Matadero Creek
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Matadero Creek is a small waterway in Palo Alto, California, that flows through urban areas and wetlands before emptying into the San Francisco Bay.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matadero Creek canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5277850 — 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: Matadero Creek Context triple: [Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve, hasPart, Matadero Creek]
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A.
San Luis Creek
San Luis Creek is a stream in central California that serves as a primary tributary feeding the San Luis Reservoir in Merced County.
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B.
Calero Creek
Calero Creek is a stream in Santa Clara County, California, that drains the foothills near Calero Reservoir and flows northward through San Jose before joining the Guadalupe River.
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C.
Alhambra Creek
Alhambra Creek is a small urban waterway running through Martinez in Contra Costa County, California, known for its role in local flood control and habitat restoration efforts.
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D.
Los Gatos Creek
Los Gatos Creek is a stream in Santa Clara County, California, that flows through the town of Los Gatos and parts of the South Bay before joining the Guadalupe River.
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E.
Guadalupe Creek
Guadalupe Creek is a smaller stream in California that feeds into the Guadalupe River, contributing to the region’s watershed and local aquatic habitats.
- 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: Matadero Creek Target entity description: Matadero Creek is a small waterway in Palo Alto, California, that flows through urban areas and wetlands before emptying into the San Francisco Bay.
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A.
San Luis Creek
San Luis Creek is a stream in central California that serves as a primary tributary feeding the San Luis Reservoir in Merced County.
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B.
Calero Creek
Calero Creek is a stream in Santa Clara County, California, that drains the foothills near Calero Reservoir and flows northward through San Jose before joining the Guadalupe River.
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C.
Alhambra Creek
Alhambra Creek is a small urban waterway running through Martinez in Contra Costa County, California, known for its role in local flood control and habitat restoration efforts.
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D.
Los Gatos Creek
Los Gatos Creek is a stream in Santa Clara County, California, that flows through the town of Los Gatos and parts of the South Bay before joining the Guadalupe River.
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E.
Guadalupe Creek
Guadalupe Creek is a smaller stream in California that feeds into the Guadalupe River, contributing to the region’s watershed and local aquatic habitats.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | creek ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course (historical alignment) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Santa Clara County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crosses |
Bayshore Freeway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Highway 101 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ecosystemType | riparian corridor ⓘ |
| environmentalIssue |
flooding risk during heavy storms
ⓘ
urban runoff pollution ⓘ |
| flowsInto | San Francisco Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
urban areas of Palo Alto
ⓘ
wetlands near the San Francisco Bay ⓘ |
| hasBridge |
East Bayshore Road bridge
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Embarcadero Road bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTributary | Permanente Creek diversion channel (seasonal/engineered) ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Palo Alto, California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
San Francisco Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ South San Francisco Bay shoreline zone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| managedBy | Santa Clara Valley Water District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mouthLocation | San Francisco Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near |
Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stanford University vicinity ⓘ |
| partOf | San Francisquito Creek watershed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| subjectOf | local flood control projects ⓘ |
| usedFor | urban stormwater drainage ⓘ |
| watercourseType | perennial 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: Matadero Creek Description of subject: Matadero Creek is a small waterway in Palo Alto, California, that flows through urban areas and wetlands before emptying into the San Francisco Bay.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.