Silver Creek (Santa Clara County)
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Silver Creek is a stream in Santa Clara County, California, that flows through the eastern foothills of the Santa Clara Valley before joining the larger Coyote Creek watershed.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Silver Creek (Santa Clara County) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4952426 — 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: Silver Creek (Santa Clara County) Context triple: [Coyote Creek (Santa Clara County), hasTributary, Silver Creek (Santa Clara County)]
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A.
Coyote Creek (Santa Clara County)
Coyote Creek in Santa Clara County is a major stream in California’s South Bay that flows through the Diablo Range and San Jose before emptying into the southern end of San Francisco Bay.
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B.
Boulder Creek, California
Boulder Creek, California is a small unincorporated community in the Santa Cruz Mountains known as a gateway to Big Basin Redwoods State Park and the surrounding redwood forests.
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C.
Corte Madera Creek
Corte Madera Creek is a waterway in Marin County, California, that flows through several communities before emptying into San Francisco Bay.
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D.
San Mateo Creek
San Mateo Creek is a waterway in San Mateo County, California, that drains the Crystal Springs Reservoir and flows toward San Francisco Bay.
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E.
Silver Lake, California
Silver Lake, California is a small lakeside community in Alpine County known for its scenic mountain setting and outdoor recreation opportunities such as fishing, boating, and hiking.
- 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: Silver Creek (Santa Clara County) Target entity description: Silver Creek is a stream in Santa Clara County, California, that flows through the eastern foothills of the Santa Clara Valley before joining the larger Coyote Creek watershed.
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A.
Coyote Creek (Santa Clara County)
Coyote Creek in Santa Clara County is a major stream in California’s South Bay that flows through the Diablo Range and San Jose before emptying into the southern end of San Francisco Bay.
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B.
Boulder Creek, California
Boulder Creek, California is a small unincorporated community in the Santa Cruz Mountains known as a gateway to Big Basin Redwoods State Park and the surrounding redwood forests.
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C.
Corte Madera Creek
Corte Madera Creek is a waterway in Marin County, California, that flows through several communities before emptying into San Francisco Bay.
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D.
San Mateo Creek
San Mateo Creek is a waterway in San Mateo County, California, that drains the Crystal Springs Reservoir and flows toward San Francisco Bay.
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E.
Silver Lake, California
Silver Lake, California is a small lakeside community in Alpine County known for its scenic mountain setting and outdoor recreation opportunities such as fishing, boating, and hiking.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
stream
ⓘ
watercourse ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Santa Clara County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | Coyote Creek drainage ⓘ |
| environment | foothill stream ⓘ |
| flowsDirection | northwest ⓘ |
| flowsNear | San Jose, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsThrough | eastern foothills of the Santa Clara Valley ⓘ |
| hasWatershed | Silver Creek sub-basin of Coyote Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hydrologicalSystem | Coyote Creek watershed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Northern California ⓘ San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ Santa Clara County ⓘ
surface form:
Santa Clara County, California
Santa Clara Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| mouthLocatedIn | Santa Clara County, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| naturalFeatureOf | Santa Clara Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Coyote Creek watershed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | South Bay (San Francisco Bay Area) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| tributaryOf | Coyote Creek (Santa Clara County) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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: Silver Creek (Santa Clara County) Description of subject: Silver Creek is a stream in Santa Clara County, California, that flows through the eastern foothills of the Santa Clara Valley before joining the larger Coyote Creek watershed.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.