Clear Creek (Iowa)
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Clear Creek (Iowa) is a stream in eastern Iowa that flows through Johnson and Iowa counties before joining the Iowa River.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clear Creek (Iowa) canonical | 2 |
| Clear Creek area of Iowa | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3956928 — 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: Clear Creek (Iowa) Context triple: [Iowa River, hasLeftTributary, Clear Creek (Iowa)]
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A.
Clear Creek Trail (Iowa)
Clear Creek Trail (Iowa) is a recreational multi-use rail-trail in Iowa that follows the Clear Creek corridor, offering opportunities for walking, running, and cycling through natural and semi-urban landscapes.
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B.
Salt Creek (Illinois)
Salt Creek is a tributary stream of the Des Plaines River in northeastern Illinois that flows through several suburbs of Chicago, including Elmhurst.
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C.
Somonauk Creek
Somonauk Creek is a stream in northern Illinois that serves as a tributary to the Fox River, flowing through rural and small-town landscapes.
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D.
Honey Creek, Iowa
Honey Creek, Iowa is a small unincorporated rural community located in Pottawattamie County in western Iowa.
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E.
Spring Creek (stream)
Spring Creek (stream) is a waterway in Pennsylvania known for its natural setting and role in the local watershed and outdoor recreation.
- 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: Clear Creek (Iowa) Target entity description: Clear Creek (Iowa) is a stream in eastern Iowa that flows through Johnson and Iowa counties before joining the Iowa River.
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A.
Clear Creek Trail (Iowa)
Clear Creek Trail (Iowa) is a recreational multi-use rail-trail in Iowa that follows the Clear Creek corridor, offering opportunities for walking, running, and cycling through natural and semi-urban landscapes.
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B.
Salt Creek (Illinois)
Salt Creek is a tributary stream of the Des Plaines River in northeastern Illinois that flows through several suburbs of Chicago, including Elmhurst.
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C.
Somonauk Creek
Somonauk Creek is a stream in northern Illinois that serves as a tributary to the Fox River, flowing through rural and small-town landscapes.
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D.
Honey Creek, Iowa
Honey Creek, Iowa is a small unincorporated rural community located in Pottawattamie County in western Iowa.
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E.
Spring Creek (stream)
Spring Creek (stream) is a waterway in Pennsylvania known for its natural setting and role in the local watershed and outdoor recreation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
river
ⓘ
stream ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| drainageBasin | Mississippi River basin ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Iowa River ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Iowa County, Iowa
ⓘ
Johnson County, Iowa ⓘ |
| hasName | Clear Creek ⓘ |
| hydrologicalOrder | tributary ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Iowa
ⓘ
eastern Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity |
Iowa County, Iowa
ⓘ
Johnson County, Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| mouthLocatedIn |
Iowa
ⓘ
Johnson County, Iowa ⓘ |
| mouthOfWaterBody | Iowa River ⓘ |
| partOf | watershed of the Iowa River ⓘ |
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| riverSystem | Iowa River ⓘ |
| state | Iowa ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Iowa River ⓘ |
| USGSFeatureClass | Stream ⓘ |
| watercourseType | perennial 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: Clear Creek (Iowa) Description of subject: Clear Creek (Iowa) is a stream in eastern Iowa that flows through Johnson and Iowa counties before joining the Iowa River.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Clear Creek (Iowa)