Little Bear Creek (King County, Washington)
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Little Bear Creek is a stream in King County, Washington, that flows through suburban and forested areas before joining the Sammamish River.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Little Bear Creek (King County, Washington) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9510881 — 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: Little Bear Creek (King County, Washington) Context triple: [Sammamish River, hasTributary, Little Bear Creek (King County, Washington)]
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A.
Bear Creek (King County, Washington)
Bear Creek is a stream in King County, Washington, that flows through the Lake Washington–Cedar River watershed and supports important salmon habitat in the region.
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B.
Coal Creek (King County, Washington)
Coal Creek is a stream in King County, Washington, historically associated with local coal mining and now flowing through suburban and parkland areas before entering Lake Washington.
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C.
Smith Creek (Washington)
Smith Creek (Washington) is a small coastal stream in Pacific County that drains into Willapa Bay in southwestern Washington State.
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D.
Kelsey Creek (Washington)
Kelsey Creek is a stream in King County, Washington, that flows through the city of Bellevue and drains into Lake Washington as part of the greater Lake Washington–Cedar River watershed.
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E.
May Creek (King County, Washington)
May Creek is a stream in King County, Washington, that flows through suburban and forested areas before joining the Cedar River within the Lake Washington–Cedar River watershed.
- 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: Little Bear Creek (King County, Washington) Target entity description: Little Bear Creek is a stream in King County, Washington, that flows through suburban and forested areas before joining the Sammamish River.
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A.
Bear Creek (King County, Washington)
Bear Creek is a stream in King County, Washington, that flows through the Lake Washington–Cedar River watershed and supports important salmon habitat in the region.
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B.
Coal Creek (King County, Washington)
Coal Creek is a stream in King County, Washington, historically associated with local coal mining and now flowing through suburban and parkland areas before entering Lake Washington.
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C.
Smith Creek (Washington)
Smith Creek (Washington) is a small coastal stream in Pacific County that drains into Willapa Bay in southwestern Washington State.
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D.
Kelsey Creek (Washington)
Kelsey Creek is a stream in King County, Washington, that flows through the city of Bellevue and drains into Lake Washington as part of the greater Lake Washington–Cedar River watershed.
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E.
May Creek (King County, Washington)
May Creek is a stream in King County, Washington, that flows through suburban and forested areas before joining the Cedar River within the Lake Washington–Cedar River watershed.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | stream ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| flowsInto | Sammamish River ⓘ |
| hasClimateZone | marine west coast climate ⓘ |
| hasEcosystemType | riparian ecosystem ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentalConcern |
habitat fragmentation
ⓘ
urban runoff ⓘ |
| hasFloodRisk | localized flooding during heavy rain ⓘ |
| hasGeneralDirectionOfFlow | toward Sammamish River ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction |
King County government
ⓘ
linked to:
Government of King County, Washington
local municipalities in King County ⓘ |
| hasLandUseAlongBanks |
forests
ⓘ
parks and open space ⓘ residential development ⓘ |
| hasMouthIn |
King County, Washington
ⓘ
linked to:
King County
|
| hasRecreation |
walking trails nearby
ⓘ
wildlife viewing ⓘ |
| hasVegetationTypeAlongBanks | riparian forest ⓘ |
| hasWaterBodyType | freshwater ⓘ |
| hasWildlife |
aquatic invertebrates
ⓘ
riparian bird species ⓘ salmonids (historical or current habitat) ⓘ |
| hydrologicalSystem |
Lake Washington–Ship Canal system
ⓘ
linked to:
Lake Washington Ship Canal
|
| isPartOf | King County stream network ⓘ |
| isTributaryOf | Sammamish River ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
King County, Washington
ⓘ
linked to:
King County
Pacific Northwest ⓘ Washington (state) ⓘ
linked to:
Washington
|
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | Seattle metropolitan area ⓘ |
| mouth | Sammamish River ⓘ |
| partOfDrainageBasin |
Lake Washington watershed
ⓘ
linked to:
Lake Washington–Cedar River watershed
Puget Sound basin ⓘ
linked to:
Puget Sound
Sammamish River basin ⓘ
linked to:
Sammamish River
|
| passesThrough |
forested areas
ⓘ
suburban areas ⓘ |
| region |
King County lowlands
ⓘ
linked to:
Puget Lowland
|
| usedFor |
fish habitat
ⓘ
stormwater conveyance ⓘ |
| 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: Little Bear Creek (King County, Washington) Description of subject: Little Bear Creek is a stream in King County, Washington, that flows through suburban and forested areas before joining the Sammamish River.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.