Crum Creek
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Crum Creek is a small stream in southeastern Pennsylvania that flows through the Swarthmore College campus and surrounding communities before emptying into the Delaware River.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Little Crum Creek | 3 |
| Crum Creek canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2255878 — 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: Crum Creek Context triple: [Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, locatedOn, Crum Creek]
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A.
Rush Creek
Rush Creek is a significant Sierra Nevada stream in California that flows into Mono Lake and supports important riparian and aquatic ecosystems.
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B.
Taylor Creek
Taylor Creek is a natural waterway in Colorado known for its proximity to popular hiking routes and scenic mountain landscapes.
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C.
Cottonwood Creek
Cottonwood Creek is a stream in Northern California that drains the eastern slopes of the Coast Ranges before joining the Sacramento River.
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D.
Hannibal Creek
Hannibal Creek is a waterway after which the city of Hannibal, Missouri, is named.
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E.
Big Creek
Big Creek is a stream in Kansas that flows through Ellis and serves as a local natural waterway in the region.
- 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: Crum Creek Target entity description: Crum Creek is a small stream in southeastern Pennsylvania that flows through the Swarthmore College campus and surrounding communities before emptying into the Delaware River.
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A.
Rush Creek
Rush Creek is a significant Sierra Nevada stream in California that flows into Mono Lake and supports important riparian and aquatic ecosystems.
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B.
Taylor Creek
Taylor Creek is a natural waterway in Colorado known for its proximity to popular hiking routes and scenic mountain landscapes.
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C.
Cottonwood Creek
Cottonwood Creek is a stream in Northern California that drains the eastern slopes of the Coast Ranges before joining the Sacramento River.
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D.
Hannibal Creek
Hannibal Creek is a waterway after which the city of Hannibal, Missouri, is named.
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E.
Big Creek
Big Creek is a stream in Kansas that flows through Ellis and serves as a local natural waterway in the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
river
ⓘ
stream ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Crum Woods NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Swarthmore College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crossedBy |
Baltimore Pike
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
SEPTA Media/Wawa Line NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| environmentalConcern |
streambank erosion
ⓘ
urban runoff ⓘ |
| flowsDirection | generally southward ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Delaware River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Nether Providence Township, Pennsylvania
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Newtown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ Swarthmore College campus NERFINISHED ⓘ Swarthmore, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ Upper Providence Township, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ Willistown Township, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formsReservoir | Springton Reservoir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBridge | Crum Creek Viaduct NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDam | Springton Reservoir dam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEcosystem |
freshwater stream habitat
ⓘ
riparian forest ⓘ |
| hasFeature | Crum Woods NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTributary | Darby Creek (indirect regional tributary system) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Chester County, Pennsylvania
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Delaware County, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ Pennsylvania ⓘ southeastern Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mouthLocation |
Eddystone, Pennsylvania
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
near Chester, Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| near |
Chester, Pennsylvania
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eddystone, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ Springfield, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Piedmont Upland physiographic province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Media, Pennsylvania
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recreation |
birdwatching
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ hiking ⓘ |
| region | Delaware Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| riverSystem | Delaware River watershed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| usedFor | municipal water supply ⓘ |
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: Crum Creek Description of subject: Crum Creek is a small stream in southeastern Pennsylvania that flows through the Swarthmore College campus and surrounding communities before emptying into the Delaware River.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Little Crum Creek
this entity surface form:
Little Crum Creek
this entity surface form:
Little Crum Creek