Donner Creek
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Donner Creek is a stream in the Sierra Nevada of California that drains Donner Lake and flows eastward toward the Truckee River.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Donner Creek canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1025571 — 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: Donner Creek Context triple: [Donner Lake, outflow, Donner Creek]
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A.
Lone Pine Creek
Lone Pine Creek is a mountain stream in California’s eastern Sierra Nevada that flows from the slopes of Mount Whitney through the Whitney Portal area down toward the town of Lone Pine.
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B.
Walker River
Walker River is a river in eastern California and western Nevada that flows from the Sierra Nevada through arid valleys into Walker Lake, providing vital water for ecosystems and agriculture in the region.
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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.
Incline Creek
Incline Creek is a mountain stream in the Lake Tahoe Basin that feeds into Lake Tahoe near Incline Village on the lake’s north shore.
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E.
Tokopah Creek
Tokopah Creek is a mountain stream in California’s Sierra Nevada that flows through Tokopah Valley in Sequoia National Park, known for its scenic cascades and alpine surroundings.
- 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: Donner Creek Target entity description: Donner Creek is a stream in the Sierra Nevada of California that drains Donner Lake and flows eastward toward the Truckee River.
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A.
Lone Pine Creek
Lone Pine Creek is a mountain stream in California’s eastern Sierra Nevada that flows from the slopes of Mount Whitney through the Whitney Portal area down toward the town of Lone Pine.
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B.
Walker River
Walker River is a river in eastern California and western Nevada that flows from the Sierra Nevada through arid valleys into Walker Lake, providing vital water for ecosystems and agriculture in the region.
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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.
Incline Creek
Incline Creek is a mountain stream in the Lake Tahoe Basin that feeds into Lake Tahoe near Incline Village on the lake’s north shore.
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E.
Tokopah Creek
Tokopah Creek is a mountain stream in California’s Sierra Nevada that flows through Tokopah Valley in Sequoia National Park, known for its scenic cascades and alpine surroundings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
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: Donner Creek Description of subject: Donner Creek is a stream in the Sierra Nevada of California that drains Donner Lake and flows eastward toward the Truckee River.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.