Great Slave Lake
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Great Slave Lake is a large, deep freshwater lake in Canada's Northwest Territories, known as the deepest lake in North America and an important hub for northern communities and ecosystems.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Great Slave Lake canonical | 27 |
| Great Slave Lake basin | 1 |
| North Arm of Great Slave Lake | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T783308 — 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: Great Slave Lake Context triple: [Northwest Territories, contains, Great Slave Lake]
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A.
Lake Athabasca
Lake Athabasca is a large, shallow lake in western Canada known for its uranium-rich region, important fisheries, and location spanning the border between Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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B.
Keewaydin Lake
Keewaydin Lake is a freshwater lake located in Oxford County in the western part of the U.S. state of Maine, known for its quiet, rural setting and outdoor recreation opportunities.
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C.
Hudson Bay
Hudson Bay is a vast inland sea in northeastern Canada, known for its subarctic climate, extensive ice cover, and crucial role in regional ecosystems and Indigenous cultures.
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D.
Lesser Slave Lake
Lesser Slave Lake is a large, shallow freshwater lake in north-central Alberta, Canada, known for its fishing, birdwatching, and surrounding provincial parks.
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E.
Lake Manitoba
Lake Manitoba is a large, shallow freshwater lake in the Canadian province of Manitoba, known for its wetlands, fisheries, and role in regional recreation and ecology.
- 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: Great Slave Lake Target entity description: Great Slave Lake is a large, deep freshwater lake in Canada's Northwest Territories, known as the deepest lake in North America and an important hub for northern communities and ecosystems.
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A.
Lake Athabasca
Lake Athabasca is a large, shallow lake in western Canada known for its uranium-rich region, important fisheries, and location spanning the border between Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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B.
Keewaydin Lake
Keewaydin Lake is a freshwater lake located in Oxford County in the western part of the U.S. state of Maine, known for its quiet, rural setting and outdoor recreation opportunities.
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C.
Hudson Bay
Hudson Bay is a vast inland sea in northeastern Canada, known for its subarctic climate, extensive ice cover, and crucial role in regional ecosystems and Indigenous cultures.
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D.
Lesser Slave Lake
Lesser Slave Lake is a large, shallow freshwater lake in north-central Alberta, Canada, known for its fishing, birdwatching, and surrounding provincial parks.
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E.
Lake Manitoba
Lake Manitoba is a large, shallow freshwater lake in the Canadian province of Manitoba, known for its wetlands, fisheries, and role in regional recreation and ecology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
freshwater lake
ⓘ
geographical feature ⓘ lake ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Lac des Esclaves
ⓘ
linked to:
Lesser Slave Lake
|
| basinCountry | Canada ⓘ |
| cityOnShore |
Behchokǫ̀
ⓘ
Fort Resolution ⓘ Hay River ⓘ Yellowknife ⓘ |
| climateZone | subarctic climate ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| depthRanking |
deepest lake in North America
ⓘ
one of the deepest lakes in the world ⓘ |
| drainageBasin |
Mackenzie River basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Mackenzie River Basin
|
| economicUse |
commercial fishing
ⓘ
subsistence fishing ⓘ tourism and recreation ⓘ transportation corridor ⓘ |
| ecosystemRole | important habitat for northern freshwater species ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 156 metres above sea level ⓘ |
| frozenPeriod | typically frozen from November to May ⓘ |
| geologicalOrigin | glacial lake ⓘ |
| length | approximately 480 kilometres ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Northern Canada
ⓘ
Northwest Territories ⓘ |
| maximumDepth |
2014 feet
ⓘ
614 metres ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Slavey people ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
extensive winter ice cover
ⓘ
very clear and cold water ⓘ |
| outflow | Mackenzie River ⓘ |
| partOf |
Mackenzie River system
ⓘ
linked to:
Mackenzie River Basin
|
| primaryInflow |
Hay River
ⓘ
Lockhart River ⓘ Slave River ⓘ Taltson River ⓘ |
| recreationActivity |
boating
ⓘ
ice fishing ⓘ snowmobiling ⓘ |
| region |
North Slave Region
ⓘ
South Slave Region ⓘ |
| supportsSpecies |
Arctic grayling
ⓘ
lake trout ⓘ northern pike ⓘ whitefish ⓘ |
| surfaceArea |
approximately 10,500 square miles
ⓘ
approximately 27,200 square kilometres ⓘ |
| transportRole | hub for northern communities ⓘ |
| waterType | freshwater ⓘ |
| width | up to about 109 kilometres ⓘ |
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: Great Slave Lake Description of subject: Great Slave Lake is a large, deep freshwater lake in Canada's Northwest Territories, known as the deepest lake in North America and an important hub for northern communities and ecosystems.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Great Slave Lake