary freshwater flow-way through the southern Everglades, carrying water, sediments, and nutrients that shape the park’s wetlands ecosystem.
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C.
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.
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D.
Taylor Slough
Taylor Slough is a major freshwater wetland drainage channel in the southern Everglades that plays a key role in the park’s hydrology and ecosystem.
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E.
Cosumnes River
The Cosumnes River is a relatively free-flowing river in Northern California known for its diverse riparian habitats and role in supporting regional wildlife and recreation.
- 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: Barker Slough Target entity description: Barker Slough is a tidal freshwater channel in the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta of Northern California that serves as an important source of drinking and irrigation water.
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A.
Suisun Slough
Suisun Slough is a tidal waterway and wetland channel in Solano County, California, forming part of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta estuarine system.
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B.
Shark River Slough
Shark River Slough is the primary freshwater flow-way through the southern Everglades, carrying water, sediments, and nutrients that shape the park’s wetlands ecosystem.
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C.
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.
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D.
Taylor Slough
Taylor Slough is a major freshwater wetland drainage channel in the southern Everglades that plays a key role in the park’s hydrology and ecosystem.
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E.
Cosumnes River
The Cosumnes River is a relatively free-flowing river in Northern California known for its diverse riparian habitats and role in supporting regional wildlife and recreation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
tidal freshwater channel
ⓘ
waterway ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| ecosystemType | delta freshwater channel ⓘ |
| environment | delta channel ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
freshwater conditions
ⓘ
important local water supply ⓘ subject to tidal influence ⓘ |
| hydrologicalSystem |
Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta system
ⓘ
linked to:
Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta
|
| isPartOf |
California water supply system
ⓘ
linked to:
California State Water System
|
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Northern California ⓘ Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta ⓘ
linked to:
Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locatedInHydrologicRegion |
San Francisco Bay–Delta hydrologic region
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco Estuary
|
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| tidal | true ⓘ |
| use |
agricultural water supply
ⓘ
municipal water supply ⓘ |
| usedFor |
drinking water supply
ⓘ
irrigation water supply ⓘ |
| waterSourceFor |
irrigated agriculture in its service area
ⓘ
nearby communities in Northern California ⓘ |
| waterType | freshwater ⓘ |
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: Barker Slough Description of subject: Barker Slough is a tidal freshwater channel in the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta of Northern California that serves as an important source of drinking and irrigation water.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Barker Slough