Shasta Lake
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Shasta Lake is a large reservoir in Northern California known for its extensive shoreline, houseboating, and proximity to Mount Shasta.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shasta Lake canonical | 20 |
| Shasta Lake, California | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T779518 — 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: Shasta Lake Context triple: [Shasta Cascade region, contains, Shasta Lake]
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A.
Lake Oroville
Lake Oroville is a large man-made reservoir in Northern California, created by the Oroville Dam on the Feather River, that serves as a major source of water storage, flood control, and recreation.
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B.
Butte Lake
Butte Lake is a scenic high-elevation lake in northern California known for its volcanic landscape, clear waters, and access to hiking and camping within Lassen Volcanic National Park.
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C.
Convict Lake
Convict Lake is a scenic alpine lake in California’s Eastern Sierra Nevada, renowned for its dramatic mountain backdrop, clear waters, and outdoor recreation opportunities like fishing and hiking.
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D.
Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe is a large, deep, and famously clear freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains, straddling the border of California and Nevada and serving as a major destination for outdoor recreation and tourism.
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E.
Shasta Dam
Shasta Dam is a large concrete gravity dam on California’s Sacramento River, forming Shasta Lake and serving as a key source of water storage, hydroelectric power, and flood control for the state.
- 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: Shasta Lake Target entity description: Shasta Lake is a large reservoir in Northern California known for its extensive shoreline, houseboating, and proximity to Mount Shasta.
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A.
Lake Oroville
Lake Oroville is a large man-made reservoir in Northern California, created by the Oroville Dam on the Feather River, that serves as a major source of water storage, flood control, and recreation.
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B.
Butte Lake
Butte Lake is a scenic high-elevation lake in northern California known for its volcanic landscape, clear waters, and access to hiking and camping within Lassen Volcanic National Park.
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C.
Convict Lake
Convict Lake is a scenic alpine lake in California’s Eastern Sierra Nevada, renowned for its dramatic mountain backdrop, clear waters, and outdoor recreation opportunities like fishing and hiking.
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D.
Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe is a large, deep, and famously clear freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains, straddling the border of California and Nevada and serving as a major destination for outdoor recreation and tourism.
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E.
Shasta Dam
Shasta Dam is a large concrete gravity dam on California’s Sacramento River, forming Shasta Lake and serving as a key source of water storage, hydroelectric power, and flood control for the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artificial lake
ⓘ
reservoir ⓘ |
| completedIn | 1945 ⓘ |
| constructionBegan | 1938 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy |
United States Bureau of Reclamation
ⓘ
linked to:
Bureau of Reclamation
|
| formedByDam | Shasta Dam ⓘ |
| hasArm |
McCloud River arm
ⓘ
linked to:
McCloud River
Pit River arm ⓘ
linked to:
Pit River
Sacramento River arm ⓘ Squaw Creek arm ⓘ |
| hasFishSpecies |
brown trout
ⓘ
catfish ⓘ landlocked king salmon ⓘ largemouth bass ⓘ rainbow trout ⓘ smallmouth bass ⓘ spotted bass ⓘ |
| hasIsland | Slaughterhouse Island ⓘ |
| hasRecreationActivity |
camping
ⓘ
swimming ⓘ wakeboarding ⓘ water skiing ⓘ |
| inflowsFromRiver |
Little Sacramento River
ⓘ
McCloud River ⓘ Pit River ⓘ Sacramento River ⓘ |
| knownFor |
boating
ⓘ
extensive shoreline ⓘ fishing ⓘ houseboating ⓘ water sports ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Shasta County, California ⓘ
linked to:
Shasta County
|
| locatedInRegion | Northern California ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Interstate 5 ⓘ |
| managingAgency |
United States Bureau of Reclamation
ⓘ
linked to:
Bureau of Reclamation
|
| maximumDepth | over 500 feet ⓘ |
| nearbyMountain | Mount Shasta ⓘ |
| nearestCity |
Redding, California
ⓘ
linked to:
City of Redding, California
|
| outflowsToRiver | Sacramento River ⓘ |
| partOf | Central Valley Project ⓘ |
| purpose |
flood control
ⓘ
hydroelectric power generation ⓘ irrigation supply ⓘ recreation ⓘ water storage ⓘ |
| recreationManagedBy | Shasta-Trinity National Forest ⓘ |
| river | Sacramento River ⓘ |
| shorelineLength | about 365 miles ⓘ |
| surfaceArea | about 30,000 acres ⓘ |
| waterVolume | about 4,500,000 acre-feet ⓘ |
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: Shasta Lake Description of subject: Shasta Lake is a large reservoir in Northern California known for its extensive shoreline, houseboating, and proximity to Mount Shasta.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Shasta Lake