McWay Falls
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McWay Falls is a picturesque 80-foot coastal waterfall in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park that dramatically drops onto the beach and into the Pacific Ocean along California’s Big Sur coast.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McWay Falls canonical | 7 |
| McWay Creek | 2 |
| 80-foot McWay Falls | 1 |
| McWay Cove | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T139525 — 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: McWay Falls Context triple: [Big Sur region of California, hasLandmark, McWay Falls]
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Multnomah Falls
Multnomah Falls is a famous two-tiered waterfall in the Columbia River Gorge of Oregon, known for its scenic beauty and iconic footbridge.
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Bridalveil Fall
Bridalveil Fall is a famous, picturesque waterfall in California’s Yosemite Valley known for its year-round flow and mist that often creates striking rainbows.
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C.
Vernal Fall
Vernal Fall is a prominent and picturesque waterfall on the Merced River in Yosemite National Park, renowned for its powerful flow and popular hiking access via the Mist Trail.
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D.
Nevada Fall
Nevada Fall is a prominent and picturesque waterfall on the Merced River in Yosemite National Park, known for its powerful drop and dramatic granite surroundings.
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E.
Cascadilla Gorge
Cascadilla Gorge is a scenic, steep-sided ravine in Ithaca, New York, known for its cascading waterfalls, stone trails, and role as a popular natural area near Cornell University.
- 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: McWay Falls Target entity description: McWay Falls is a picturesque 80-foot coastal waterfall in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park that dramatically drops onto the beach and into the Pacific Ocean along California’s Big Sur coast.
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A.
Multnomah Falls
Multnomah Falls is a famous two-tiered waterfall in the Columbia River Gorge of Oregon, known for its scenic beauty and iconic footbridge.
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B.
Bridalveil Fall
Bridalveil Fall is a famous, picturesque waterfall in California’s Yosemite Valley known for its year-round flow and mist that often creates striking rainbows.
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C.
Vernal Fall
Vernal Fall is a prominent and picturesque waterfall on the Merced River in Yosemite National Park, renowned for its powerful flow and popular hiking access via the Mist Trail.
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D.
Nevada Fall
Nevada Fall is a prominent and picturesque waterfall on the Merced River in Yosemite National Park, known for its powerful drop and dramatic granite surroundings.
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E.
Cascadilla Gorge
Cascadilla Gorge is a scenic, steep-sided ravine in Ithaca, New York, known for its cascading waterfalls, stone trails, and role as a popular natural area near Cornell University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
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: McWay Falls Description of subject: McWay Falls is a picturesque 80-foot coastal waterfall in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park that dramatically drops onto the beach and into the Pacific Ocean along California’s Big Sur coast.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
McWay Cove
this entity surface form:
McWay Creek
this entity surface form:
McWay Creek
this entity surface form:
80-foot McWay Falls