Lake Macanxoc
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Lake Macanxoc is a small natural lake adjacent to the ancient Maya archaeological site of Cobá in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lake Macanxoc canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2181241 — 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: Lake Macanxoc Context triple: [Cobá, nearbyFeature, Lake Macanxoc]
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A.
Laguna de Términos
Laguna de Términos is a large coastal lagoon and ecologically rich biosphere reserve in the Gulf of Mexico, known for its extensive wetlands, mangroves, and diverse marine and bird life.
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B.
Poopó Lake
Poopó Lake is a large, shallow saline lake in the Bolivian Andes, known for its fluctuating water levels and ecological importance to the surrounding Altiplano region.
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C.
Laguna Miscanti
Laguna Miscanti is a high-altitude Andean lake in northern Chile famed for its deep blue waters, surrounding volcanoes, and striking desert landscape.
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D.
Gran Lago
Gran Lago is the Spanish name for Lake Nicaragua, one of the largest freshwater lakes in Central America, located in southwestern Nicaragua.
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E.
Lake Tota
Lake Tota is Colombia’s largest natural lake, located high in the Andes and known for its scenic beauty and ecological significance.
- 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: Lake Macanxoc Target entity description: Lake Macanxoc is a small natural lake adjacent to the ancient Maya archaeological site of Cobá in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.
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A.
Laguna de Términos
Laguna de Términos is a large coastal lagoon and ecologically rich biosphere reserve in the Gulf of Mexico, known for its extensive wetlands, mangroves, and diverse marine and bird life.
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B.
Poopó Lake
Poopó Lake is a large, shallow saline lake in the Bolivian Andes, known for its fluctuating water levels and ecological importance to the surrounding Altiplano region.
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C.
Laguna Miscanti
Laguna Miscanti is a high-altitude Andean lake in northern Chile famed for its deep blue waters, surrounding volcanoes, and striking desert landscape.
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D.
Gran Lago
Gran Lago is the Spanish name for Lake Nicaragua, one of the largest freshwater lakes in Central America, located in southwestern Nicaragua.
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E.
Lake Tota
Lake Tota is Colombia’s largest natural lake, located high in the Andes and known for its scenic beauty and ecological significance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographical feature
ⓘ
natural lake ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Cobá
ⓘ
Cobá archaeological site ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Maya civilization ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| hasBasinCountry | Mexico ⓘ |
| hasClimate | tropical savanna climate ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext | Maya archaeology ⓘ |
| hasEnvironment | tropical lowland ⓘ |
| hasHydrologyType | freshwater lake ⓘ |
| hasLanguageRegion | Yucatec Maya-speaking area ⓘ |
| hasNearbySettlement |
Cobá village
ⓘ
linked to:
Cobá
|
| hasOrigin | natural ⓘ |
| hasTourismType | archaeological tourism ⓘ |
| hasVegetation | tropical dry forest ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Quintana Roo
ⓘ
Yucatán Peninsula ⓘ eastern Mexico ⓘ |
| locatedInProtectedArea |
Quintana Roo archaeological zone of Cobá
ⓘ
linked to:
Cobá archaeological site
|
| near |
Lake Coba group of lakes
ⓘ
linked to:
Lake Cobá
Lake Cobá ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cobá region
ⓘ
linked to:
Cobá
|
| usedBy | ancient Maya ⓘ |
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: Lake Macanxoc Description of subject: Lake Macanxoc is a small natural lake adjacent to the ancient Maya archaeological site of Cobá in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.