Lake Erie watershed
E436804
The Lake Erie watershed is the extensive drainage basin that collects water from rivers, streams, and surrounding lands across parts of the United States and Canada, ultimately feeding into Lake Erie, one of the North American Great Lakes.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lake Erie watershed canonical | 8 |
| Lake Erie basin | 6 |
| Lake Erie region | 1 |
| Lake Erie watershed (likely) | 1 |
| Lake Erie–Ohio River divide region | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4367065 — 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.
Target entity: Lake Erie watershed Context triple: [Huron River (Ohio), watershed, Lake Erie watershed]
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Lake Ontario drainage basin
The Lake Ontario drainage basin is the extensive watershed area that collects and channels water from surrounding lakes, rivers, and land into Lake Ontario, one of North America’s Great Lakes.
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B.
Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system
The Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system is a vast interconnected chain of freshwater lakes and the St. Lawrence River that forms one of the world’s largest inland waterways, linking the interior of North America to the Atlantic Ocean.
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C.
Cayuga Lake watershed
The Cayuga Lake watershed is the drainage basin in central New York State that collects water from numerous streams and creeks and ultimately feeds into Cayuga Lake, one of the Finger Lakes.
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D.
Genesee River watershed
The Genesee River watershed is the drainage basin encompassing all the land and waterways that ultimately feed into the Genesee River in western New York and northern Pennsylvania.
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E.
Great Lakes
The Great Lakes are a chain of five vast freshwater lakes in North America that form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth by total area and are a critical hub for transportation, industry, and ecology.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Lake Erie watershed Target entity description: The Lake Erie watershed is the extensive drainage basin that collects water from rivers, streams, and surrounding lands across parts of the United States and Canada, ultimately feeding into Lake Erie, one of the North American Great Lakes.
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A.
Lake Ontario drainage basin
The Lake Ontario drainage basin is the extensive watershed area that collects and channels water from surrounding lakes, rivers, and land into Lake Ontario, one of North America’s Great Lakes.
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B.
Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system
The Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system is a vast interconnected chain of freshwater lakes and the St. Lawrence River that forms one of the world’s largest inland waterways, linking the interior of North America to the Atlantic Ocean.
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C.
Cayuga Lake watershed
The Cayuga Lake watershed is the drainage basin in central New York State that collects water from numerous streams and creeks and ultimately feeds into Cayuga Lake, one of the Finger Lakes.
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D.
Genesee River watershed
The Genesee River watershed is the drainage basin encompassing all the land and waterways that ultimately feed into the Genesee River in western New York and northern Pennsylvania.
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E.
Great Lakes
The Great Lakes are a chain of five vast freshwater lakes in North America that form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth by total area and are a critical hub for transportation, industry, and ecology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drainage basin
ⓘ
hydrological region ⓘ watershed ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Lake Huron watershed
NERFINISHED
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Lake Ontario watershed NERFINISHED ⓘ Ohio River watershed NERFINISHED ⓘ Upper Mississippi River watershed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectsWaterFrom |
agricultural lands
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forested areas ⓘ rivers ⓘ streams ⓘ urban areas ⓘ wetlands ⓘ |
| crossesInternationalBoundary | Canada–United States border NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| drainsInto | Lake Erie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentalIssue |
habitat loss
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harmful algal blooms ⓘ nutrient pollution ⓘ sedimentation ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
agriculture
ⓘ
forestry ⓘ urban development ⓘ |
| hasMajorTributary |
Ashtabula River
NERFINISHED
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Black River (Ohio) NERFINISHED ⓘ Buffalo River NERFINISHED ⓘ Cattaraugus Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ Cuyahoga River NERFINISHED ⓘ Detroit River NERFINISHED ⓘ Grand River (Ohio) NERFINISHED ⓘ Grand River (Ontario) NERFINISHED ⓘ Huron River (Michigan) NERFINISHED ⓘ Huron River (Ohio) NERFINISHED ⓘ Maumee River NERFINISHED ⓘ Portage River (Ohio) NERFINISHED ⓘ Raisin River (Michigan) NERFINISHED ⓘ Sandusky River NERFINISHED ⓘ Scioto River headwaters region (via tributaries) ⓘ Thames River (Ontario) NERFINISHED ⓘ Vermilion River (Ohio) NERFINISHED ⓘ Welland River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOutflow | Lake Erie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryInflow |
Buffalo River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cuyahoga River NERFINISHED ⓘ Detroit River NERFINISHED ⓘ Grand River (Ontario) NERFINISHED ⓘ Maumee River NERFINISHED ⓘ Thames River (Ontario) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isManagedBy | binational agencies ⓘ |
| isManagedUnder | Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Great Lakes–St. Lawrence River system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Canada
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Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ New York ⓘ
surface form:
New York (state)
North America ⓘ Ohio ⓘ Ontario ⓘ Pennsylvania ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| partOf | Great Lakes Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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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.
Subject: Lake Erie watershed Description of subject: The Lake Erie watershed is the extensive drainage basin that collects water from rivers, streams, and surrounding lands across parts of the United States and Canada, ultimately feeding into Lake Erie, one of the North American Great Lakes.
Referenced by (17)
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