Big Cottonwood Creek
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Big Cottonwood Creek is a mountain stream in northern Utah that drains Big Cottonwood Canyon and flows through the Salt Lake Valley before joining the Jordan River.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Big Cottonwood Creek canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5009251 — 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: Big Cottonwood Creek Context triple: [Jordan River (Utah), hasTributary, Big Cottonwood Creek]
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Big Cottonwood Canyon
Big Cottonwood Canyon is a scenic glacially carved canyon near Salt Lake City, Utah, known for its outdoor recreation, including hiking, rock climbing, and access to major ski resorts.
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B.
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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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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Provo River
The Provo River is a major river in central Utah known for its scenic canyons, reservoirs, and popular fly-fishing and recreation opportunities.
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E.
Donner Creek
Donner Creek is a stream in the Sierra Nevada of California that drains Donner Lake and flows eastward toward the Truckee River.
- 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: Big Cottonwood Creek Target entity description: Big Cottonwood Creek is a mountain stream in northern Utah that drains Big Cottonwood Canyon and flows through the Salt Lake Valley before joining the Jordan River.
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A.
Big Cottonwood Canyon
Big Cottonwood Canyon is a scenic glacially carved canyon near Salt Lake City, Utah, known for its outdoor recreation, including hiking, rock climbing, and access to major ski resorts.
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B.
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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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.
Provo River
The Provo River is a major river in central Utah known for its scenic canyons, reservoirs, and popular fly-fishing and recreation opportunities.
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E.
Donner Creek
Donner Creek is a stream in the Sierra Nevada of California that drains Donner Lake and flows eastward toward the Truckee River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
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: Big Cottonwood Creek Description of subject: Big Cottonwood Creek is a mountain stream in northern Utah that drains Big Cottonwood Canyon and flows through the Salt Lake Valley before joining the Jordan River.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.