Antietam Creek, Maryland
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Antietam Creek in Maryland is a historic waterway best known as the site of the Battle of Antietam, one of the bloodiest and most consequential engagements of the American Civil War.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Antietam Creek, Maryland canonical | 2 |
| Antietam Creek | 1 |
| Antietam National Battlefield vicinity | 1 |
| Sharpsburg Creek | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T51301 — 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: Antietam Creek, Maryland Context triple: [American Civil War, significantPlace, Antietam Creek, Maryland]
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A.
Potomac River
The Potomac River is a major waterway in the Mid-Atlantic United States that flows through the Appalachian region and forms part of the boundary between Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
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B.
Crescent Meadow
Crescent Meadow is a scenic, lush alpine meadow in California’s Sierra Nevada, renowned for its surrounding giant sequoia trees and tranquil walking trails.
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C.
Riverway
Riverway is a linear park and waterway in Boston that forms part of the Emerald Necklace, offering scenic green space and recreational paths near the Longwood Medical Area.
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D.
West Branch of the Wapsinonoc Creek
West Branch of the Wapsinonoc Creek is a small waterway in eastern Iowa that serves as the namesake of the nearby city of West Branch.
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E.
Eno River State Park
Eno River State Park is a scenic natural area in North Carolina known for its wooded trails, riverfront landscapes, and opportunities for hiking, fishing, and paddling.
- 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: Antietam Creek, Maryland Target entity description: Antietam Creek in Maryland is a historic waterway best known as the site of the Battle of Antietam, one of the bloodiest and most consequential engagements of the American Civil War.
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A.
Potomac River
The Potomac River is a major waterway in the Mid-Atlantic United States that flows through the Appalachian region and forms part of the boundary between Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
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B.
Crescent Meadow
Crescent Meadow is a scenic, lush alpine meadow in California’s Sierra Nevada, renowned for its surrounding giant sequoia trees and tranquil walking trails.
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C.
Riverway
Riverway is a linear park and waterway in Boston that forms part of the Emerald Necklace, offering scenic green space and recreational paths near the Longwood Medical Area.
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D.
West Branch of the Wapsinonoc Creek
West Branch of the Wapsinonoc Creek is a small waterway in eastern Iowa that serves as the namesake of the nearby city of West Branch.
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E.
Eno River State Park
Eno River State Park is a scenic natural area in North Carolina known for its wooded trails, riverfront landscapes, and opportunities for hiking, fishing, and paddling.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
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: Antietam Creek, Maryland Description of subject: Antietam Creek in Maryland is a historic waterway best known as the site of the Battle of Antietam, one of the bloodiest and most consequential engagements of the American Civil War.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Antietam National Battlefield vicinity
subject surface form:
Antietam Creek
this entity surface form:
Antietam Creek
this entity surface form:
Sharpsburg Creek