Calabazas Creek (via connected flood-control system)
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Calabazas Creek (via connected flood-control system) is an engineered urban waterway in Santa Clara County, California, integrated into a regional flood-control network that links it hydrologically with nearby creeks such as San Tomas Aquino Creek.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Calabazas Creek (via connected flood-control system) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4284327 — 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: Calabazas Creek (via connected flood-control system) Context triple: [San Tomas Aquino Creek, hasTributary, Calabazas Creek (via connected flood-control system)]
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A.
Carroll Creek flood control project
Carroll Creek flood control project is an urban water management and revitalization initiative in Frederick, Maryland, designed to prevent flooding while supporting public spaces, trails, and downtown redevelopment along Carroll Creek.
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B.
Black Creek (Florida)
Black Creek is a significant tributary of the St. Johns River in northeastern Florida, known for its dark, tannin-rich waters and recreational opportunities such as boating, fishing, and paddling.
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C.
Fountain Creek Watershed Flood Control and Greenway District
The Fountain Creek Watershed Flood Control and Greenway District is a regional governmental entity in Colorado responsible for managing flood control, watershed protection, and greenway development along Fountain Creek and its surrounding basin.
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D.
San Tomas Aquino Creek
San Tomas Aquino Creek is a small urban waterway in Santa Clara County, California, that flows through several cities in Silicon Valley before emptying into the southern end of San Francisco Bay.
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E.
New Creek
New Creek is a stream in the eastern United States that serves as a tributary of the North Branch Potomac River, contributing to the Potomac 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: Calabazas Creek (via connected flood-control system) Target entity description: Calabazas Creek (via connected flood-control system) is an engineered urban waterway in Santa Clara County, California, integrated into a regional flood-control network that links it hydrologically with nearby creeks such as San Tomas Aquino Creek.
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A.
Carroll Creek flood control project
Carroll Creek flood control project is an urban water management and revitalization initiative in Frederick, Maryland, designed to prevent flooding while supporting public spaces, trails, and downtown redevelopment along Carroll Creek.
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B.
Black Creek (Florida)
Black Creek is a significant tributary of the St. Johns River in northeastern Florida, known for its dark, tannin-rich waters and recreational opportunities such as boating, fishing, and paddling.
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C.
Fountain Creek Watershed Flood Control and Greenway District
The Fountain Creek Watershed Flood Control and Greenway District is a regional governmental entity in Colorado responsible for managing flood control, watershed protection, and greenway development along Fountain Creek and its surrounding basin.
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D.
San Tomas Aquino Creek
San Tomas Aquino Creek is a small urban waterway in Santa Clara County, California, that flows through several cities in Silicon Valley before emptying into the southern end of San Francisco Bay.
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E.
New Creek
New Creek is a stream in the eastern United States that serves as a tributary of the North Branch Potomac River, contributing to the Potomac River watershed.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
engineered urban waterway
ⓘ
flood-control channel ⓘ hydrologically connected waterway ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| connectedThrough |
channelized reaches
ⓘ
engineered flood-control infrastructure ⓘ storm drains ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| environmentType |
engineered channel
ⓘ
urban waterway ⓘ |
| flowsToward | San Francisco Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
flood control
ⓘ
stormwater conveyance ⓘ urban drainage ⓘ |
| hydrologicallyConnectedTo |
San Tomas Aquino Creek
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
nearby creeks in Santa Clara County ⓘ |
| integratedWith | regional stormwater management system ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ Santa Clara County ⓘ
surface form:
Santa Clara County, California
|
| managedBy | local flood-control authorities in Santa Clara County ⓘ |
| managesRunoffFrom | urban areas of Santa Clara County ⓘ |
| partOf |
San Tomas Aquino–Calabazas Creek watershed
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Santa Clara County flood-control system NERFINISHED ⓘ regional flood-control network ⓘ |
| purpose |
protect adjacent urban development
ⓘ
reduce flood risk ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
seasonal flow variation
ⓘ
urban runoff ⓘ |
| watercourse | Calabazas Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Calabazas Creek (via connected flood-control system) Description of subject: Calabazas Creek (via connected flood-control system) is an engineered urban waterway in Santa Clara County, California, integrated into a regional flood-control network that links it hydrologically with nearby creeks such as San Tomas Aquino Creek.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.