Thompson Creek (Santa Clara County)
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Thompson Creek is a small stream in Santa Clara County, California, that flows through the eastern foothills of San Jose as a tributary of Coyote Creek.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thompson Creek (Santa Clara County) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4952427 — 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: Thompson Creek (Santa Clara County) Context triple: [Coyote Creek (Santa Clara County), hasTributary, Thompson Creek (Santa Clara County)]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Bixby Creek
Bixby Creek is a coastal stream in Big Sur, California, known primarily as the dramatic canyon spanned by the iconic Bixby Creek Bridge along Highway 1.
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E.
Adobe Creek
Adobe Creek is a small stream in Santa Clara County, California, historically significant for inspiring the name of the software company Adobe Inc.
- 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: Thompson Creek (Santa Clara County) Target entity description: Thompson Creek is a small stream in Santa Clara County, California, that flows through the eastern foothills of San Jose as a tributary of Coyote Creek.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Bixby Creek
Bixby Creek is a coastal stream in Big Sur, California, known primarily as the dramatic canyon spanned by the iconic Bixby Creek Bridge along Highway 1.
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E.
Adobe Creek
Adobe Creek is a small stream in Santa Clara County, California, historically significant for inspiring the name of the software company Adobe Inc.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
creek
ⓘ
stream ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| environmentType |
foothill stream
ⓘ
urban stream ⓘ |
| flowsInDirection | generally northward ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
eastern foothills of San Jose
ⓘ
open space and foothill areas in East San Jose ⓘ residential areas of East San Jose ⓘ |
| hasBasinCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasHydrologicalSystem |
San Francisco Bay hydrological system
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco Estuary
|
| hasJurisdiction | Santa Clara Valley Water District ⓘ |
| hasMouthIn | Coyote Creek (Santa Clara County) ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
San Jose, California ⓘ
linked to:
San Jose
Santa Clara County, California ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Clara County
|
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Santa Clara Valley ⓘ |
| locatedInWatershed | Coyote Creek watershed ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
East San Jose
ⓘ
Evergreen district, San Jose ⓘ
linked to:
East San Jose
|
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| partOf |
Coyote Creek (Santa Clara County) hydrological network
ⓘ
Santa Clara County drainage system ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Clara County flood-control system
|
| tributaryOf | Coyote Creek (Santa Clara County) ⓘ |
| watercourseType | perennial or intermittent 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: Thompson Creek (Santa Clara County) Description of subject: Thompson Creek is a small stream in Santa Clara County, California, that flows through the eastern foothills of San Jose as a tributary of Coyote Creek.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.