Lake Superior
E1205
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.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lake Superior canonical | 428 |
| Lac Supérieur | 1 |
| Lake Superior (near its northern end) | 1 |
| Lake Superior (southern shore) | 1 |
| Lake Superior main basin | 1 |
| Lake Superior near Skanee, Michigan | 1 |
| Northern Lake Superior | 1 |
| Western Lake Superior | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16861 — 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 Superior Context triple: [North America, hasMajorLake, Lake Superior]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Lake Tear of the Clouds
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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E.
South Lake Tahoe
South Lake Tahoe is a resort city in California known for its access to Lake Tahoe’s beaches, ski resorts, and outdoor recreation.
- 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 Superior Target entity description: 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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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Lake Tear of the Clouds
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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E.
South Lake Tahoe
South Lake Tahoe is a resort city in California known for its access to Lake Tahoe’s beaches, ski resorts, and outdoor recreation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (69)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Great Lake
ⓘ
freshwater lake ⓘ lake ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| borderedBy |
Michigan (most of state)
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan
Minnesota ⓘ Ontario ⓘ Wisconsin ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| drainsInto | Lake Huron ⓘ |
| hasArea |
approximately 31,700 square miles
ⓘ
approximately 82,100 square kilometers ⓘ |
| hasAverageDepth |
approximately 147 meters
ⓘ
approximately 483 feet ⓘ |
| hasCatchmentArea |
approximately 209,000 square kilometers
ⓘ
approximately 80,600 square miles ⓘ |
| hasIsland |
Apostle Islands
ⓘ
Isle Royale ⓘ Michipicoten Island ⓘ St. Ignace Island ⓘ |
| hasMajorPort |
Duluth
ⓘ
Marquette ⓘ Marquette ⓘ
surface form:
Sault Ste. Marie
Thunder Bay ⓘ |
| hasMaximumDepth |
approximately 1,333 feet
ⓘ
approximately 406 meters ⓘ |
| hasNationalLakeshore |
Apostle Islands
ⓘ
surface form:
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore ⓘ |
| hasNationalParkOnIsland |
Isle Royale
ⓘ
surface form:
Isle Royale National Park
|
| hasNativeName | Gichigami ⓘ |
| hasNativeNameLanguage |
Algonquian languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Ojibwe
|
| hasOutflow | St. Marys River ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryInflow |
Michipicoten River
ⓘ
Nipigon River ⓘ Pic River ⓘ Pigeon River ⓘ St. Louis River ⓘ White River ⓘ |
| hasResidenceTime | approximately 191 years ⓘ |
| hasShorelineLength |
approximately 2,700 miles
ⓘ
approximately 4,300 kilometers ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceElevation |
approximately 183 meters above sea level
ⓘ
approximately 600 feet above sea level ⓘ |
| hasVolume |
approximately 12,100 cubic kilometers
ⓘ
approximately 2,900 cubic miles ⓘ |
| isImportantFor |
commercial shipping
ⓘ
freshwater supply ⓘ recreational fishing ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| isLargestOf | Great Lakes ⓘ |
| isNorthernmostOf | Great Lakes ⓘ |
| isPartOfWaterway |
Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system
ⓘ
surface form:
Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Seaway
|
| isWorldRankByArea | largest freshwater lake by surface area ⓘ |
| isWorldRankByVolume | third-largest freshwater lake by volume ⓘ |
| knownFor |
clear water
ⓘ
cold water temperatures ⓘ frequent storms ⓘ maritime shipwrecks ⓘ rugged shoreline ⓘ |
| locatedIn | North America ⓘ |
| locatedOnBorderOf |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| nameMeaning | “Great Lake” in Ojibwe context ⓘ |
| partOf | Great Lakes ⓘ |
| surfaceFreezesPartiallyIn | winter ⓘ |
| 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 Superior Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (435)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lake Superior near Skanee, Michigan
subject surface form:
Highway 17 (Ontario)
subject surface form:
Highway 17 (Ontario)
subject surface form:
Highway 17 (Ontario)
subject surface form:
Sand Island (Apostle Islands)
subject surface form:
Sand Island (Apostle Islands)
subject surface form:
Sand Island (Apostle Islands)