Lake Mahopac
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Lake Mahopac is a scenic freshwater lake and residential community area in the town of Carmel in Putnam County, New York, known for boating, fishing, and lakeside recreation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lake Mahopac canonical | 22 |
| Lake Mahopac, Putnam County, New York | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T254605 — 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 Mahopac Context triple: [Westchester County, New York, contains, Lake Mahopac]
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A.
Kensico Reservoir
Kensico Reservoir is a major New York City water supply reservoir located in Westchester County, New York, known for its role in storing and regulating drinking water from the Catskill and Delaware systems.
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B.
Saranac Lake
Saranac Lake is a historic village and resort community in northern New York known for its scenic lakes, outdoor recreation, and role as a former tuberculosis treatment center.
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C.
Titicus Reservoir
Titicus Reservoir is a man-made lake in Westchester County, New York, that serves as one of the key water supply reservoirs for New York City.
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D.
Tioga Lake
Tioga Lake is a high-elevation alpine lake in the Sierra Nevada of California, just east of Yosemite National Park, known for its scenic mountain views and outdoor recreation.
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E.
Fresh Pond
Fresh Pond is a large freshwater reservoir and surrounding parkland in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its walking trails, wildlife, and role in the city's water supply.
- 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 Mahopac Target entity description: Lake Mahopac is a scenic freshwater lake and residential community area in the town of Carmel in Putnam County, New York, known for boating, fishing, and lakeside recreation.
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A.
Kensico Reservoir
Kensico Reservoir is a major New York City water supply reservoir located in Westchester County, New York, known for its role in storing and regulating drinking water from the Catskill and Delaware systems.
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B.
Saranac Lake
Saranac Lake is a historic village and resort community in northern New York known for its scenic lakes, outdoor recreation, and role as a former tuberculosis treatment center.
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C.
Titicus Reservoir
Titicus Reservoir is a man-made lake in Westchester County, New York, that serves as one of the key water supply reservoirs for New York City.
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D.
Tioga Lake
Tioga Lake is a high-elevation alpine lake in the Sierra Nevada of California, just east of Yosemite National Park, known for its scenic mountain views and outdoor recreation.
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E.
Fresh Pond
Fresh Pond is a large freshwater reservoir and surrounding parkland in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its walking trails, wildlife, and role in the city's water supply.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
census-designated place
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freshwater lake ⓘ lake ⓘ residential community ⓘ |
| administrativeTerritory |
Town of Carmel, Putnam County, New York
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linked to:
Town of Carmel
|
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| hasAdjacentInfrastructure |
lakeside businesses
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local roads ⓘ residential neighborhoods ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
lakeside homes
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marinas ⓘ private docks ⓘ public access points ⓘ |
| hasIsland |
Canopus Island
ⓘ
Church Island ⓘ Fairy Island ⓘ Petre Island ⓘ |
| hasRecreationalUseRegulation |
fishing regulations set by New York State
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local boating regulations ⓘ |
| hasShorelineCommunity | Mahopac, New York ⓘ |
| knownFor |
boating
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fishing ⓘ lakeside recreation ⓘ scenic views ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hudson Valley
ⓘ
New York State ⓘ
linked to:
New York
Putnam County, New York ⓘ Town of Carmel ⓘ southeastern New York ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Taconic State Parkway
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U.S. Route 6 ⓘ |
| near |
New York City metropolitan area
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linked to:
New York metropolitan area
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| partOf |
Croton River watershed
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linked to:
Croton Watershed
|
| recreationType |
summer recreation
ⓘ
winter recreation ⓘ |
| region |
Lower Hudson Valley
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linked to:
Hudson Valley
|
| usedFor |
canoeing
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ice fishing ⓘ kayaking ⓘ recreational boating ⓘ sport fishing ⓘ swimming ⓘ waterskiing ⓘ |
| waterType | freshwater ⓘ |
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 Mahopac Description of subject: Lake Mahopac is a scenic freshwater lake and residential community area in the town of Carmel in Putnam County, New York, known for boating, fishing, and lakeside recreation.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lake Mahopac