Weller Creek
E845295
Weller Creek is a small stream in Illinois that serves as a minor tributary feeding into the Des Plaines River within the greater Chicago-area watershed.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Weller Creek canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6233192 — 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: Weller Creek Context triple: [Des Plaines River, hasTributary, Weller Creek]
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A.
Wahoo Creek
Wahoo Creek is a stream in eastern Nebraska that lends its name to the nearby city of Wahoo.
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B.
Well Creek
Well Creek is a waterway associated with the locality of Upwell in England, forming part of the region’s drainage and navigation network.
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C.
Hannibal Creek
Hannibal Creek is a waterway after which the city of Hannibal, Missouri, is named.
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D.
Tinemaha Creek
Tinemaha Creek is a stream in eastern California that feeds into the Owens River, contributing to the hydrology of the Owens Valley region.
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E.
Lytle Creek
Lytle Creek is a mountain stream and unincorporated community area in the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California, known for its scenic canyon, outdoor recreation, and historic settlements.
- 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: Weller Creek Target entity description: Weller Creek is a small stream in Illinois that serves as a minor tributary feeding into the Des Plaines River within the greater Chicago-area watershed.
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A.
Wahoo Creek
Wahoo Creek is a stream in eastern Nebraska that lends its name to the nearby city of Wahoo.
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B.
Well Creek
Well Creek is a waterway associated with the locality of Upwell in England, forming part of the region’s drainage and navigation network.
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C.
Hannibal Creek
Hannibal Creek is a waterway after which the city of Hannibal, Missouri, is named.
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D.
Tinemaha Creek
Tinemaha Creek is a stream in eastern California that feeds into the Owens River, contributing to the hydrology of the Owens Valley region.
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E.
Lytle Creek
Lytle Creek is a mountain stream and unincorporated community area in the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California, known for its scenic canyon, outdoor recreation, and historic settlements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | stream ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| flowsThrough | northeastern Illinois ⓘ |
| hydrologicSystem | Mississippi River basin ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Chicago metropolitan area ⓘ |
| locatedInWatershed |
Des Plaines River watershed
ⓘ
linked to:
Des Plaines River
|
| mouthLocatedIn | Illinois ⓘ |
| partOf | greater Chicago-area watershed ⓘ |
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Des Plaines River ⓘ |
| watercourseType | small 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: Weller Creek Description of subject: Weller Creek is a small stream in Illinois that serves as a minor tributary feeding into the Des Plaines River within the greater Chicago-area watershed.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Des Plaines River (nearby)