Lake Okeechobee Waterway
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The Lake Okeechobee Waterway is a cross-Florida navigation route that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico via the St. Lucie Canal, Lake Okeechobee, and the Caloosahatchee River.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Okeechobee Waterway | 2 |
| Lake Okeechobee Waterway canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4347734 — 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 Okeechobee Waterway Context triple: [Inland Waterway System of the United States, hasPart, Lake Okeechobee Waterway]
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A.
Loxahatchee River
The Loxahatchee River is a scenic, federally designated Wild and Scenic River in southeastern Florida known for its winding, cypress-lined waterways and rich wildlife habitat.
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B.
Caloosahatchee River
The Caloosahatchee River is a major waterway in southwest Florida that connects Lake Okeechobee to the Gulf of Mexico and serves as an important ecological, recreational, and transportation corridor.
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C.
Caloosahatchee Estuary
The Caloosahatchee Estuary is a vital southwest Florida coastal ecosystem where the Caloosahatchee River meets the Gulf of Mexico, supporting diverse wildlife and fisheries but heavily impacted by altered freshwater flows and pollution.
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D.
St. Lucie Estuary
The St. Lucie Estuary is a biologically rich, but environmentally stressed, coastal estuarine system on Florida’s east coast that has been heavily impacted by freshwater discharges and nutrient pollution from upstream watersheds.
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E.
Ybor Channel
Ybor Channel is a waterway in Tampa, Florida, that forms part of the city’s port and waterfront district near historic Ybor City.
- 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 Okeechobee Waterway Target entity description: The Lake Okeechobee Waterway is a cross-Florida navigation route that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico via the St. Lucie Canal, Lake Okeechobee, and the Caloosahatchee River.
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A.
Loxahatchee River
The Loxahatchee River is a scenic, federally designated Wild and Scenic River in southeastern Florida known for its winding, cypress-lined waterways and rich wildlife habitat.
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B.
Caloosahatchee River
The Caloosahatchee River is a major waterway in southwest Florida that connects Lake Okeechobee to the Gulf of Mexico and serves as an important ecological, recreational, and transportation corridor.
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C.
Caloosahatchee Estuary
The Caloosahatchee Estuary is a vital southwest Florida coastal ecosystem where the Caloosahatchee River meets the Gulf of Mexico, supporting diverse wildlife and fisheries but heavily impacted by altered freshwater flows and pollution.
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D.
St. Lucie Estuary
The St. Lucie Estuary is a biologically rich, but environmentally stressed, coastal estuarine system on Florida’s east coast that has been heavily impacted by freshwater discharges and nutrient pollution from upstream watersheds.
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E.
Ybor Channel
Ybor Channel is a waterway in Tampa, Florida, that forms part of the city’s port and waterfront district near historic Ybor City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal system
ⓘ
navigation route ⓘ waterway ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Okeechobee Waterway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsRegion |
Florida east coast
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Florida west coast ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Atlantic Ocean
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gulf of Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasEconomicUse |
marine transportation
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| hasEndpoint |
Fort Myers, Florida
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stuart, Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
locks and dams
ⓘ
man-made canal segments ⓘ natural river segments ⓘ |
| hasLock |
Moore Haven Lock and Dam
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ortona Lock and Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ Port Mayaca Lock and Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Lucie Lock and Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ W.P. Franklin Lock and Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPurpose | shorten marine route between Atlantic and Gulf coasts ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Florida
ⓘ
Hendry County, Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ Lee County, Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin County, Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ Okeechobee County, Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ Palm Beach County, Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ South Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| navigationType | inland waterway ⓘ |
| partOf |
Intracoastal waterway system of Florida
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. inland waterway network ⓘ |
| traverses |
Caloosahatchee River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lake Okeechobee NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Lucie Canal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial navigation
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cross-Florida transit ⓘ recreational boating ⓘ |
| usesWaterBody |
Caloosahatchee River
NERFINISHED
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Lake Okeechobee NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Lucie Canal 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: Lake Okeechobee Waterway Description of subject: The Lake Okeechobee Waterway is a cross-Florida navigation route that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico via the St. Lucie Canal, Lake Okeechobee, and the Caloosahatchee River.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Okeechobee Waterway
this entity surface form:
Okeechobee Waterway