May Creek (King County, Washington)
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May Creek is a stream in King County, Washington, that flows through suburban and forested areas before joining the Cedar River within the Lake Washington–Cedar River watershed.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Taylor Creek (King County, Washington) | 2 |
| May Creek (King County, Washington) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5953862 — 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: May Creek (King County, Washington) Context triple: [Lake Washington–Cedar River watershed, hasTributary, May Creek (King County, Washington)]
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A.
Smith Creek (Washington)
Smith Creek (Washington) is a small coastal stream in Pacific County that drains into Willapa Bay in southwestern Washington State.
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B.
Salmon Creek, Washington
Salmon Creek, Washington is a suburban census-designated community in southwestern Washington State, located just north of Vancouver in Clark County.
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C.
Wapato Creek
Wapato Creek is a small stream in Washington State that flows through the Tacoma area before emptying into Commencement Bay in Puget Sound.
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D.
Wilson Creek, Washington
Wilson Creek, Washington is a small rural town in Grant County known for its agricultural surroundings and quiet, close-knit community in central Washington State.
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E.
Cedar River (Washington)
Cedar River (Washington) is a river in western Washington State that flows from the Cascade Range into Lake Washington and has long been central to the region’s ecology, water supply, and Indigenous history.
- 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: May Creek (King County, Washington) Target entity description: May Creek is a stream in King County, Washington, that flows through suburban and forested areas before joining the Cedar River within the Lake Washington–Cedar River watershed.
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A.
Smith Creek (Washington)
Smith Creek (Washington) is a small coastal stream in Pacific County that drains into Willapa Bay in southwestern Washington State.
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B.
Salmon Creek, Washington
Salmon Creek, Washington is a suburban census-designated community in southwestern Washington State, located just north of Vancouver in Clark County.
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C.
Wapato Creek
Wapato Creek is a small stream in Washington State that flows through the Tacoma area before emptying into Commencement Bay in Puget Sound.
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D.
Wilson Creek, Washington
Wilson Creek, Washington is a small rural town in Grant County known for its agricultural surroundings and quiet, close-knit community in central Washington State.
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E.
Cedar River (Washington)
Cedar River (Washington) is a river in western Washington State that flows from the Cascade Range into Lake Washington and has long been central to the region’s ecology, water supply, and Indigenous history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | stream ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | King County, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| drainageBasin |
Cedar River drainage basin
ⓘ
Lake Washington drainage basin ⓘ |
| environment |
forested
ⓘ
suburban ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Cedar River (King County, Washington) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMouth | confluence with Cedar River (King County, Washington) ⓘ |
| hasName | May Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hydrologicSystem | Lake Washington–Cedar River watershed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
King County
ⓘ
surface form:
King County, Washington
Lake Washington–Cedar River watershed NERFINISHED ⓘ Pacific Northwest ⓘ Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Washington (state)
|
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| mouthLocatedIn | King County, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cedar River basin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lake Washington watershed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
forested areas of King County, Washington
ⓘ
suburban areas of King County, Washington ⓘ |
| region | Puget Sound lowland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Washington (state) 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: May Creek (King County, Washington) Description of subject: May Creek is a stream in King County, Washington, that flows through suburban and forested areas before joining the Cedar River within the Lake Washington–Cedar River watershed.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cedar River (Washington)
this entity surface form:
Taylor Creek (King County, Washington)
this entity surface form:
Taylor Creek (King County, Washington)