Hannibal Creek
E64436
Hannibal Creek is a waterway after which the city of Hannibal, Missouri, is named.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hannibal Creek canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T110823 — 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: Hannibal Creek Context triple: [Hannibal, Missouri, namedAfter, Hannibal Creek]
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A.
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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B.
Waccabuc River
The Waccabuc River is a small tributary stream in southeastern New York that feeds into the Croton River within the Croton River watershed.
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C.
Little River
Little River is a waterway in Durham County, North Carolina, that serves as an important local stream and reservoir source for the surrounding communities.
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D.
Nolin River
Nolin River is a tributary of the Green River in central Kentucky known for its scenic waterways, recreational opportunities, and the Nolin River Lake formed by its dam.
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E.
Ward Creek
Ward Creek is a stream in the Lake Tahoe Basin that serves as one of the tributaries feeding freshwater into Lake Tahoe.
- 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: Hannibal Creek Target entity description: Hannibal Creek is a waterway after which the city of Hannibal, Missouri, is named.
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A.
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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B.
Waccabuc River
The Waccabuc River is a small tributary stream in southeastern New York that feeds into the Croton River within the Croton River watershed.
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C.
Little River
Little River is a waterway in Durham County, North Carolina, that serves as an important local stream and reservoir source for the surrounding communities.
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D.
Nolin River
Nolin River is a tributary of the Green River in central Kentucky known for its scenic waterways, recreational opportunities, and the Nolin River Lake formed by its dam.
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E.
Ward Creek
Ward Creek is a stream in the Lake Tahoe Basin that serves as one of the tributaries feeding freshwater into Lake Tahoe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
stream
ⓘ
watercourse ⓘ |
| hasNameOriginFor | Hannibal, Missouri ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Missouri
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| namedAfter |
Hannibal Creek
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
Hannibal (Carthaginian general) ⓘ
surface form:
Hannibal of Carthage
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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: Hannibal Creek Description of subject: Hannibal Creek is a waterway after which the city of Hannibal, Missouri, is named.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hannibal, Missouri
subject surface form:
Hannibal, Missouri