lake

C216
concept

A lake is a sizable, inland body of standing water, typically surrounded by land and fed by rivers, streams, precipitation, or groundwater.

All labels observed (100)

Label Occurrences
lake canonical 1,916
dam 428
glacial lake 259

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: lake
Generated description
A lake is a sizable, inland body of standing water, typically surrounded by land and fed by rivers, streams, precipitation, or groundwater.

Instances (2,884)

Instance Via concept surface
Greenwood Lake glacial lake
Loch Fad
Walled Lake natural lake
Grunewaldsee
Langer See
Loch nEathach
Lake Gogebic
Walterville Dam dam
Dämeritzsee
Dierkes Lake
Astotin Lake
Möhne Dam dam
Weißer See
Rippowam Lake
Totensee
Heart Lake
surface form: Heart Lake (New York)
Loch Faskally
Kenai Lake glacial lake
Sefid-Rud Dam dam
Century Lake
Walden Pond (Lynn)
Lake Harney
Étang de l’Or natural lake
Black Lake (Crno jezero) glacial lake
Beyşehir
surface form: Lake Beyşehir
Teatown Lake
Shellmouth Dam dam
Blue Cypress Lake
Issyk-Kul
Nam Ngum 2 Hydropower Project dam
Lake Koroneia
Durmitor mountain range
surface form: Black Lake
glacial lake
Orankesee
Nam Ngum 3 Dam dam
Segara Anak crater lake
surface form: Segara Anak
crater lake
Segara Anak lake
surface form: Segara Anak
crater lake
Nam Ngum 4 Dam dam
Lake Volvi
Nam Ngum 5 Dam dam
Middlefield, Connecticut
surface form: Lake Beseck
Geneva Lake glacial lake
Lake Möckeln
Silver Lake
surface form: Silver Lake (Lynn, Massachusetts)
Lake Lanao
Sorpe Dam dam
Lower Hamilton Lake glacial lake
Brouwers Dam dam
Eagle Lake (Hamilton County, New York)
Evolution Lake glacial lake
Lake Viken