Onondaga Creek
E211095
Onondaga Creek is a stream in central New York that flows north through the city of Syracuse into Onondaga Lake.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Onondaga Creek canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1057947 — 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: Onondaga Creek Context triple: [Syracuse, hasRiver, Onondaga Creek]
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A.
Bronx River
The Bronx River is a freshwater river in southeastern New York that flows south through Westchester County into the Bronx, historically significant as an urban waterway and the focus of major conservation and restoration efforts.
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B.
Saw Mill River
Saw Mill River is a tributary of the Hudson River in southeastern New York, flowing through urban and suburban communities in Westchester County.
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C.
Titicus River
The Titicus River is a tributary stream in southwestern Connecticut and southeastern New York that feeds into the Croton River within the New York City water supply system.
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D.
Rondout Creek
Rondout Creek is a significant stream in southeastern New York that flows through the Catskill region and the city of Kingston before joining the Hudson River.
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E.
Pocantico River
The Pocantico River is a small river in Westchester County, New York, that flows through the Rockefeller family’s historic estate and into the Hudson River near Sleepy Hollow.
- 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: Onondaga Creek Target entity description: Onondaga Creek is a stream in central New York that flows north through the city of Syracuse into Onondaga Lake.
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A.
Bronx River
The Bronx River is a freshwater river in southeastern New York that flows south through Westchester County into the Bronx, historically significant as an urban waterway and the focus of major conservation and restoration efforts.
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B.
Saw Mill River
Saw Mill River is a tributary of the Hudson River in southeastern New York, flowing through urban and suburban communities in Westchester County.
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C.
Titicus River
The Titicus River is a tributary stream in southwestern Connecticut and southeastern New York that feeds into the Croton River within the New York City water supply system.
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D.
Rondout Creek
Rondout Creek is a significant stream in southeastern New York that flows through the Catskill region and the city of Kingston before joining the Hudson River.
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E.
Pocantico River
The Pocantico River is a small river in Westchester County, New York, that flows through the Rockefeller family’s historic estate and into the Hudson River near Sleepy Hollow.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
river
ⓘ
stream ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Onondaga Lake cleanup efforts
ⓘ
flood control projects in Syracuse ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| crosses | downtown Syracuse ⓘ |
| environmentalIssue |
stormwater runoff
ⓘ
urban pollution ⓘ |
| flowDirection | north ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Onondaga Lake ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
City of Syracuse
ⓘ
linked to:
Syracuse
|
| hasFeature |
channelized sections in Syracuse
ⓘ
natural riparian areas upstream ⓘ |
| hasUse |
recreation
ⓘ
urban drainage ⓘ wildlife habitat ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | Onondaga Creek watershed management plans ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Central New York
ⓘ
New York ⓘ Onondaga County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Onondaga Nation territory ⓘ |
| mouthLocation | Onondaga Lake ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Onondaga people
ⓘ
linked to:
Onondaga nation
|
| partOf |
Onondaga Lake watershed
ⓘ
linked to:
Onondaga Creek–Seneca River watershed
|
| passesThrough |
Syracuse, New York
ⓘ
linked to:
Syracuse
|
| region |
Upstate New York
ⓘ
linked to:
Upstate New York (broad sense)
|
| tributaryOf | Onondaga Lake ⓘ |
| 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: Onondaga Creek Description of subject: Onondaga Creek is a stream in central New York that flows north through the city of Syracuse into Onondaga Lake.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.