Penitencia Creek
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Penitencia Creek is a stream in Santa Clara County, California, that flows through Alum Rock Park and the eastern foothills of San José.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Penitencia Creek canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4490744 — 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: Penitencia Creek Context triple: [Alum Rock Park, hasLandscapeFeature, Penitencia Creek]
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A.
Cayster River
The Cayster River is an ancient river in western Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) historically significant for flowing near the classical city of Ephesus and into the Aegean Sea.
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B.
Dulce River
The Dulce River is a significant river in northwestern Argentina that supports regional agriculture and passes through arid and semi-arid landscapes before emptying into the Mar Chiquita salt lake.
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C.
Coata River
The Coata River is a watercourse in southern Peru that drains part of the Andean highlands and feeds into Lake Titicaca.
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D.
Renaico River
The Renaico River is a Chilean watercourse in south-central Chile that serves as one of the tributaries feeding into the larger Biobío River basin.
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E.
Hurtado River
The Hurtado River is a watercourse in Chile’s Coquimbo Region that flows through the Andean valleys of Limarí Province, contributing to local agriculture and feeding into the Limarí River system.
- 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: Penitencia Creek Target entity description: Penitencia Creek is a stream in Santa Clara County, California, that flows through Alum Rock Park and the eastern foothills of San José.
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A.
Cayster River
The Cayster River is an ancient river in western Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) historically significant for flowing near the classical city of Ephesus and into the Aegean Sea.
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B.
Dulce River
The Dulce River is a significant river in northwestern Argentina that supports regional agriculture and passes through arid and semi-arid landscapes before emptying into the Mar Chiquita salt lake.
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C.
Coata River
The Coata River is a watercourse in southern Peru that drains part of the Andean highlands and feeds into Lake Titicaca.
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D.
Renaico River
The Renaico River is a Chilean watercourse in south-central Chile that serves as one of the tributaries feeding into the larger Biobío River basin.
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E.
Hurtado River
The Hurtado River is a watercourse in Chile’s Coquimbo Region that flows through the Andean valleys of Limarí Province, contributing to local agriculture and feeding into the Limarí River system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
creek
ⓘ
stream ⓘ |
| associatedPark | Alum Rock Park ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| city | San José ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county | Santa Clara County ⓘ |
| crosses | Penitencia Creek Road ⓘ |
| ecosystemType | riparian habitat ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Alum Rock Park
ⓘ
eastern foothills of San José ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | Spanish language ⓘ |
| hasVegetation |
riparian trees
ⓘ
shrubs ⓘ |
| hasWildlife |
amphibians
ⓘ
birds ⓘ fish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Diablo Range foothills
ⓘ
linked to:
Diablo Range
San José, California ⓘ
linked to:
San Jose
Santa Clara County, California ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Clara County
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | penitence ⓘ |
| partOf | Coyote Creek watershed ⓘ |
| region | Santa Clara Valley ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| tributaryOf | Coyote Creek ⓘ |
| usedFor |
hiking
ⓘ
nature observation ⓘ recreation ⓘ |
| watercourseType | perennial stream (in lower reaches) ⓘ |
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: Penitencia Creek Description of subject: Penitencia Creek is a stream in Santa Clara County, California, that flows through Alum Rock Park and the eastern foothills of San José.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.