Berryessa Creek
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Berryessa Creek is a small urban stream in Santa Clara County, California, that flows through the Milpitas and San José area before joining Coyote Creek.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Berryessa Creek canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4952429 — 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: Berryessa Creek Context triple: [Coyote Creek (Santa Clara County), hasTributary, Berryessa Creek]
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A.
Asopus River
The Asopus River is an ancient river in the northeastern Peloponnese of Greece, frequently mentioned in Greek mythology and classical literature.
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B.
Chipola River
Chipola River is a spring-fed river in the Florida Panhandle known for its clear waters, limestone caves, and popular opportunities for paddling, fishing, and wildlife viewing.
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C.
Canoochee River
The Canoochee River is a significant river in southeastern Georgia that drains rural coastal plain landscapes before joining the Altamaha River system.
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D.
Sandburg Creek
Sandburg Creek is a small stream in New York’s Hudson Valley that feeds into the larger Rondout Creek within the Catskill region.
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E.
Asa River
Asa River is a significant waterway in Kwara State, Nigeria, flowing through the city of Ilorin and serving as an important source of water and local livelihood.
- 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: Berryessa Creek Target entity description: Berryessa Creek is a small urban stream in Santa Clara County, California, that flows through the Milpitas and San José area before joining Coyote Creek.
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A.
Asopus River
The Asopus River is an ancient river in the northeastern Peloponnese of Greece, frequently mentioned in Greek mythology and classical literature.
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B.
Chipola River
Chipola River is a spring-fed river in the Florida Panhandle known for its clear waters, limestone caves, and popular opportunities for paddling, fishing, and wildlife viewing.
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C.
Canoochee River
The Canoochee River is a significant river in southeastern Georgia that drains rural coastal plain landscapes before joining the Altamaha River system.
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D.
Sandburg Creek
Sandburg Creek is a small stream in New York’s Hudson Valley that feeds into the larger Rondout Creek within the Catskill region.
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E.
Asa River
Asa River is a significant waterway in Kwara State, Nigeria, flowing through the city of Ilorin and serving as an important source of water and local livelihood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | stream ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crossedBy |
Capitol Avenue
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 680 NERFINISHED ⓘ Montague Expressway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | Coyote Creek drainage basin ⓘ |
| emptiesUltimatelyInto | San Francisco Bay (via Coyote Creek and South San Francisco Bay) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsDirection | generally northwest ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Milpitas, California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
San José, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEcosystemType | urban riparian corridor ⓘ |
| hasFloodControlChannelSections | true ⓘ |
| hasFloodRiskMitigationProjects | true ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | Berryessa area of San José NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyLandUse |
commercial
ⓘ
light industrial ⓘ residential ⓘ |
| hasNearbyTransportationInfrastructure | Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Berryessa/North San José area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWatershedAreaType | highly urbanized ⓘ |
| isChannelizedIn |
urban reaches of Milpitas
ⓘ
urban reaches of North San José ⓘ |
| isMonitoredFor |
flood control
ⓘ
water quality ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ Santa Clara County ⓘ
surface form:
Santa Clara County, California
|
| locatedInCounty | Santa Clara County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| managedBy | Santa Clara Valley Water District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mouth | Coyote Creek (Santa Clara County, California) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mouthLocation | San José, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
San Francisco Bay hydrologic region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Santa Clara County stream network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Milpitas residential areas
ⓘ
industrial areas in Milpitas ⓘ |
| passesThrough | Berryessa neighborhood, San José ⓘ |
| receivesUrbanRunoffFrom |
Milpitas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North San José NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | South Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
stormwater runoff impacts
ⓘ
urban flooding ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Coyote Creek (Santa Clara County, California) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| watercourseSystem | Coyote Creek watershed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| watercourseType | perennial 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: Berryessa Creek Description of subject: Berryessa Creek is a small urban stream in Santa Clara County, California, that flows through the Milpitas and San José area before joining Coyote Creek.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.