Lake Champlain
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Lake Champlain is a large freshwater lake in the northeastern United States and southern Canada, known for its scenic beauty, rich biodiversity, and significant role in regional history and recreation.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lake Champlain canonical | 122 |
| Lake Champlain (regional proximity) | 1 |
| Lake Champlain basin | 1 |
| Lake Champlain region | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T42946 — 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 Champlain Context triple: [Adirondack Mountains, adjacentTo, Lake Champlain]
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A.
Lake Ontario
Lake Ontario is one of North America's five Great Lakes, forming part of the border between the United States and Canada and serving as a key link in the Saint Lawrence River system.
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B.
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.
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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 Lake
The Great Lake is an expansive ornamental body of water forming a dramatic focal point within the landscaped grounds of Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England.
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E.
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.
- 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 Champlain Target entity description: Lake Champlain is a large freshwater lake in the northeastern United States and southern Canada, known for its scenic beauty, rich biodiversity, and significant role in regional history and recreation.
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A.
Lake Ontario
Lake Ontario is one of North America's five Great Lakes, forming part of the border between the United States and Canada and serving as a key link in the Saint Lawrence River system.
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B.
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.
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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 Lake
The Great Lake is an expansive ornamental body of water forming a dramatic focal point within the landscaped grounds of Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (78)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
freshwater lake
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lake ⓘ |
| averageDepth | about 19 meters GENERATED ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
Canada
GENERATED
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United States of America GENERATED ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
New York
GENERATED
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Quebec GENERATED ⓘ Vermont GENERATED ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Hudson River via Champlain Canal
GENERATED
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Saint Lawrence River via Richelieu River GENERATED ⓘ |
| country |
Canada
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfEuropeanDiscovery | 1609 GENERATED ⓘ |
| discoveredByEuropeans | Samuel de Champlain GENERATED ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel |
about 29 meters
GENERATED
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about 95 feet GENERATED ⓘ |
| environmentalIssue |
harmful algal blooms
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phosphorus pollution GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasAllegedCreature | Champ GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasBridge | Lake Champlain Bridge GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasCityOnShore |
Burlington, Vermont
GENERATED
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Plattsburgh, New York GENERATED ⓘ Rouses Point, New York GENERATED ⓘ Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasFerryService | Lake Champlain Transportation Company GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasFishSpecies |
lake trout
GENERATED
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landlocked Atlantic salmon GENERATED ⓘ largemouth bass GENERATED ⓘ northern pike GENERATED ⓘ smallmouth bass GENERATED ⓘ walleye GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalEvent |
Battle of Valcour Island
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War of 1812 naval actions GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasIsland |
Grand Isle
GENERATED
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Isle La Motte GENERATED ⓘ North Hero GENERATED ⓘ South Hero GENERATED ⓘ Valcour Island GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasProtectedArea |
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
GENERATED
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Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge GENERATED ⓘ |
| inflow |
Ausable River
GENERATED
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Boquet River GENERATED ⓘ Lamoille River GENERATED ⓘ Missisquoi River GENERATED ⓘ Otter Creek GENERATED ⓘ Richelieu River GENERATED ⓘ Saranac River GENERATED ⓘ Winooski River GENERATED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
biodiversity
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fishing GENERATED ⓘ historic military significance GENERATED ⓘ recreational boating GENERATED ⓘ scenic beauty GENERATED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New York
GENERATED
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North America GENERATED ⓘ Quebec GENERATED ⓘ Vermont GENERATED ⓘ northeastern United States GENERATED ⓘ southern Canada GENERATED ⓘ |
| locatedInEcoregion | temperate broadleaf and mixed forests GENERATED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
UTC−04:00
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UTC−05:00 GENERATED ⓘ |
| maximumDepth |
about 122 meters
GENERATED
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about 400 feet GENERATED ⓘ |
| maximumLength |
about 125 miles
GENERATED
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about 201 kilometers GENERATED ⓘ |
| maximumWidth |
about 14 miles
GENERATED
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about 23 kilometers GENERATED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Samuel de Champlain GENERATED ⓘ |
| outflow | Richelieu River GENERATED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Champlain Valley
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Saint Lawrence River drainage basin GENERATED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Lake Champlain Basin Program GENERATED ⓘ |
| surfaceArea |
about 1,269 square kilometers
GENERATED
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about 490 square miles GENERATED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial navigation
GENERATED
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drinking water supply GENERATED ⓘ recreation GENERATED ⓘ |
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 Champlain Description of subject: Lake Champlain is a large freshwater lake in the northeastern United States and southern Canada, known for its scenic beauty, rich biodiversity, and significant role in regional history and recreation.
Referenced by (125)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Town of Peru, New York
subject surface form:
Town of Peru, New York
subject surface form:
Town of Peru, New York
this entity surface form:
Lake Champlain (regional proximity)
subject surface form:
Onion River