Eighteen Mile Creek
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Eighteen Mile Creek is a waterway in western New York State that flows through the city of Lockport before ultimately draining toward Lake Ontario.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eighteen Mile Creek canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2738131 — 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: Eighteen Mile Creek Context triple: [Lockport, New York, hasRiver, Eighteen Mile Creek]
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A.
Humber Creek
Humber Creek is a small urban watercourse in Toronto, Ontario, that flows through residential and park areas before joining the Humber River.
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B.
Wyee Creek
Wyee Creek is a watercourse in New South Wales, Australia, that serves as one of the tributaries feeding into Lake Macquarie.
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C.
Caledon Creek
Caledon Creek is a small watercourse in Ontario, Canada, that forms part of the Credit River watershed.
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D.
Sturgeon Creek
Sturgeon Creek is a smaller waterway in the northeastern United States that feeds into the Piscataqua River, contributing to its watershed and local aquatic ecosystem.
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E.
Fairview Creek
Fairview Creek is a small waterway in the Portland metropolitan area of Oregon that flows through the city of Gresham and into Fairview Lake.
- 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: Eighteen Mile Creek Target entity description: Eighteen Mile Creek is a waterway in western New York State that flows through the city of Lockport before ultimately draining toward Lake Ontario.
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A.
Humber Creek
Humber Creek is a small urban watercourse in Toronto, Ontario, that flows through residential and park areas before joining the Humber River.
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B.
Wyee Creek
Wyee Creek is a watercourse in New South Wales, Australia, that serves as one of the tributaries feeding into Lake Macquarie.
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C.
Caledon Creek
Caledon Creek is a small watercourse in Ontario, Canada, that forms part of the Credit River watershed.
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D.
Sturgeon Creek
Sturgeon Creek is a smaller waterway in the northeastern United States that feeds into the Piscataqua River, contributing to its watershed and local aquatic ecosystem.
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E.
Fairview Creek
Fairview Creek is a small waterway in the Portland metropolitan area of Oregon that flows through the city of Gresham and into Fairview Lake.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | creek ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Eighteenmile Creek (Niagara County)
ⓘ
linked to:
Eighteenmile Creek (New York)
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| basinCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| drainageBasin |
Lake Ontario basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Lake Ontario drainage basin
|
| flowsDirection | generally northward ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Lake Ontario ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
City of Lockport, New York
ⓘ
linked to:
City of Lockport
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| hasMouthElevation | approximately 74 meters ⓘ |
| hasName | Eighteen Mile Creek ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New York State
ⓘ
Niagara County, New York ⓘ Western New York ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Erie Canal
ⓘ
Lockport Cave and Underground Boat Ride ⓘ |
| mouthLocatedIn | Lake Ontario ⓘ |
| partOf |
Great Lakes watershed
ⓘ
linked to:
Great Lakes Basin
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| passesNear | Lockport, New York ⓘ |
| region | Great Lakes region ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Lake Ontario ⓘ |
| waterbodyType | freshwater 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: Eighteen Mile Creek Description of subject: Eighteen Mile Creek is a waterway in western New York State that flows through the city of Lockport before ultimately draining toward Lake Ontario.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Eighteen Mile Creek