Aliso Creek
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Aliso Creek is a coastal stream in Orange County, California, that flows through the San Joaquin Hills to the Pacific Ocean and serves as a key natural drainage and habitat corridor in the region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aliso Creek canonical | 1 |
| Aliso Creek watershed | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11425828 — 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: Aliso Creek Context triple: [San Joaquin Hills, boundedBy, Aliso Creek]
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A.
Alhambra Creek
Alhambra Creek is a small urban waterway running through Martinez in Contra Costa County, California, known for its role in local flood control and habitat restoration efforts.
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B.
San Lorenzo Creek
San Lorenzo Creek is a stream in central California that serves as a significant tributary within the Salinas River watershed.
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C.
Los Gatos Creek
Los Gatos Creek is a stream in Santa Clara County, California, that flows through the town of Los Gatos and parts of the South Bay before joining the Guadalupe River.
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D.
San Vicente Creek
San Vicente Creek is a stream in San Diego County, California, that flows through the local watershed before joining the San Diego River.
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E.
Malibu Creek
Malibu Creek is a scenic waterway in the Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California that flows through rugged canyons to the Pacific Ocean near Malibu.
- 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: Aliso Creek Target entity description: Aliso Creek is a coastal stream in Orange County, California, that flows through the San Joaquin Hills to the Pacific Ocean and serves as a key natural drainage and habitat corridor in the region.
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A.
Alhambra Creek
Alhambra Creek is a small urban waterway running through Martinez in Contra Costa County, California, known for its role in local flood control and habitat restoration efforts.
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B.
San Lorenzo Creek
San Lorenzo Creek is a stream in central California that serves as a significant tributary within the Salinas River watershed.
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C.
Los Gatos Creek
Los Gatos Creek is a stream in Santa Clara County, California, that flows through the town of Los Gatos and parts of the South Bay before joining the Guadalupe River.
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D.
San Vicente Creek
San Vicente Creek is a stream in San Diego County, California, that flows through the local watershed before joining the San Diego River.
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E.
Malibu Creek
Malibu Creek is a scenic waterway in the Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California that flows through rugged canyons to the Pacific Ocean near Malibu.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coastal stream
ⓘ
river ⓘ stream ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crossedBy |
California State Route 1
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
California State Route 133 NERFINISHED ⓘ California State Route 73 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| drains | urbanized areas of south Orange County ⓘ |
| flowsGenerally | southwest ⓘ |
| flowsThrough | San Joaquin Hills NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| function |
habitat corridor
ⓘ
natural drainage corridor ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentalIssue |
bank erosion
ⓘ
urban runoff pollution ⓘ |
| hasMouthElevation | sea level ⓘ |
| hasNameEtymology | derived from Spanish word "aliso" meaning alder ⓘ |
| hasTributary |
Sulphur Creek (Orange County)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wood Canyon Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVegetation |
coastal sage scrub
ⓘ
riparian vegetation ⓘ |
| hasWildlife |
amphibians
ⓘ
riparian bird species ⓘ small mammals ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
California, United States ⓘ
surface form:
California
Orange County, California ⓘ Southern California ⓘ |
| locatedInProtectedArea | Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mouthLocatedIn |
Aliso Beach
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Laguna Beach, California NERFINISHED ⓘ Pacific Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near |
Crystal Cove State Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Laguna Coast Wilderness Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Aliso Creek watershed ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Laguna Hills, California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lake Forest, California NERFINISHED ⓘ Mission Viejo, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Aliso Viejo, California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Laguna Beach, California NERFINISHED ⓘ Laguna Niguel, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recreation |
Aliso Creek Trail
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
bicycling ⓘ hiking ⓘ |
| region | South Coast region of California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| riverSystem | Pacific Ocean drainage basin ⓘ |
| sourceLocatedIn |
foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains
ⓘ
near Portola Hills, California ⓘ |
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: Aliso Creek Description of subject: Aliso Creek is a coastal stream in Orange County, California, that flows through the San Joaquin Hills to the Pacific Ocean and serves as a key natural drainage and habitat corridor in the region.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Aliso Creek watershed