Lake Assad
E413979
Lake Assad is Syria’s largest artificial lake, created on the Euphrates River to provide water storage, irrigation, and hydroelectric power.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lake Assad canonical | 7 |
| Lake Assad reservoir | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4108162 — 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 Assad Context triple: [Tabqa Dam, formsReservoir, Lake Assad]
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A.
Al Habbaniyah Lake
Al Habbaniyah Lake is a large artificial reservoir in central Iraq, known for its recreational facilities and role in irrigation and flood control.
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B.
Sea of Galilee
The Sea of Galilee is a large freshwater lake in northeastern Israel, historically and religiously significant in Judaism and Christianity and a key site in the New Testament.
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C.
Lake Qarun
Lake Qarun is a saline lake in Egypt’s Faiyum Depression, known for its ancient history, rich biodiversity, and importance as a protected wetland and bird habitat.
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D.
Lake Tuz
Lake Tuz is a large, shallow hypersaline lake in central Turkey known for its extensive salt flats and ecological importance as a habitat for migratory birds.
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E.
Lake Timsah
Lake Timsah is a saltwater lake in northeastern Egypt that forms part of the Suez Canal route and borders the city of Ismailia.
- 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 Assad Target entity description: Lake Assad is Syria’s largest artificial lake, created on the Euphrates River to provide water storage, irrigation, and hydroelectric power.
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A.
Al Habbaniyah Lake
Al Habbaniyah Lake is a large artificial reservoir in central Iraq, known for its recreational facilities and role in irrigation and flood control.
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B.
Sea of Galilee
The Sea of Galilee is a large freshwater lake in northeastern Israel, historically and religiously significant in Judaism and Christianity and a key site in the New Testament.
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C.
Lake Qarun
Lake Qarun is a saline lake in Egypt’s Faiyum Depression, known for its ancient history, rich biodiversity, and importance as a protected wetland and bird habitat.
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D.
Lake Tuz
Lake Tuz is a large, shallow hypersaline lake in central Turkey known for its extensive salt flats and ecological importance as a habitat for migratory birds.
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E.
Lake Timsah
Lake Timsah is a saltwater lake in northeastern Egypt that forms part of the Suez Canal route and borders the city of Ismailia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artificial lake
ⓘ
reservoir ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Syria ⓘ |
| climateZone | semi-arid ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Syria ⓘ |
| createdBy | Tabqa Dam ⓘ |
| createdForProject |
Euphrates Dam Project
ⓘ
linked to:
Tabqa Dam
|
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | approximately 304 m ⓘ |
| energyInfrastructure |
Tabqa hydroelectric power station
ⓘ
linked to:
Tabqa Dam
|
| formedByConstructionOf | Tabqa Dam ⓘ |
| geographicCoordinateSystem | WGS84 ⓘ |
| hasIsland |
Jazirat al-Ayd
ⓘ
Jazirat al-Thawrah ⓘ |
| hasShorelineUse |
agricultural land reclamation
ⓘ
settlements relocation area ⓘ |
| isLargestReservoirOf | Syria ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Aleppo Governorate
ⓘ
Raqqa Governorate ⓘ
linked to:
Raqqa
|
| locatedInProtectedArea | Al-Jabbul Lake–Euphrates wetlands region ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Al-Thawrah
ⓘ
Raqqa ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver |
Euphrates River
ⓘ
linked to:
Euphrates
|
| maximumLength | approximately 80 km ⓘ |
| maximumWidth | approximately 8 km ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Hafez al-Assad ⓘ |
| nearbyInfrastructure |
Aleppo–Raqqa road
ⓘ
Tabqa city ⓘ |
| outflow |
Euphrates River
ⓘ
linked to:
Euphrates
|
| partOf |
Euphrates basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Euphrates
Syrian national water resources system ⓘ |
| purpose |
hydroelectric power generation
ⓘ
irrigation ⓘ water storage ⓘ |
| region |
Northern Syria
ⓘ
linked to:
northern Syria
|
| reservoirCapacity | approximately 11.7 billion cubic meters ⓘ |
| startDate | 1970 ⓘ |
| surfaceArea | approximately 610 km² ⓘ |
| totalCapacity | approximately 11.7 km³ ⓘ |
| use |
agricultural irrigation
ⓘ
drinking water supply ⓘ fisheries ⓘ |
| watercourse |
Euphrates River
ⓘ
linked to:
Euphrates
|
| waterManagementFunction |
flood control
ⓘ
flow regulation of Euphrates ⓘ |
| 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
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Input
Subject: Lake Assad Description of subject: Lake Assad is Syria’s largest artificial lake, created on the Euphrates River to provide water storage, irrigation, and hydroelectric power.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.