Curtis Creek
E415515
Curtis Creek is a tidal waterway in Maryland that flows into the Patapsco River near the Baltimore area, serving both industrial and recreational uses.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Curtis Creek canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2124241 — 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: Curtis Creek Context triple: [Glen Burnie, Maryland, hasNearbyWaterBody, Curtis Creek]
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A.
Sullivans Creek
Sullivans Creek is an urban waterway in Canberra, Australia, that drains parts of the city and flows into Lake Burley Griffin.
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B.
Haymarsh Creek
Haymarsh Creek is a smaller stream in Michigan that feeds into the Muskegon River as one of its tributaries.
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C.
Mannering Creek
Mannering Creek is a watercourse in New South Wales, Australia, that serves as one of the natural tributaries feeding into Lake Macquarie.
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D.
Cockle Creek
Cockle Creek is a watercourse in New South Wales, Australia, that serves as a significant tributary within the Lake Macquarie catchment.
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E.
Blackwood Creek
Blackwood Creek is a stream in the Lake Tahoe Basin of the Sierra Nevada that serves as one of the lake’s natural tributaries.
- 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: Curtis Creek Target entity description: Curtis Creek is a tidal waterway in Maryland that flows into the Patapsco River near the Baltimore area, serving both industrial and recreational uses.
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A.
Sullivans Creek
Sullivans Creek is an urban waterway in Canberra, Australia, that drains parts of the city and flows into Lake Burley Griffin.
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B.
Haymarsh Creek
Haymarsh Creek is a smaller stream in Michigan that feeds into the Muskegon River as one of its tributaries.
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C.
Mannering Creek
Mannering Creek is a watercourse in New South Wales, Australia, that serves as one of the natural tributaries feeding into Lake Macquarie.
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D.
Cockle Creek
Cockle Creek is a watercourse in New South Wales, Australia, that serves as a significant tributary within the Lake Macquarie catchment.
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E.
Blackwood Creek
Blackwood Creek is a stream in the Lake Tahoe Basin of the Sierra Nevada that serves as one of the lake’s natural tributaries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
river tributary
ⓘ
tidal creek ⓘ waterway ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
industrial areas
ⓘ
residential areas ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| flowsInto | Patapsco River ⓘ |
| hasPortFacility |
industrial piers
ⓘ
marinas ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Anne Arundel County, Maryland
ⓘ
linked to:
Anne Arundel County
Baltimore City, Maryland ⓘ
linked to:
Baltimore
Maryland ⓘ |
| mouthElevation | sea level ⓘ |
| mouthLocation | Patapsco River ⓘ |
| navigable | yes ⓘ |
| near |
Baltimore, Maryland
ⓘ
linked to:
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
|
| partOf |
Chesapeake Bay watershed
ⓘ
linked to:
Chesapeake Bay
Patapsco River watershed ⓘ
linked to:
Patapsco River
|
| region |
Baltimore metropolitan area
ⓘ
linked to:
Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area
|
| tributaryOf | Patapsco River ⓘ |
| usedFor |
boating
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ shipping access ⓘ |
| uses |
industrial use
ⓘ
recreational use ⓘ |
| waterbodyType | tidal waterway ⓘ |
| waterSalinity | brackish ⓘ |
| waterwayFunction | access channel to industrial facilities on the Patapsco River ⓘ |
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: Curtis Creek Description of subject: Curtis Creek is a tidal waterway in Maryland that flows into the Patapsco River near the Baltimore area, serving both industrial and recreational uses.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.