Lake Rayburn (Sam Rayburn Reservoir)
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Lake Rayburn, also known as Sam Rayburn Reservoir, is a large man-made lake in East Texas popular for fishing, boating, and other recreational activities.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam Rayburn Reservoir | 3 |
| Lake Rayburn | 1 |
| Lake Rayburn (Sam Rayburn Reservoir) canonical | 1 |
| Sam Rayburn Lake | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1559176 — 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 Rayburn (Sam Rayburn Reservoir) Context triple: [Sam Rayburn, honorificEponym, Lake Rayburn (Sam Rayburn Reservoir)]
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A.
Ray Roberts Lake
Ray Roberts Lake is a large reservoir in North Texas popular for fishing, boating, and outdoor recreation within Ray Roberts Lake State Park.
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B.
Lady Bird Lake
Lady Bird Lake is a popular reservoir and recreational waterfront in downtown Austin, Texas, known for its scenic trails, kayaking, and skyline views.
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C.
Lake Travis
Lake Travis is a large, popular reservoir on the Colorado River in central Texas known for boating, fishing, and waterfront recreation near Austin.
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D.
White Rock Lake
White Rock Lake is a large urban reservoir and popular recreational area in east Dallas, Texas, known for its scenic trails, wildlife, and views of the city.
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E.
Lewisville Lake
Lewisville Lake is a large North Texas reservoir popular for boating, fishing, and recreation, located near the city of Lewisville in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area.
- 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 Rayburn (Sam Rayburn Reservoir) Target entity description: Lake Rayburn, also known as Sam Rayburn Reservoir, is a large man-made lake in East Texas popular for fishing, boating, and other recreational activities.
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A.
Ray Roberts Lake
Ray Roberts Lake is a large reservoir in North Texas popular for fishing, boating, and outdoor recreation within Ray Roberts Lake State Park.
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B.
Lady Bird Lake
Lady Bird Lake is a popular reservoir and recreational waterfront in downtown Austin, Texas, known for its scenic trails, kayaking, and skyline views.
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C.
Lake Travis
Lake Travis is a large, popular reservoir on the Colorado River in central Texas known for boating, fishing, and waterfront recreation near Austin.
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D.
White Rock Lake
White Rock Lake is a large urban reservoir and popular recreational area in east Dallas, Texas, known for its scenic trails, wildlife, and views of the city.
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E.
Lewisville Lake
Lewisville Lake is a large North Texas reservoir popular for boating, fishing, and recreation, located near the city of Lewisville in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
man-made lake
ⓘ
reservoir ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Lake Rayburn (Sam Rayburn Reservoir)
ⓘ
surface form:
Lake Rayburn
Lake Rayburn (Sam Rayburn Reservoir) ⓘ
surface form:
Sam Rayburn Lake
|
| basinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| completionDate | 1965 ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1956 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Sam Rayburn Dam ⓘ |
| fishSpecies |
catfish
ⓘ
crappie ⓘ largemouth bass ⓘ sunfish ⓘ |
| hasDam | Sam Rayburn Dam ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
campgrounds
ⓘ
marinas ⓘ picnic areas ⓘ public boat ramps ⓘ |
| inflow | Angelina River ⓘ |
| isPopularFor | bass fishing tournaments ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Angelina County, Texas
ⓘ
East Texas ⓘ Jasper County, Texas ⓘ Nacogdoches County, Texas ⓘ Sabine River ⓘ
surface form:
Sabine River Basin
Texas ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Angelina River ⓘ |
| managingAgency |
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District
|
| maximumDepth | approximately 80 feet ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Sam Rayburn ⓘ |
| nearCity |
Jasper, Texas, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Jasper, Texas
Lufkin, Texas ⓘ |
| operator | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ⓘ |
| outflow | Angelina River ⓘ |
| partOf |
Neches River
ⓘ
surface form:
Neches-Angelina river system
|
| purpose |
flood control
ⓘ
hydroelectric power ⓘ recreation ⓘ water supply ⓘ |
| recreationActivity |
boating
ⓘ
camping ⓘ fishing ⓘ swimming ⓘ water sports ⓘ |
| region |
Piney Woods
ⓘ
surface form:
Piney Woods of Texas
|
| surfaceArea |
approximately 114,500 acres
ⓘ
approximately 463 square kilometers ⓘ |
| waterBodyType | freshwater lake ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Rayburn (Sam Rayburn Reservoir) Description of subject: Lake Rayburn, also known as Sam Rayburn Reservoir, is a large man-made lake in East Texas popular for fishing, boating, and other recreational activities.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sam Rayburn Reservoir
this entity surface form:
Lake Rayburn
subject surface form:
Sam Rayburn Reservoir
this entity surface form:
Sam Rayburn Lake
this entity surface form:
Sam Rayburn Reservoir
this entity surface form:
Sam Rayburn Reservoir
this entity surface form:
Sam Rayburn Reservoir