Six Mile Creek
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Six Mile Creek is a small waterway running through Ithaca, New York, known for supplying the city’s drinking water and for its popular gorges, waterfalls, and swimming areas.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Six Mile Creek canonical | 8 |
| Six Mile Creek watershed | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T55924 — 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: Six Mile Creek Context triple: [Ithaca, New York, United States, hasRiver, Six Mile Creek]
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A.
Glenbrook Creek
Glenbrook Creek is a small stream in Nevada that feeds into Lake Tahoe near the historic community of Glenbrook on the lake’s eastern shore.
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B.
Edgewood Creek
Edgewood Creek is a small Sierra Nevada stream that feeds into Lake Tahoe near Stateline, Nevada, flowing through forested and meadow areas and supporting local wildlife and watershed health.
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C.
Wapsinonoc Creek
Wapsinonoc Creek is a small stream in eastern Iowa that flows through and helps drain the area around the town of West Branch.
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D.
River Medlock
The River Medlock is a small river in Greater Manchester, England, that flows through central Manchester and has played a significant role in the city’s industrial and urban development.
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E.
Strawberry Creek
Strawberry Creek is a small natural waterway running through the University of California, Berkeley campus and the city of Berkeley, California.
- 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: Six Mile Creek Target entity description: Six Mile Creek is a small waterway running through Ithaca, New York, known for supplying the city’s drinking water and for its popular gorges, waterfalls, and swimming areas.
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A.
Glenbrook Creek
Glenbrook Creek is a small stream in Nevada that feeds into Lake Tahoe near the historic community of Glenbrook on the lake’s eastern shore.
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B.
Edgewood Creek
Edgewood Creek is a small Sierra Nevada stream that feeds into Lake Tahoe near Stateline, Nevada, flowing through forested and meadow areas and supporting local wildlife and watershed health.
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C.
Wapsinonoc Creek
Wapsinonoc Creek is a small stream in eastern Iowa that flows through and helps drain the area around the town of West Branch.
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D.
River Medlock
The River Medlock is a small river in Greater Manchester, England, that flows through central Manchester and has played a significant role in the city’s industrial and urban development.
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E.
Strawberry Creek
Strawberry Creek is a small natural waterway running through the University of California, Berkeley campus and the city of Berkeley, California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
creek
ⓘ
river ⓘ waterway ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| ecosystemType | temperate forest stream ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Cayuga Inlet ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Ithaca, New York, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Ithaca
|
| hasBasinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasFeature |
dams
ⓘ
gorge trails ⓘ reservoirs ⓘ |
| hasRecreationArea |
Mulholland Wildflower Preserve
ⓘ
Potters Falls area ⓘ Six Mile Creek Natural Area ⓘ |
| hasRisk |
dangerous swimming conditions
ⓘ
flash flooding ⓘ |
| hasUse |
fishing
ⓘ
photography ⓘ |
| hasVegetation | riparian forest ⓘ |
| hasWaterfall |
Businessman’s Lunch Falls
ⓘ
Potters Falls ⓘ |
| hasWildlife |
amphibians
ⓘ
aquatic invertebrates ⓘ birds ⓘ freshwater fish ⓘ |
| knownFor |
gorges
ⓘ
recreation ⓘ scenic views ⓘ swimming areas ⓘ waterfalls ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Ithaca, New York, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Ithaca, New York
New York ⓘ
surface form:
New York State
Tompkins County ⓘ
surface form:
Tompkins County, New York
|
| managedBy |
Ithaca, New York, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Ithaca
|
| near | Cornell University ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cayuga Lake watershed
ⓘ
Ithaca municipal water system ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
local swimming regulations
ⓘ
seasonal access restrictions ⓘ |
| supplies | drinking water for Ithaca, New York ⓘ |
| usedFor |
hiking
ⓘ
nature observation ⓘ public water supply ⓘ swimming ⓘ |
| waterSourceFor |
Ithaca municipal water system
ⓘ
surface form:
Ithaca water treatment plant
|
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: Six Mile Creek Description of subject: Six Mile Creek is a small waterway running through Ithaca, New York, known for supplying the city’s drinking water and for its popular gorges, waterfalls, and swimming areas.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Six Mile Creek watershed
this entity surface form:
Six Mile Creek watershed
this entity surface form:
Six Mile Creek watershed
this entity surface form:
Six Mile Creek watershed