Lake Erie
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Lake Erie is one of North America's five Great Lakes, known for its relatively shallow depth, rich fisheries, and major role in regional shipping and recreation.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lake Erie canonical | 744 |
| Lake Erie (in western New York) | 1 |
| Lake Erie (nearby) | 1 |
| Lake Erie (regional proximity) | 1 |
| Lake Erie (regionally nearby) | 1 |
| Lake Erie (via Dunkirk, New York) | 1 |
| Lake Erie shoreline | 1 |
| Western Lake Erie basin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16864 — 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 Erie Context triple: [North America, hasMajorLake, Lake Erie]
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A.
Lake Huron
Lake Huron is one of North America's five Great Lakes, known for its vast size, clear waters, and extensive shoreline dotted with islands, including Manitoulin Island, the world's largest freshwater island.
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B.
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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C.
Lake Superior
Lake Superior is the largest and northernmost of North America's Great Lakes, renowned for its vast size, cold clear waters, and rugged surrounding shoreline.
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D.
Great Lakes
The Great Lakes are a chain of five vast freshwater lakes in North America that form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth by total area and are a critical hub for transportation, industry, and ecology.
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E.
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.
- 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 Erie Target entity description: Lake Erie is one of North America's five Great Lakes, known for its relatively shallow depth, rich fisheries, and major role in regional shipping and recreation.
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A.
Lake Huron
Lake Huron is one of North America's five Great Lakes, known for its vast size, clear waters, and extensive shoreline dotted with islands, including Manitoulin Island, the world's largest freshwater island.
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B.
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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C.
Lake Superior
Lake Superior is the largest and northernmost of North America's Great Lakes, renowned for its vast size, cold clear waters, and rugged surrounding shoreline.
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D.
Great Lakes
The Great Lakes are a chain of five vast freshwater lakes in North America that form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth by total area and are a critical hub for transportation, industry, and ecology.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Great Lake
ⓘ
border lake ⓘ lake ⓘ |
| averageDepth |
about 19 meters
ⓘ
about 62 feet ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
Canada
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| bordersProvince | Ontario ⓘ |
| bordersState |
New York
ⓘ
Ohio ⓘ Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Lake Huron
ⓘ
Lake Ontario ⓘ |
| countryBorder |
Canada
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| elevationAboveSeaLevel |
about 174 meters
ⓘ
about 571 feet ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentalIssue |
algal blooms
ⓘ
eutrophication ⓘ |
| hasFishSpecies |
smallmouth bass
ⓘ
walleye ⓘ yellow perch ⓘ |
| hasIslandGroup | Lake Erie Islands ⓘ |
| hasMajorPort |
Buffalo
ⓘ
Cleveland ⓘ Detroit ⓘ Erie ⓘ Toledo ⓘ |
| inflowsFrom | Detroit River ⓘ |
| knownFor |
recreation
ⓘ
regional shipping ⓘ relatively shallow depth ⓘ rich fisheries ⓘ |
| locatedIn | North America ⓘ |
| maximumDepth |
about 210 feet
ⓘ
about 64 meters ⓘ |
| outflowsTo |
Niagara River
ⓘ
Welland Canal ⓘ |
| partOf | Great Lakes ⓘ |
| rankBySurfaceAreaInGreatLakes | fourth largest ⓘ |
| rankByVolumeInGreatLakes | smallest ⓘ |
| surfaceArea |
approximately 25,700 square kilometers
ⓘ
approximately 9,910 square miles ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial shipping
ⓘ
drinking water supply ⓘ recreational boating ⓘ sport fishing ⓘ |
| volume |
approximately 116 cubic miles
ⓘ
approximately 484 cubic kilometers ⓘ |
| 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 Erie Description of subject: Lake Erie is one of North America's five Great Lakes, known for its relatively shallow depth, rich fisheries, and major role in regional shipping and recreation.
Referenced by (751)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lake Erie
subject linked to:
Lorain, Ohio, United States
subject linked to:
Lorain, Ohio, United States
subject linked to:
containing Manitoulin Island, the world’s largest freshwater island
linked to: Lake Erie