North Creek (Snohomish and King counties, Washington)
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North Creek is a stream in Snohomish and King counties in Washington State that flows through rapidly urbanizing areas and supports important salmon and trout habitat.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| North Creek (Snohomish and King counties, Washington) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9510882 — 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: North Creek (Snohomish and King counties, Washington) Context triple: [Sammamish River, hasTributary, North Creek (Snohomish and King counties, Washington)]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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.
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D.
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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E.
North River (Washington)
North River (Washington) is a coastal river in southwestern Washington State that drains forested uplands into Willapa Bay on the Pacific coast.
- 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: North Creek (Snohomish and King counties, Washington) Target entity description: North Creek is a stream in Snohomish and King counties in Washington State that flows through rapidly urbanizing areas and supports important salmon and trout habitat.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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.
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D.
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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E.
North River (Washington)
North River (Washington) is a coastal river in southwestern Washington State that drains forested uplands into Willapa Bay on the Pacific coast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | stream ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Cascadia College campus
ⓘ
University of Washington Bothell campus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crossedBy |
Interstate 405
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Washington State Route 524 NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington State Route 527 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsDirection | generally southward ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
City of Bothell, Washington
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
City of Mill Creek, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ rapidly urbanizing areas ⓘ unincorporated Snohomish County, Washington ⓘ |
| hasApproximateLength | about 13 miles ⓘ |
| hasConservationFocus |
riparian corridor restoration
ⓘ
salmon recovery ⓘ |
| hasIssue |
habitat fragmentation
ⓘ
water quality degradation ⓘ |
| hasLandUseInBasin |
commercial
ⓘ
residential ⓘ suburban ⓘ urban ⓘ |
| hasNearbyFeature |
North Creek Park (Snohomish County, Washington)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Creek Trail NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRestorationProject | North Creek wetland restoration at UW Bothell ⓘ |
| hasTributary |
Coleman Creek (Snohomish County, Washington)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Penny Creek (Snohomish County, Washington) NERFINISHED ⓘ Silver Creek (Snohomish County, Washington) NERFINISHED ⓘ Tambark Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isMonitoredBy |
King County Water and Land Resources Division
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Snohomish County Surface Water Management NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSubjectTo | stormwater runoff impacts ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
King County
ⓘ
surface form:
King County, Washington
Snohomish County, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Washington (state)
|
| locatedInWatershed | Sammamish River watershed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mouthElevation | approximately 20 feet ⓘ |
| mouthLocatedIn |
Bothell, Washington
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sammamish River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Lake Washington basin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
WRIA 8 (Lake Washington/Cedar/Sammamish Watershed) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceLocatedIn | Snohomish County, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsHabitatFor |
chinook salmon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
coho salmon ⓘ salmon ⓘ sockeye salmon ⓘ steelhead trout ⓘ trout ⓘ |
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: North Creek (Snohomish and King counties, Washington) Description of subject: North Creek is a stream in Snohomish and King counties in Washington State that flows through rapidly urbanizing areas and supports important salmon and trout habitat.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.