Willow Creek
E511133
Willow Creek is a stream in California’s Sierra Nevada region that serves as the primary outlet for Bass Lake and flows through Madera County.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Willow Creek canonical | 2 |
| Willow Creek (California) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2768392 — 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: Willow Creek Context triple: [Bass Lake, watercourse, Willow Creek]
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A.
Horsetail Creek
Horsetail Creek is the mountain stream in the Columbia River Gorge that feeds the scenic Horsetail Falls in Oregon.
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B.
Rush Creek
Rush Creek is a significant Sierra Nevada stream in California that flows into Mono Lake and supports important riparian and aquatic ecosystems.
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C.
Woods Creek
Woods Creek is a small waterway in Tuolumne County, California, known for flowing through the historic Gold Rush town of Jamestown.
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D.
Clear Creek
Clear Creek is a mountain stream in Colorado that became a key corridor for early mining camps and settlements during the Colorado Gold Rush.
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E.
Clear Creek
Clear Creek is a stream in Northern California that feeds into the Sacramento River and is known for its scenic canyon, salmon habitat, and recreational opportunities.
- 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: Willow Creek Target entity description: Willow Creek is a stream in California’s Sierra Nevada region that serves as the primary outlet for Bass Lake and flows through Madera County.
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A.
Horsetail Creek
Horsetail Creek is the mountain stream in the Columbia River Gorge that feeds the scenic Horsetail Falls in Oregon.
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B.
Rush Creek
Rush Creek is a significant Sierra Nevada stream in California that flows into Mono Lake and supports important riparian and aquatic ecosystems.
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C.
Woods Creek
Woods Creek is a small waterway in Tuolumne County, California, known for flowing through the historic Gold Rush town of Jamestown.
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D.
Clear Creek
Clear Creek is a stream in Northern California that feeds into the Sacramento River and is known for its scenic canyon, salmon habitat, and recreational opportunities.
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E.
Clear Creek
Clear Creek is a mountain stream in Colorado that became a key corridor for early mining camps and settlements during the Colorado Gold Rush.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | stream ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county | Madera County, California ⓘ |
| drainageBasin |
San Joaquin River basin
ⓘ
linked to:
San Joaquin River Basin
|
| flowsThrough | Madera County, California ⓘ |
| hasBasinCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Madera County, California ⓘ Sierra Nevada ⓘ |
| locatedInProtectedArea | Sierra National Forest ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| mouthLocatedIn | Madera County, California ⓘ |
| primaryOutflowOf | Bass Lake ⓘ |
| region |
Sierra Nevada, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Sierra Nevada
|
| source | Bass Lake ⓘ |
| sourceRegion | Sierra Nevada ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| tributaryOf | San Joaquin River ⓘ |
| watercourseType | 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: Willow Creek Description of subject: Willow Creek is a stream in California’s Sierra Nevada region that serves as the primary outlet for Bass Lake and flows through Madera County.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Willow Creek