Yosemite Creek
E127008
Yosemite Creek is a mountain stream in Yosemite National Park that feeds the iconic Yosemite Falls before joining the Merced River.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yosemite Creek canonical | 3 |
| Yosemite Creek drainage | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T371427 — 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: Yosemite Creek Context triple: [Yosemite Falls, watercourse, Yosemite Creek]
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A.
Lone Pine Creek
Lone Pine Creek is a mountain stream in California’s eastern Sierra Nevada that flows from the slopes of Mount Whitney through the Whitney Portal area down toward the town of Lone Pine.
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B.
Strawberry Creek
Strawberry Creek is a small natural waterway running through the University of California, Berkeley campus and the city of Berkeley, California.
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C.
Bridalveil Creek
Bridalveil Creek is a mountain stream in Yosemite National Park that feeds the iconic Bridalveil Fall before joining the Merced River.
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D.
Adobe Creek
Adobe Creek is a small stream in Santa Clara County, California, historically significant for inspiring the name of the software company Adobe Inc.
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E.
Tuolumne River
The Tuolumne River is a major Sierra Nevada waterway in California known for its scenic alpine meadows, deep granite canyons, and popular whitewater rafting and fishing opportunities.
- 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: Yosemite Creek Target entity description: Yosemite Creek is a mountain stream in Yosemite National Park that feeds the iconic Yosemite Falls before joining the Merced River.
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A.
Lone Pine Creek
Lone Pine Creek is a mountain stream in California’s eastern Sierra Nevada that flows from the slopes of Mount Whitney through the Whitney Portal area down toward the town of Lone Pine.
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B.
Strawberry Creek
Strawberry Creek is a small natural waterway running through the University of California, Berkeley campus and the city of Berkeley, California.
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C.
Bridalveil Creek
Bridalveil Creek is a mountain stream in Yosemite National Park that feeds the iconic Bridalveil Fall before joining the Merced River.
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D.
Adobe Creek
Adobe Creek is a small stream in Santa Clara County, California, historically significant for inspiring the name of the software company Adobe Inc.
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E.
Tuolumne River
The Tuolumne River is a major Sierra Nevada waterway in California known for its scenic alpine meadows, deep granite canyons, and popular whitewater rafting and fishing opportunities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mountain stream
ⓘ
river ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crosses |
Tioga Road corridor
ⓘ
surface form:
Tioga Road
|
| elevationFeature | high-elevation headwaters in Sierra Nevada ⓘ |
| feeds | Yosemite Falls ⓘ |
| flowsGenerally | southward toward Yosemite Valley ⓘ |
| flowsThrough | Yosemite National Park ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
granite bedrock channel
ⓘ
seasonal variation in flow ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Lower Yosemite Fall Trail
ⓘ
surface form:
Lower Yosemite Fall
Yosemite Falls ⓘ
surface form:
Middle Cascades of Yosemite Falls
Yosemite Falls ⓘ
surface form:
Upper Yosemite Fall
|
| hasWaterfall | Yosemite Falls ⓘ |
| knownFor | forming Yosemite Falls ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Mariposa County
ⓘ
surface form:
Mariposa County, California
Sierra Nevada ⓘ Yosemite National Park ⓘ |
| locatedInProtectedArea | Yosemite National Park ⓘ |
| mainSourceOfWaterFor | Yosemite Falls ⓘ |
| mouthOfWatercourse | Merced River ⓘ |
| near | Yosemite Creek Campground ⓘ |
| partOf |
Merced River
ⓘ
surface form:
Merced River watershed
|
| region |
central Sierra Nevada
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Sierra Nevada
|
| riverSystem |
Merced River
ⓘ
surface form:
Merced River system
|
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| tributaryOf | Merced River ⓘ |
| usedFor | recreation ⓘ |
| watercourseThrough | Yosemite Valley vicinity ⓘ |
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: Yosemite Creek Description of subject: Yosemite Creek is a mountain stream in Yosemite National Park that feeds the iconic Yosemite Falls before joining the Merced River.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yosemite Creek drainage