Holmes Run
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Holmes Run is a stream in Northern Virginia that flows through Fairfax County and into Alexandria, ultimately feeding into the Potomac River.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Holmes Run canonical | 9 |
| Holmes Run watershed | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1537165 — 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: Holmes Run Context triple: [Annandale, hasStream, Holmes Run]
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A.
Indian Creek
Indian Creek is a stream in Illinois historically associated with the 1832 Indian Creek massacre during the Black Hawk War.
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B.
Ellicott Creek
Ellicott Creek is a small waterway in western New York that flows through suburban communities including Amherst before joining Tonawanda Creek.
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C.
Six Mile Creek
Six Mile Creek is a small waterway running through Ithaca, New York, known for supplying the city’s drinking water and for its popular gorges, waterfalls, and swimming areas.
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D.
Chartiers Creek
Chartiers Creek is a tributary of the Ohio River in southwestern Pennsylvania that drains portions of Washington and Allegheny counties.
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E.
Plum Run
Plum Run is a small stream on the Gettysburg Battlefield in Pennsylvania, historically significant for flowing through key areas of the 1863 Civil War fighting.
- 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: Holmes Run Target entity description: Holmes Run is a stream in Northern Virginia that flows through Fairfax County and into Alexandria, ultimately feeding into the Potomac River.
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A.
Indian Creek
Indian Creek is a stream in Illinois historically associated with the 1832 Indian Creek massacre during the Black Hawk War.
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B.
Ellicott Creek
Ellicott Creek is a small waterway in western New York that flows through suburban communities including Amherst before joining Tonawanda Creek.
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C.
Six Mile Creek
Six Mile Creek is a small waterway running through Ithaca, New York, known for supplying the city’s drinking water and for its popular gorges, waterfalls, and swimming areas.
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D.
Chartiers Creek
Chartiers Creek is a tributary of the Ohio River in southwestern Pennsylvania that drains portions of Washington and Allegheny counties.
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E.
Plum Run
Plum Run is a small stream on the Gettysburg Battlefield in Pennsylvania, historically significant for flowing through key areas of the 1863 Civil War fighting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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: Holmes Run Description of subject: Holmes Run is a stream in Northern Virginia that flows through Fairfax County and into Alexandria, ultimately feeding into the Potomac River.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Holmes Run
linked to: Holmes Run
subject linked to:
likely named after a local landowner or family "Holmes"