Lake Te Anau
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Lake Te Anau is the largest lake in New Zealand’s South Island, renowned for its dramatic Fiordland scenery and role as a gateway to attractions like Milford Sound and the Te Anau Glowworm Caves.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lake Te Anau canonical | 28 |
| Brods Bay, Lake Te Anau | 1 |
| Lake Te Anau basin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9776670 — 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 Te Anau Context triple: [Milford Road (State Highway 94), passesNear, Lake Te Anau]
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A.
Lake Ohau
Lake Ōhau is a glacial lake in New Zealand’s South Island, renowned for its alpine scenery, outdoor recreation, and proximity to the Southern Alps.
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B.
Lake Rotoiti
Lake Rotoiti is a scenic freshwater lake in New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty region, known for its geothermal features, trout fishing, and proximity to the tourist town of Rotorua.
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C.
Lake Wanaka
Lake Wanaka is a large glacial lake in New Zealand renowned for its dramatic alpine scenery and popularity for outdoor recreation such as hiking, boating, and skiing.
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D.
Lake Pupuke
Lake Pupuke is a freshwater crater lake on Auckland’s North Shore, formed in a volcanic explosion and now popular for recreation and wildlife.
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E.
Lake Karapiro
Lake Karapiro is a major artificial lake and premier rowing venue in New Zealand, renowned for hosting national and international rowing competitions.
- 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 Te Anau Target entity description: Lake Te Anau is the largest lake in New Zealand’s South Island, renowned for its dramatic Fiordland scenery and role as a gateway to attractions like Milford Sound and the Te Anau Glowworm Caves.
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A.
Lake Ohau
Lake Ōhau is a glacial lake in New Zealand’s South Island, renowned for its alpine scenery, outdoor recreation, and proximity to the Southern Alps.
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B.
Lake Rotoiti
Lake Rotoiti is a scenic freshwater lake in New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty region, known for its geothermal features, trout fishing, and proximity to the tourist town of Rotorua.
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C.
Lake Wanaka
Lake Wanaka is a large glacial lake in New Zealand renowned for its dramatic alpine scenery and popularity for outdoor recreation such as hiking, boating, and skiing.
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D.
Lake Pupuke
Lake Pupuke is a freshwater crater lake on Auckland’s North Shore, formed in a volcanic explosion and now popular for recreation and wildlife.
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E.
Lake Karapiro
Lake Karapiro is a major artificial lake and premier rowing venue in New Zealand, renowned for hosting national and international rowing competitions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | lake ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | town of Te Anau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| averageDepth | approximately 169 metres ⓘ |
| basinCountry | New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | New Zealand ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | about 210 metres ⓘ |
| formedBy | glacial processes ⓘ |
| hasArm |
Middle Fiord
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Fiord NERFINISHED ⓘ South Fiord NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIsland | several small islands ⓘ |
| hasProtectedStatus | within Fiordland National Park conservation area ⓘ |
| hasTownOnShore | Te Anau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inflow |
Clinton River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dooley Stream NERFINISHED ⓘ Eglinton River NERFINISHED ⓘ Glaisnock River NERFINISHED ⓘ Iris Burn NERFINISHED ⓘ Wapiti River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isLargestLakeIn | South Island of New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSecondLargestLakeIn | New Zealand by surface area ⓘ |
| knownFor |
access to Te Anau Glowworm Caves
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dramatic Fiordland scenery ⓘ gateway to Fiordland attractions ⓘ gateway to Milford Sound ⓘ mountain and forest surroundings ⓘ |
| length | approximately 65 kilometres ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Fiordland
NERFINISHED
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Fiordland National Park NERFINISHED ⓘ South Island ⓘ |
| maximumDepth | approximately 417 metres ⓘ |
| nearFeature |
Kepler Mountains
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Murchison Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearTrail |
Kepler Track
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Milford Track NERFINISHED ⓘ Routeburn Track (via road connections) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orientation | north–south ⓘ |
| outflow | Waiau River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Te Wahipounamu World Heritage Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Southland Region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| surfaceArea | approximately 344 square kilometres ⓘ |
| tourismActivity |
boating
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fishing ⓘ hiking access ⓘ kayaking ⓘ scenic cruises ⓘ |
| usedFor | hydroelectric power generation on Waiau River ⓘ |
| waterType | freshwater ⓘ |
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 Te Anau Description of subject: Lake Te Anau is the largest lake in New Zealand’s South Island, renowned for its dramatic Fiordland scenery and role as a gateway to attractions like Milford Sound and the Te Anau Glowworm Caves.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Brods Bay, Lake Te Anau
this entity surface form:
Lake Te Anau basin
subject surface form:
Waiau River (Southland)
subject surface form:
Waiau River (Southland)