San Diego Creek
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San Diego Creek is a major urban waterway in Orange County, California, that drains much of the Irvine area into Upper Newport Bay.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| San Diego Creek canonical | 1 |
| San Diego Creek watershed | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11425829 — 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: San Diego Creek Context triple: [San Joaquin Hills, boundedBy, San Diego Creek]
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A.
San Juan Creek
San Juan Creek is a stream in San Luis Obispo County, California, that drains the rural area around the community of Shandon.
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B.
San Diego River
The San Diego River is a major waterway in Southern California that flows from the Cuyamaca Mountains through Mission Valley to the Pacific Ocean, playing a key role in the region’s history and ecology.
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C.
Alamitos Creek
Alamitos Creek is a stream in Santa Clara County, California, that flows through the Almaden Valley area and feeds into the Guadalupe River within the San Francisco Bay watershed.
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D.
San Andreas Creek
San Andreas Creek is a watercourse in San Mateo County, California, that drains the eastern slopes of the Santa Cruz Mountains into the San Andreas Reservoir.
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E.
San Lorenzo Creek
San Lorenzo Creek is a stream in central California that serves as a significant tributary within the Salinas 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: San Diego Creek Target entity description: San Diego Creek is a major urban waterway in Orange County, California, that drains much of the Irvine area into Upper Newport Bay.
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A.
San Juan Creek
San Juan Creek is a stream in San Luis Obispo County, California, that drains the rural area around the community of Shandon.
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B.
San Diego River
The San Diego River is a major waterway in Southern California that flows from the Cuyamaca Mountains through Mission Valley to the Pacific Ocean, playing a key role in the region’s history and ecology.
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C.
Alamitos Creek
Alamitos Creek is a stream in Santa Clara County, California, that flows through the Almaden Valley area and feeds into the Guadalupe River within the San Francisco Bay watershed.
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D.
San Andreas Creek
San Andreas Creek is a watercourse in San Mateo County, California, that drains the eastern slopes of the Santa Cruz Mountains into the San Andreas Reservoir.
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E.
San Lorenzo Creek
San Lorenzo Creek is a stream in central California that serves as a significant tributary within the Salinas River watershed.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
creek
ⓘ
river ⓘ urban waterway ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Upper Newport Bay Ecological Reserve
ⓘ
linked to:
Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve
|
| basinCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| crosses |
California State Route 55 vicinity
ⓘ
Interstate 405 in Irvine ⓘ |
| currentLandUseContext | master-planned community of Irvine ⓘ |
| drains |
Irvine, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Irvine
Lake Forest, California ⓘ Portions of Santa Ana Mountains foothills ⓘ Tustin, California ⓘ |
| ecoregion | California coastal sage and chaparral ⓘ |
| environmentalIssue |
nutrient loading to Upper Newport Bay
ⓘ
sedimentation in Upper Newport Bay ⓘ urban runoff pollution ⓘ |
| flowsGenerally | southwest ⓘ |
| flowsInto |
Upper Newport Bay
ⓘ
linked to:
Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve
|
| hasNearbyFeature | San Diego Creek Trail ⓘ |
| hasWatershedCharacteristic |
engineered flood control channels
ⓘ
highly urbanized watershed ⓘ |
| historicalLandUse | Irvine Ranch agriculture ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Irvine, California ⓘ
linked to:
Irvine
Orange County, California ⓘ |
| majorFunction |
stormwater drainage
ⓘ
urban runoff conveyance ⓘ |
| managedBy | Orange County Public Works ⓘ |
| mouthLocation |
Newport Beach, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Newport Beach
Upper Newport Bay ⓘ
linked to:
Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve
|
| partOf |
Santa Ana River watershed
ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Ana River
|
| passesNear | University of California, Irvine ⓘ |
| passesThrough | Irvine Ranch area ⓘ |
| recreation |
bicycling along creek trail
ⓘ
walking along creek trail ⓘ |
| region | Southern California ⓘ |
| tributary |
Barranca Channel
ⓘ
Bee Canyon Wash ⓘ
linked to:
Peters Canyon Wash
Bonita Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ Culver Channel ⓘ Harvard Channel ⓘ Peters Canyon Wash ⓘ San Joaquin Wash ⓘ Sand Canyon Wash ⓘ
linked to:
Peters Canyon Wash
|
| watercourseType | channelized 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: San Diego Creek Description of subject: San Diego Creek is a major urban waterway in Orange County, California, that drains much of the Irvine area into Upper Newport Bay.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: San Diego Creek