Stony Creek
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Stony Creek is a smaller stream in North Carolina that feeds into the Haw River as part of its watershed system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stony Creek canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6818283 — 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: Stony Creek Context triple: [Haw River, hasTributary, Stony Creek]
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A.
Stony Creek
Stony Creek is a stream in Northern California that flows through the Coast Ranges and agricultural valleys before joining the Sacramento River.
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B.
Hunting Creek
Hunting Creek is a smaller stream in North Carolina that feeds into the Yadkin River as one of its tributaries.
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C.
Onion Creek
Onion Creek is a stream in Central Texas known for flowing through the Austin area and contributing to local parks, greenbelts, and floodplains.
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D.
Fifth Creek
Fifth Creek is a small urban watercourse in the eastern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia, that feeds into the River Torrens.
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E.
Well Creek
Well Creek is a waterway associated with the locality of Upwell in England, forming part of the region’s drainage and navigation network.
- 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: Stony Creek Target entity description: Stony Creek is a smaller stream in North Carolina that feeds into the Haw River as part of its watershed system.
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A.
Stony Creek
Stony Creek is a stream in Northern California that flows through the Coast Ranges and agricultural valleys before joining the Sacramento River.
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B.
Hunting Creek
Hunting Creek is a smaller stream in North Carolina that feeds into the Yadkin River as one of its tributaries.
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C.
Onion Creek
Onion Creek is a stream in Central Texas known for flowing through the Austin area and contributing to local parks, greenbelts, and floodplains.
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D.
Fifth Creek
Fifth Creek is a small urban watercourse in the eastern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia, that feeds into the River Torrens.
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E.
Well Creek
Well Creek is a waterway associated with the locality of Upwell in England, forming part of the region’s drainage and navigation network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | stream ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| feedsInto | Haw River ⓘ |
| isPartOf | surface waters of North Carolina ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alamance County, North Carolina
ⓘ
Guilford County, North Carolina ⓘ
linked to:
Guilford County
North Carolina ⓘ |
| locatedInHydrologicalSystem |
Cape Fear River basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Cape Fear River
|
| mouthOf | Haw River ⓘ |
| partOf |
Haw River watershed
ⓘ
linked to:
Haw River
|
| watercourseType | freshwater stream ⓘ |
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: Stony Creek Description of subject: Stony Creek is a smaller stream in North Carolina that feeds into the Haw River as part of its watershed system.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.