Hylebos Creek
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Hylebos Creek is a stream in western Washington State that flows through urban and natural areas before emptying into Commencement Bay in Puget Sound.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| West Hylebos Creek | 2 |
| East Hylebos Creek | 1 |
| Hylebos Creek canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2115505 — 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: Hylebos Creek Context triple: [Commencement Bay, receivesInflowsFrom, Hylebos Creek]
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A.
Perkiomen Creek
Perkiomen Creek is a significant waterway in southeastern Pennsylvania that drains a largely suburban and rural watershed before joining the Schuylkill River.
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B.
Dungeness River
The Dungeness River is a salmon-bearing river on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula that flows from the Olympic Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
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C.
Johnson Creek
Johnson Creek is a tributary of the Willamette River in the Portland metropolitan area of Oregon, known for flowing through several communities and ongoing urban watershed restoration efforts.
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D.
Sluice Brook
Sluice Brook is a small stream that forms part of the Mystic River watershed in Massachusetts.
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E.
Mariposa Creek
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.
- 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: Hylebos Creek Target entity description: Hylebos Creek is a stream in western Washington State that flows through urban and natural areas before emptying into Commencement Bay in Puget Sound.
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A.
Perkiomen Creek
Perkiomen Creek is a significant waterway in southeastern Pennsylvania that drains a largely suburban and rural watershed before joining the Schuylkill River.
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B.
Dungeness River
The Dungeness River is a salmon-bearing river on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula that flows from the Olympic Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
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C.
Johnson Creek
Johnson Creek is a tributary of the Willamette River in the Portland metropolitan area of Oregon, known for flowing through several communities and ongoing urban watershed restoration efforts.
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D.
Sluice Brook
Sluice Brook is a small stream that forms part of the Mystic River watershed in Massachusetts.
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E.
Mariposa Creek
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
river
ⓘ
stream ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| emptiesInto |
Commencement Bay
ⓘ
Puget Sound ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Hylebos Waterway ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Federal Way, Washington, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Federal Way, Washington
Fife, Washington ⓘ Milton, Washington ⓘ Tacoma, Washington ⓘ natural areas ⓘ urban areas ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName |
Hylebos Creek
ⓘ
surface form:
West Hylebos Creek
|
| hasEcosystemType | riparian ecosystem ⓘ |
| hasHabitat |
salmon habitat
ⓘ
trout habitat ⓘ |
| hasIssue |
habitat degradation
ⓘ
urban stormwater runoff ⓘ |
| hasLandUseInWatershed |
forested
ⓘ
industrial ⓘ residential ⓘ wetlands ⓘ |
| hasMouthElevation | sea level ⓘ |
| hasRecreation |
walking trails near creek
ⓘ
wildlife viewing ⓘ |
| hasTributary |
Hylebos Creek
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
East Hylebos Creek
Hylebos Creek self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
West Hylebos Creek
|
| hasWatershed | Hylebos Creek watershed ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
King County
ⓘ
surface form:
King County, Washington
Pierce County ⓘ
surface form:
Pierce County, Washington
Puget Sound region ⓘ Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Washington State
western Washington ⓘ |
| monitoredBy |
Washington State environmental agencies
ⓘ
local environmental organizations ⓘ |
| mouth | Commencement Bay ⓘ |
| near |
Port of Tacoma
ⓘ
West Hylebos Wetlands Park ⓘ |
| partOf |
Puget Sound
ⓘ
surface form:
Puget Sound watershed
|
| region | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
restoration projects
ⓘ
salmon recovery efforts ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Commencement Bay ⓘ |
| watercourseType | lowland 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: Hylebos Creek Description of subject: Hylebos Creek is a stream in western Washington State that flows through urban and natural areas before emptying into Commencement Bay in Puget Sound.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
West Hylebos Creek
this entity surface form:
West Hylebos Creek
this entity surface form:
East Hylebos Creek