Mariposa Creek
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Mariposa Creek is a stream in central California notable for its early Spanish exploration history and association with the Sierra Nevada foothill town of Mariposa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mariposa Creek canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T463471 — 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: Mariposa Creek Context triple: [Mariposa County, namedFor, Mariposa Creek]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Yosemite Creek
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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E.
Kings River
Kings River is a major river in California’s Sierra Nevada that carves the deep gorge of Kings Canyon and gives its name to Kings Canyon National Park.
- 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: Mariposa Creek Target entity description: Mariposa Creek is a stream in central California notable for its early Spanish exploration history and association with the Sierra Nevada foothill town of Mariposa.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Yosemite Creek
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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E.
Kings River
Kings River is a major river in California’s Sierra Nevada that carves the deep gorge of Kings Canyon and gives its name to Kings Canyon National Park.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
river
ⓘ
stream ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Mariposa, California ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| drainageBasin |
San Joaquin River Basin
ⓘ
surface form:
San Joaquin Valley drainage
|
| flowsThrough | town of Mariposa, California ⓘ |
| hasBankSettlement | Mariposa, California ⓘ |
| hasEcologicalRole | supports local wildlife in Sierra Nevada foothills ⓘ |
| hasEtymology | Spanish word "mariposa" meaning "butterfly" ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
riparian habitat
ⓘ
seasonal flow variations ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance | early Spanish exploration in California ⓘ |
| hasWatershed | Mariposa Creek watershed ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Spanish colonial period in California ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Mariposa County ⓘ
surface form:
Mariposa County, California
|
| locatedInRegion |
Central California
ⓘ
Sierra Nevada foothills ⓘ |
| mouthLocatedIn | San Joaquin Valley ⓘ |
| namedAfter | mariposas (butterflies) ⓘ |
| near |
Yosemite National Park
ⓘ
surface form:
Yosemite National Park region
|
| partOf | hydrologic system of the Sierra Nevada foothills ⓘ |
| region | Sierra Nevada ⓘ |
| tributaryOf |
San Joaquin River Basin
ⓘ
surface form:
San Joaquin River basin
|
| usedFor |
local irrigation
ⓘ
recreation ⓘ |
| watercourseType | perennial stream in upper reaches ⓘ |
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: Mariposa Creek Description of subject: Mariposa Creek is a stream in central California notable for its early Spanish exploration history and association with the Sierra Nevada foothill town of Mariposa.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.