Spirit Lake
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Spirit Lake is a natural lake in northwestern Iowa that forms part of the popular Iowa Great Lakes resort and recreation region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spirit Lake canonical | 12 |
| Spirit Lake (Iowa) | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13001201 — 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: Spirit Lake Context triple: [Lake Okoboji, hasPart, Spirit Lake]
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A.
Spirit Lake
Spirit Lake is a small, scenic natural lake in northern Idaho known for outdoor recreation such as fishing, boating, and lakeside camping.
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B.
Angle Lake
Angle Lake is a light rail station and surrounding neighborhood in SeaTac, Washington, serving as a southern terminus of Sound Transit’s Link light rail line near Seattle–Tacoma International Airport.
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C.
Spirit Lake, Iowa
Spirit Lake, Iowa is a small resort city in the Iowa Great Lakes region known for its recreational lakes, tourism, and outdoor activities.
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D.
Thunder Lake
Thunder Lake is a nearby lake associated with the Dryden area, known as a local natural water body used for recreation and outdoor activities.
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E.
Lake Vermilion
Lake Vermilion is a large, scenic freshwater lake in northeastern Minnesota known for its fishing, boating, and extensive shoreline dotted with cabins and resorts.
- 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: Spirit Lake Target entity description: Spirit Lake is a natural lake in northwestern Iowa that forms part of the popular Iowa Great Lakes resort and recreation region.
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A.
Spirit Lake
Spirit Lake is a small, scenic natural lake in northern Idaho known for outdoor recreation such as fishing, boating, and lakeside camping.
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B.
Angle Lake
Angle Lake is a light rail station and surrounding neighborhood in SeaTac, Washington, serving as a southern terminus of Sound Transit’s Link light rail line near Seattle–Tacoma International Airport.
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C.
Spirit Lake, Iowa
Spirit Lake, Iowa is a small resort city in the Iowa Great Lakes region known for its recreational lakes, tourism, and outdoor activities.
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D.
Thunder Lake
Thunder Lake is a nearby lake associated with the Dryden area, known as a local natural water body used for recreation and outdoor activities.
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E.
Lake Vermilion
Lake Vermilion is a large, scenic freshwater lake in northeastern Minnesota known for its fishing, boating, and extensive shoreline dotted with cabins and resorts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lake
ⓘ
natural lake ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasFeature |
lakeside resorts
ⓘ
marinas ⓘ public beaches ⓘ public boat ramps ⓘ |
| hasShorelineSettlement |
Okoboji, Iowa
ⓘ
Orleans, Iowa ⓘ Spirit Lake, Iowa ⓘ |
| knownFor |
ice fishing
ⓘ
summer tourism ⓘ vacation homes ⓘ water sports ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedInCounty | Dickinson County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInEcoregion | Prairie Pothole Region ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | northwestern Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedInWatershed |
Missouri River watershed
ⓘ
linked to:
Missouri River Basin
|
| partOf |
Iowa Great Lakes
ⓘ
Iowa Great Lakes region ⓘ |
| regionType |
recreation region
ⓘ
resort region ⓘ |
| use |
boating
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ recreation ⓘ resort activities ⓘ swimming ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| 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: Spirit Lake Description of subject: Spirit Lake is a natural lake in northwestern Iowa that forms part of the popular Iowa Great Lakes resort and recreation region.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Spirit Lake
linked to: Spirit Lake
linked to: Spirit Lake
linked to: Spirit Lake