Koko Nor
E424412
Koko Nor, also known as Qinghai Lake, is the largest saltwater lake in China, located on the northeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Koko Nor canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4255124 — 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: Koko Nor Context triple: [Qinghai, contains, Koko Nor]
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A.
Koko
Koko is a popular Afrobeat/afropop song by Nigerian musician D'banj that helped cement his status as a leading figure in contemporary African music.
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B.
Koko
Koko is a prominent Itsekiri town in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, known historically as a key riverine trading and port community.
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C.
Kiko
Kiko is a critically acclaimed 1992 studio album by the American rock band Los Lobos, noted for its experimental sound and rich, atmospheric production.
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D.
Kiko
Kiko is the Crown Princess of Japan and the wife of Crown Prince Akishino, a prominent member of the Japanese imperial family.
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E.
Kiko
Kiko is the young, albino giant ape who serves as the gentle offspring and companion of King Kong in the 1933 film "Son of Kong."
- 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: Koko Nor Target entity description: Koko Nor, also known as Qinghai Lake, is the largest saltwater lake in China, located on the northeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau.
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A.
Koko
Koko is a popular Afrobeat/afropop song by Nigerian musician D'banj that helped cement his status as a leading figure in contemporary African music.
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B.
Koko
Koko is a prominent Itsekiri town in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, known historically as a key riverine trading and port community.
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C.
Kiko
Kiko is a critically acclaimed 1992 studio album by the American rock band Los Lobos, noted for its experimental sound and rich, atmospheric production.
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D.
Kiko
Kiko is the Crown Princess of Japan and the wife of Crown Prince Akishino, a prominent member of the Japanese imperial family.
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E.
Kiko
Kiko is the young, albino giant ape who serves as the gentle offspring and companion of King Kong in the 1933 film "Son of Kong."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
endorheic lake
ⓘ
natural lake ⓘ salt lake ⓘ |
| administrativeRegion |
Haidong Prefecture
ⓘ
linked to:
Haidong
Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture ⓘ
linked to:
Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
|
| alsoKnownAs |
Kokonor
ⓘ
Qinghai Lake ⓘ Tso Ngonpo ⓘ Tso Ngön ⓘ |
| area | about 4,300 square kilometers ⓘ |
| basinCountry | China ⓘ |
| climate | cold semi-arid ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| drainageType | endorheic basin ⓘ |
| ecoregion |
Qinghai Lake ecoregion
ⓘ
linked to:
Qinghai Lake National Nature Reserve
|
| elevation | about 3,200 meters above sea level ⓘ |
| frozenPeriod | partly frozen in winter ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
important stopover on East Asian–Australasian Flyway
ⓘ
surrounded by grasslands and semi-desert ⓘ |
| hasIsland |
Bird Island
ⓘ
Haixin Shan ⓘ |
| hasShoreline | about 360 kilometers ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
featured in ancient Chinese records
ⓘ
important in Tibetan and Mongol culture ⓘ |
| inflow |
Buha River
ⓘ
Haergai River ⓘ Shaliu River ⓘ |
| isLargest |
largest lake in China by area
ⓘ
largest saltwater lake in China ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Qinghai Lake Basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Qinghai Lake
|
| knownFor |
high-altitude scenery
ⓘ
migratory bird habitat ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Qinghai Province
ⓘ
linked to:
Qinghai
northwestern China ⓘ
linked to:
Northwest China
|
| locatedOn | northeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau ⓘ |
| maximumDepth | about 25 meters ⓘ |
| nameLanguage | Mongolian ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | Blue Lake ⓘ |
| nearCity | Xining ⓘ |
| outflow | none ⓘ |
| protectedStatus | nature reserve ⓘ |
| region |
Amdo region of the Tibetan cultural area
ⓘ
linked to:
Gansu Tibetan areas
|
| salinity | about 12 to 14 grams per liter ⓘ |
| shape | roughly oval ⓘ |
| usedFor |
fishing
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| waterType | saline ⓘ |
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: Koko Nor Description of subject: Koko Nor, also known as Qinghai Lake, is the largest saltwater lake in China, located on the northeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.