Dry Creek (Yolo County)
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Dry Creek in Yolo County is a small stream in Northern California that serves as a tributary within the Putah Creek watershed.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dry Creek (Yolo County) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6130116 — 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: Dry Creek (Yolo County) Context triple: [Putah Creek, hasTributary, Dry Creek (Yolo County)]
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A.
Corte Madera Creek
Corte Madera Creek is a waterway in Marin County, California, that flows through several communities before emptying into San Francisco Bay.
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B.
Dry Creek
Dry Creek is a stream in Sonoma County, California, that lends its name to the surrounding Dry Creek Valley wine region.
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C.
Lee Vining Creek
Lee Vining Creek is a Sierra Nevada stream in California that flows east into Mono Lake, providing a key source of freshwater to the Mono Basin ecosystem.
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D.
Snow Creek (California)
Snow Creek is a small mountain stream in California that serves as a tributary to the Whitewater River, contributing runoff from the San Bernardino Mountains desert slopes.
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E.
Grass Valley Creek
Grass Valley Creek is a smaller watercourse in Southern California that feeds into the Mojave River within the arid Mojave Desert region.
- 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: Dry Creek (Yolo County) Target entity description: Dry Creek in Yolo County is a small stream in Northern California that serves as a tributary within the Putah Creek watershed.
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A.
Corte Madera Creek
Corte Madera Creek is a waterway in Marin County, California, that flows through several communities before emptying into San Francisco Bay.
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B.
Dry Creek
Dry Creek is a stream in Sonoma County, California, that lends its name to the surrounding Dry Creek Valley wine region.
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C.
Lee Vining Creek
Lee Vining Creek is a Sierra Nevada stream in California that flows east into Mono Lake, providing a key source of freshwater to the Mono Basin ecosystem.
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D.
Snow Creek (California)
Snow Creek is a small mountain stream in California that serves as a tributary to the Whitewater River, contributing runoff from the San Bernardino Mountains desert slopes.
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E.
Grass Valley Creek
Grass Valley Creek is a smaller watercourse in Southern California that feeds into the Mojave River within the arid Mojave Desert region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | stream ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| flowsThrough |
Yolo County, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Yolo County
|
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Northern California ⓘ Yolo County, California ⓘ
linked to:
Yolo County
|
| partOf |
Putah Creek watershed
ⓘ
linked to:
Putah Creek
|
| region | Sacramento Valley ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| tributaryOf | Putah Creek ⓘ |
| watercourseType | intermittent 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: Dry Creek (Yolo County) Description of subject: Dry Creek in Yolo County is a small stream in Northern California that serves as a tributary within the Putah Creek watershed.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.