Qinghai Lake

E424411

endorheic lake inland lake salt lake tourist attraction

Qinghai Lake is China’s largest inland and saltwater lake, renowned for its striking high-altitude scenery and rich birdlife on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Qinghai Lake canonical	5
Qinghai Lake Basin	2

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4255120 — 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: Qinghai Lake
Context triple: [Qinghai, knownFor, Qinghai Lake]

A. Hulun Lake
Hulun Lake is one of northern China’s largest freshwater lakes, located in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia near the border with Mongolia and Russia.
B. Dian Lake
Dian Lake is a large freshwater lake in Yunnan Province, China, known as the "Pearl of the Plateau" and historically vital to the city of Kunming for transportation, fisheries, and irrigation.
C. Poyang Lake
Poyang Lake is China’s largest freshwater lake, renowned for its rich biodiversity, seasonal water level changes, and importance as a wintering habitat for migratory birds.
D. Liuye Lake
Liuye Lake is a scenic freshwater lake and popular leisure destination in Changde, Hunan Province, known for its natural beauty and recreational activities.
E. Loktak Lake
Loktak Lake is the largest freshwater lake in Northeast India, renowned for its floating phumdis and the Keibul Lamjao floating national park that is home to the endangered sangai deer.
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: Qinghai Lake
Target entity description: Qinghai Lake is China’s largest inland and saltwater lake, renowned for its striking high-altitude scenery and rich birdlife on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau.

A. Hulun Lake
Hulun Lake is one of northern China’s largest freshwater lakes, located in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia near the border with Mongolia and Russia.
B. Dian Lake
Dian Lake is a large freshwater lake in Yunnan Province, China, known as the "Pearl of the Plateau" and historically vital to the city of Kunming for transportation, fisheries, and irrigation.
C. Poyang Lake
Poyang Lake is China’s largest freshwater lake, renowned for its rich biodiversity, seasonal water level changes, and importance as a wintering habitat for migratory birds.
D. Liuye Lake
Liuye Lake is a scenic freshwater lake and popular leisure destination in Changde, Hunan Province, known for its natural beauty and recreational activities.
E. Loktak Lake
Loktak Lake is the largest freshwater lake in Northeast India, renowned for its floating phumdis and the Keibul Lamjao floating national park that is home to the endangered sangai deer.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	endorheic lake ⓘ inland lake ⓘ salt lake ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ
area	approximately 4300 square kilometers ⓘ
averageAnnualTemperature	around 0–2 °C ⓘ
averageDepth	about 21 m ⓘ
basinCountry	China ⓘ
climate	cold semi-arid climate ⓘ
country	China ⓘ
elevation	about 3200 m above sea level ⓘ
hasEcologicalIssue	grassland degradation in surrounding basin ⓘ water level fluctuation ⓘ
hasInflowRiver	Buha River NERFINISHED ⓘ Gonghe River ⓘ Haergai River NERFINISHED ⓘ Shaliu River NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasIsland	Bird Island ⓘ Erhai Lake ⓘ surface form: Erhai Haixin Shan ⓘ
importantFor	bird migration on the East Asian–Australasian Flyway ⓘ
isLargestInlandLakeIn	China ⓘ
isLargestLakeIn	China ⓘ
isLargestSaltwaterLakeIn	China ⓘ
knownFor	cycling tourism ⓘ high-altitude scenery ⓘ migratory birds ⓘ rich birdlife ⓘ
locatedIn	Qinghai ⓘ surface form: Qinghai Province
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory	Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture ⓘ Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture ⓘ surface form: Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
locatedNear	Xining ⓘ
locatedOn	northern Tibet ⓘ surface form: northeastern Tibetan Plateau
maximumDepth	about 25 m ⓘ
nameInChinese	青海湖 ⓘ
nameInMongolian	Kokonor ⓘ
nameInTibetan	མཚོ་སྔོན་པོ (Tso Ngönpo) ⓘ
nameMeaning	Blue Sea in Chinese ⓘ
outflow	endorheic (no outlet) ⓘ
partOf	Qinghai Lake self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Qinghai Lake Basin
protectedAreaName	Qinghai Lake National Nature Reserve ⓘ
protectedStatus	nature reserve ⓘ
region	northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau ⓘ
salinity	about 12–14 g/L ⓘ
usedFor	fishing ⓘ pastoralism in surrounding areas ⓘ tourism ⓘ
waterType	saline ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Qinghai → knownFor → Qinghai Lake ⓘ

Qinghai → contains → Qinghai Lake ⓘ

Qinghai Lake → partOf → Qinghai Lake self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Qinghai Lake Basin

Koko Nor → alsoKnownAs → Qinghai Lake ⓘ

Koko Nor → isPartOf → Qinghai Lake ⓘ

this entity surface form: Qinghai Lake Basin

QH → knownFor → Qinghai Lake ⓘ

subject surface form: Qinghai

QH → hasTouristAttraction → Qinghai Lake ⓘ