Lake Nicaragua
E14992
Lake Nicaragua is the largest freshwater lake in Central America, known for its volcanic islands, biodiversity, and connection to both the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean via the San Juan River.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lake Nicaragua canonical | 55 |
| Cocibolca (Lake Nicaragua) | 3 |
| Lago de Nicaragua | 2 |
| Lake Nicaragua basin | 2 |
| Lake Nicaragua shoreline | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T131943 — 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 Nicaragua Context triple: [Central America, hasMajorLake, Lake Nicaragua]
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A.
Lake Titicaca
Lake Titicaca is a large, high-altitude freshwater lake in the Andes on the border of Peru and Bolivia, renowned as one of the world’s highest navigable lakes and a cradle of pre-Columbian civilizations.
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B.
Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria is a vast freshwater lake in East Africa, bordered by Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya, and is renowned as the world’s largest tropical lake and a vital regional resource.
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C.
Lake Carnegie
Lake Carnegie is a man-made lake in Princeton, New Jersey, best known as a rowing and recreational waterway associated with Princeton University.
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D.
Valley of Mexico
The Valley of Mexico is a highland basin in central Mexico that historically hosted several major pre-Columbian civilizations and today contains the country’s largest urban concentration.
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E.
Lake Erie
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.
- 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 Nicaragua Target entity description: Lake Nicaragua is the largest freshwater lake in Central America, known for its volcanic islands, biodiversity, and connection to both the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean via the San Juan River.
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A.
Lake Titicaca
Lake Titicaca is a large, high-altitude freshwater lake in the Andes on the border of Peru and Bolivia, renowned as one of the world’s highest navigable lakes and a cradle of pre-Columbian civilizations.
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B.
Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria is a vast freshwater lake in East Africa, bordered by Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya, and is renowned as the world’s largest tropical lake and a vital regional resource.
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C.
Lake Carnegie
Lake Carnegie is a man-made lake in Princeton, New Jersey, best known as a rowing and recreational waterway associated with Princeton University.
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D.
Valley of Mexico
The Valley of Mexico is a highland basin in central Mexico that historically hosted several major pre-Columbian civilizations and today contains the country’s largest urban concentration.
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E.
Lake Erie
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 Nicaragua Description of subject: Lake Nicaragua is the largest freshwater lake in Central America, known for its volcanic islands, biodiversity, and connection to both the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean via the San Juan River.
Referenced by (63)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Southwestern Nicaragua
subject surface form:
Southwestern Nicaragua
this entity surface form:
Cocibolca (Lake Nicaragua)
subject surface form:
Santo Domingo (Ometepe)
subject surface form:
Santo Domingo (Ometepe)