Spirit Lake, Iowa
E320182
Spirit Lake, Iowa is a small resort city in the Iowa Great Lakes region known for its recreational lakes, tourism, and outdoor activities.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spirit Lake, Iowa canonical | 10 |
| Spirit Lake | 1 |
| Spirit Lake (Iowa) | 1 |
| Spirit Lake (lake) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3010663 — 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: Spirit Lake, Iowa Context triple: [northwestern Iowa, contains, Spirit Lake, Iowa]
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A.
Storm Lake, Iowa
Storm Lake, Iowa is a small city in Buena Vista County known for its namesake glacial lake, diverse population, and presence of Buena Vista University.
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B.
Angle Lake
Angle Lake is a light rail station and surrounding neighborhood in SeaTac, Washington, serving as a southern terminus of Sound Transit’s Link light rail line near Seattle–Tacoma International Airport.
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C.
Big Lake, Minnesota
Big Lake, Minnesota is a small city in Sherburne County that functions as a suburban community northwest of Minneapolis–Saint Paul, known in part for being a terminus and stop on the Northstar commuter rail line.
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D.
Oologah Lake
Oologah Lake is a large reservoir in northeastern Oklahoma known for recreation, flood control, and water supply.
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E.
Coralville Lake
Coralville Lake is a reservoir in Iowa known for recreational activities and for exposing significant geological features such as the nearby Devonian Fossil Gorge.
- 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: Spirit Lake, Iowa Target entity description: Spirit Lake, Iowa is a small resort city in the Iowa Great Lakes region known for its recreational lakes, tourism, and outdoor activities.
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A.
Storm Lake, Iowa
Storm Lake, Iowa is a small city in Buena Vista County known for its namesake glacial lake, diverse population, and presence of Buena Vista University.
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B.
Angle Lake
Angle Lake is a light rail station and surrounding neighborhood in SeaTac, Washington, serving as a southern terminus of Sound Transit’s Link light rail line near Seattle–Tacoma International Airport.
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C.
Big Lake, Minnesota
Big Lake, Minnesota is a small city in Sherburne County that functions as a suburban community northwest of Minneapolis–Saint Paul, known in part for being a terminus and stop on the Northstar commuter rail line.
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D.
Oologah Lake
Oologah Lake is a large reservoir in northeastern Oklahoma known for recreation, flood control, and water supply.
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E.
Coralville Lake
Coralville Lake is a reservoir in Iowa known for recreational activities and for exposing significant geological features such as the nearby Devonian Fossil Gorge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
human settlement ⓘ |
| areaCode | 712 ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| elevation | approximately 1,473 feet ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
hunting in surrounding areas
ⓘ
ice fishing ⓘ snowmobiling ⓘ water sports ⓘ |
| hasAttraction |
Iowa Great Lakes
ⓘ
lakeside resorts ⓘ local marinas ⓘ |
| hasBodyOfWater |
Spirit Lake
ⓘ
surface form:
Spirit Lake (Iowa)
|
| hasIndustry |
hospitality industry
ⓘ
recreation services ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| isLocatedNear |
Lake Okoboji
ⓘ
surface form:
East Okoboji Lake
Lake Okoboji ⓘ
surface form:
West Okoboji Lake
|
| isLocatedOn |
Spirit Lake
ⓘ
surface form:
Spirit Lake (Iowa)
|
| isPartOf | Spirit Lake Community School District ⓘ |
| knownFor |
boating
ⓘ
camping ⓘ fishing ⓘ outdoor recreation ⓘ recreational lakes ⓘ resort tourism ⓘ summer tourism ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Dickinson County, Iowa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Iowa ⓘ Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| partOf | Iowa Great Lakes region ⓘ |
| populationCharacteristic | small city ⓘ |
| postalCode | 51360 ⓘ |
| region | northwestern Iowa ⓘ |
| role | county seat of Dickinson County, Iowa ⓘ |
| state | Iowa ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
| tourismSeason |
summer
ⓘ
winter recreation season ⓘ |
| transportation |
Iowa Highway 9
ⓘ
U.S. Route 71 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Spirit Lake, Iowa Description of subject: Spirit Lake, Iowa is a small resort city in the Iowa Great Lakes region known for its recreational lakes, tourism, and outdoor activities.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Spirit Lake (Iowa)
this entity surface form:
Spirit Lake
this entity surface form:
Spirit Lake (lake)