Lake Tear of the Clouds
E524
Lake Tear of the Clouds is a small mountain tarn on the slopes of New York’s Mount Marcy, historically recognized as the highest-elevation source of the Hudson River.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lake Tear of the Clouds canonical | 3 |
| Lake Tear of the Clouds area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3854 — 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 Tear of the Clouds Context triple: [Hudson River, source, Lake Tear of the Clouds]
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A.
Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe is a large, deep, and famously clear freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains, straddling the border of California and Nevada and serving as a major destination for outdoor recreation and tourism.
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B.
Clay Pit Pond
Clay Pit Pond is a small, man-made body of water in Belmont, Massachusetts, known as a local recreational and scenic spot surrounded by walking paths and parkland.
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C.
Mount Whitney
Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States, located in the Sierra Nevada range of eastern California.
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D.
Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park is a renowned U.S. national park in the Sierra Nevada mountains, famous for its dramatic granite cliffs, waterfalls, giant sequoias, and diverse wilderness.
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E.
Hudson River
The Hudson River is a major waterway in eastern New York State that flows south past cities like Albany and New York City before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at New York Harbor.
- 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 Tear of the Clouds Target entity description: Lake Tear of the Clouds is a small mountain tarn on the slopes of New York’s Mount Marcy, historically recognized as the highest-elevation source of the Hudson River.
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A.
Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe is a large, deep, and famously clear freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains, straddling the border of California and Nevada and serving as a major destination for outdoor recreation and tourism.
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B.
Clay Pit Pond
Clay Pit Pond is a small, man-made body of water in Belmont, Massachusetts, known as a local recreational and scenic spot surrounded by walking paths and parkland.
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C.
Mount Whitney
Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States, located in the Sierra Nevada range of eastern California.
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D.
Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park is a renowned U.S. national park in the Sierra Nevada mountains, famous for its dramatic granite cliffs, waterfalls, giant sequoias, and diverse wilderness.
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E.
Hudson River
The Hudson River is a major waterway in eastern New York State that flows south past cities like Albany and New York City before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at New York Harbor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
headwater source
ⓘ
lake ⓘ mountain tarn ⓘ |
| access | hiking only ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| drainageBasin | Hudson River basin ⓘ |
| elevation |
approximately 1346 meters
ⓘ
approximately 4418 feet ⓘ |
| highestSourceOf | Hudson River ⓘ |
| historicallyRecognizedAs | highest-elevation source of the Hudson River ⓘ |
| hydrologicallyFeeds | Hudson River ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Adirondack Mountains
ⓘ
Essex County, New York ⓘ High Peaks region ⓘ
linked to:
Adirondack Mountains
New York State ⓘ
linked to:
New York
Town of Keene, New York ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locatedInProtectedArea |
Adirondack Park
ⓘ
linked to:
Adirondack Mountains
|
| locatedOn | southwestern slope of Mount Marcy ⓘ |
| near |
Mount Marcy summit
ⓘ
linked to:
Adirondack Mountains
|
| notableFor |
being a traditional headwater of the Hudson River
ⓘ
high-elevation alpine setting ⓘ |
| partOf |
Hudson River watershed
ⓘ
linked to:
Hudson River
|
| region | Northeastern United States ⓘ |
| sourceOf |
Feldspar Brook
ⓘ
Opalescent River ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| typeOfWaterBody | freshwater lake ⓘ |
| watercourse |
Feldspar Brook
ⓘ
Opalescent River ⓘ |
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 Tear of the Clouds Description of subject: Lake Tear of the Clouds is a small mountain tarn on the slopes of New York’s Mount Marcy, historically recognized as the highest-elevation source of the Hudson River.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lake Tear of the Clouds