Lake of the Woods
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Lake of the Woods is a large, island-dotted freshwater lake in northwestern Ontario that extends into Manitoba and Minnesota and is known for its fishing, boating, and scenic wilderness.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lake of the Woods canonical | 80 |
| Lake of the Woods basin | 3 |
| Lake of the Woods drainage basin | 2 |
| Lake of the Woods watershed | 2 |
| Lake of the Woods Lake | 1 |
| Lake of the Woods cross-border region | 1 |
| Lake of the Woods, Minnesota | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T174970 — 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 of the Woods Context triple: [Ontario, bordersWaterBody, Lake of the Woods]
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A.
Walker Lake
Walker Lake is a large natural desert lake in western Nevada known for its shrinking water levels and importance as a habitat for migratory birds and native fish.
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B.
Lake St. Clair
Lake St. Clair is a freshwater lake in the Great Lakes region between Michigan and Ontario, serving as a key link in the St. Lawrence Seaway between Lake Huron and Lake Erie.
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C.
Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan is one of North America’s five Great Lakes, a large freshwater lake bordered by the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
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D.
Menominee River
The Menominee River is a major river forming part of the border between Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, known for its forests, hydroelectric dams, and role as a key tributary in the Great Lakes watershed.
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E.
Lake Macatawa
Lake Macatawa is a freshwater inland lake in western Michigan known for its recreational boating, fishing, and connection to Lake Michigan via a navigable channel.
- 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 of the Woods Target entity description: Lake of the Woods is a large, island-dotted freshwater lake in northwestern Ontario that extends into Manitoba and Minnesota and is known for its fishing, boating, and scenic wilderness.
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A.
Walker Lake
Walker Lake is a large natural desert lake in western Nevada known for its shrinking water levels and importance as a habitat for migratory birds and native fish.
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B.
Lake St. Clair
Lake St. Clair is a freshwater lake in the Great Lakes region between Michigan and Ontario, serving as a key link in the St. Lawrence Seaway between Lake Huron and Lake Erie.
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C.
Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan is one of North America’s five Great Lakes, a large freshwater lake bordered by the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
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D.
Menominee River
The Menominee River is a major river forming part of the border between Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, known for its forests, hydroelectric dams, and role as a key tributary in the Great Lakes watershed.
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E.
Lake Macatawa
Lake Macatawa is a freshwater inland lake in western Michigan known for its recreational boating, fishing, and connection to Lake Michigan via a navigable channel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (82)
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 of the Woods Description of subject: Lake of the Woods is a large, island-dotted freshwater lake in northwestern Ontario that extends into Manitoba and Minnesota and is known for its fishing, boating, and scenic wilderness.
Referenced by (90)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lake of the Woods
linked to: Lake of the Woods
subject linked to:
Warroad, Minnesota, United States
subject linked to:
Warroad, Minnesota, United States
subject linked to:
central Canada
subject linked to:
Oak Island
subject linked to:
Big Island
subject linked to:
Big Island
subject linked to:
Big Island
subject linked to:
Garden Island
subject linked to:
Harbourfront area
subject linked to:
Harbourfront area