Stevens Creek
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Stevens Creek is a stream in California’s Santa Clara County that flows from the Santa Cruz Mountains through several communities before emptying into the San Francisco Bay.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stevens Creek canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7431330 — 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: Stevens Creek Context triple: [Stevens Creek Trail, follows, Stevens Creek]
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A.
San Mateo Creek
San Mateo Creek is a waterway in San Mateo County, California, that drains the Crystal Springs Reservoir and flows toward San Francisco Bay.
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B.
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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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.
Topanga Creek
Topanga Creek is a seasonal stream in the Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California that flows through Topanga Canyon to the Pacific Ocean.
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E.
Castaic Creek
Castaic Creek is a stream in northern Los Angeles County, California, that flows through the Sierra Pelona Mountains and feeds into Castaic Lake before joining the Santa Clara River.
- 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: Stevens Creek Target entity description: Stevens Creek is a stream in California’s Santa Clara County that flows from the Santa Cruz Mountains through several communities before emptying into the San Francisco Bay.
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A.
San Mateo Creek
San Mateo Creek is a waterway in San Mateo County, California, that drains the Crystal Springs Reservoir and flows toward San Francisco Bay.
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B.
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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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.
Topanga Creek
Topanga Creek is a seasonal stream in the Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California that flows through Topanga Canyon to the Pacific Ocean.
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E.
Castaic Creek
Castaic Creek is a stream in northern Los Angeles County, California, that flows through the Sierra Pelona Mountains and feeds into Castaic Lake before joining the Santa Clara River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | stream ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crossedBy |
Interstate 280
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
State Route 237 NERFINISHED ⓘ State Route 85 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsDirection | generally northward ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Cupertino, California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Los Altos, California NERFINISHED ⓘ Mountain View, California NERFINISHED ⓘ Stevens Creek County Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Stevens Creek Reservoir NERFINISHED ⓘ Sunnyvale, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAdjacentFeature |
Stevens Creek Boulevard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stevens Creek Trail NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEcosystem | riparian corridor ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | named after early settler or landowner Stevens ⓘ |
| hasNearbyCity | San Jose, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Santa Clara County ⓘ
surface form:
Santa Clara County, California
|
| locatedInRegion | San Francisco Bay Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| managedBy | Santa Clara Valley Water District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mouthLocation | San Francisco Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Santa Clara Valley watershed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceLocation | Santa Cruz Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | San Francisco Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
flood control
ⓘ
recreation ⓘ wildlife habitat ⓘ |
| 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: Stevens Creek Description of subject: Stevens Creek is a stream in California’s Santa Clara County that flows from the Santa Cruz Mountains through several communities before emptying into the San Francisco Bay.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.