Lake Michigan
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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.
All labels observed (22)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5485 — 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 Michigan Context triple: [Chicago, Illinois, United States, locatedOn, Lake Michigan]
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A.
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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B.
Hudson River
The Hudson River is a major waterway in eastern New York State that flows south past cities like Albany and New York City before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at New York Harbor.
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C.
Clay Pit Pond
Clay Pit Pond is a small, man-made body of water in Belmont, Massachusetts, known as a local recreational and scenic spot surrounded by walking paths and parkland.
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D.
Delano
Delano is the middle name of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States.
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E.
Douglas
Douglas is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
- 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 Michigan Target entity description: 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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A.
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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B.
Hudson River
The Hudson River is a major waterway in eastern New York State that flows south past cities like Albany and New York City before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at New York Harbor.
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C.
Clay Pit Pond
Clay Pit Pond is a small, man-made body of water in Belmont, Massachusetts, known as a local recreational and scenic spot surrounded by walking paths and parkland.
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D.
Delano
Delano is the middle name of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States.
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E.
Douglas
Douglas is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (68)
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 Michigan Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (808)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Van Buren County, Michigan
subject surface form:
Van Buren County, Michigan
this entity surface form:
Lake Michigan (eastern end)
subject surface form:
Carthage College
this entity surface form:
Great Lakes
this entity surface form:
Lake Michigan, Chicago
subject surface form:
Mackinac Bridge
subject surface form:
Traverse City State Park
this entity surface form:
Lake Michigan (regional proximity)