Silver Lake (dry lake)
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Silver Lake is a dry lake bed in California’s Mojave Desert that serves as a terminal basin for regional runoff and ephemeral flows.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Silver Lake (dry lake) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1177776 — 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: Silver Lake (dry lake) Context triple: [Mojave River, dischargesTo, Silver Lake (dry lake)]
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A.
Soda Dry Lake
Soda Dry Lake is a dry lake bed in California’s Mojave Desert, known for its stark salt flats and proximity to the former health resort site of Zzyzx.
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B.
Ivanpah Dry Lake
Ivanpah Dry Lake is a large, flat, dry lakebed in the Mojave Desert of southeastern California, known for land sailing, off-highway recreation, and its proximity to the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System.
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C.
Owens Lake
Owens Lake is a largely dry, saline lake in California’s Eastern Sierra region, known for its dust pollution issues and ongoing environmental restoration efforts.
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D.
Soda Lake (San Bernardino County)
Soda Lake (San Bernardino County) is a dry, ephemeral alkali lakebed in California’s Mojave Desert, known for its expansive salt flats and arid, desert landscape.
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E.
El Mirage Dry Lake
El Mirage Dry Lake is a dry lakebed in California known for its vast, flat playa used for land-speed racing, off-highway recreation, and film production within the Mojave Desert.
- 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: Silver Lake (dry lake) Target entity description: Silver Lake is a dry lake bed in California’s Mojave Desert that serves as a terminal basin for regional runoff and ephemeral flows.
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A.
Soda Dry Lake
Soda Dry Lake is a dry lake bed in California’s Mojave Desert, known for its stark salt flats and proximity to the former health resort site of Zzyzx.
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B.
Ivanpah Dry Lake
Ivanpah Dry Lake is a large, flat, dry lakebed in the Mojave Desert of southeastern California, known for land sailing, off-highway recreation, and its proximity to the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System.
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C.
Owens Lake
Owens Lake is a largely dry, saline lake in California’s Eastern Sierra region, known for its dust pollution issues and ongoing environmental restoration efforts.
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D.
Soda Lake (San Bernardino County)
Soda Lake (San Bernardino County) is a dry, ephemeral alkali lakebed in California’s Mojave Desert, known for its expansive salt flats and arid, desert landscape.
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E.
El Mirage Dry Lake
El Mirage Dry Lake is a dry lakebed in California known for its vast, flat playa used for land-speed racing, off-highway recreation, and film production within the Mojave Desert.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dry lake
ⓘ
endorheic basin ⓘ geographic feature ⓘ |
| basinFunction | collects surface runoff from surrounding highlands ⓘ |
| climateZone |
arid
ⓘ
desert climate ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| drainageCharacteristic | endorheic ⓘ |
| ecoregion |
Mojave Desert ecoregion
ⓘ
linked to:
Mojave Desert
|
| elevationRelativeToSeaLevel | above sea level ⓘ |
| geologicalProvince | Basin and Range Province ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName | Silver Lake playa ⓘ |
| hasHydrologicalRole | terminal sink for Mojave River floodwaters ⓘ |
| hasNearbyInfrastructure | Union Pacific Railroad line ⓘ |
| hasSedimentType |
evaporite deposits
ⓘ
playa sediments ⓘ |
| hasSoilType |
alkaline soils
ⓘ
saline soils ⓘ |
| hydrologicalRegime | ephemeral ⓘ |
| hydrologicalType | terminal basin ⓘ |
| locatedAlong |
Interstate 15
ⓘ
Mojave River ⓘ |
| locatedEastOf |
Barstow, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Barstow
|
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Mojave Desert ⓘ Mojave Desert region of California ⓘ
linked to:
Mojave Desert
San Bernardino County, California ⓘ
linked to:
San Bernardino County
|
| locatedNear | Baker, California ⓘ |
| locatedSouthwestOf | Las Vegas, Nevada ⓘ |
| near | Zzyzx, California ⓘ |
| outflow |
evaporation
ⓘ
infiltration ⓘ |
| partOf |
Mojave River drainage basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Mojave River
|
| receives |
ephemeral flows
ⓘ
regional runoff ⓘ |
| region |
Southwestern United States
ⓘ
linked to:
southwestern United States
|
| subjectTo | flash flooding during rare heavy rains ⓘ |
| surfaceCondition |
ephemeral lake
ⓘ
usually dry ⓘ |
| surfaceFeature |
mud flats
ⓘ
salt crusts ⓘ |
| usedFor | off‑highway vehicle recreation (locally and informally) ⓘ |
| waterBodyType | playa ⓘ |
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: Silver Lake (dry lake) Description of subject: Silver Lake is a dry lake bed in California’s Mojave Desert that serves as a terminal basin for regional runoff and ephemeral flows.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.