Lake Norman
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Lake Norman is a large man-made reservoir in North Carolina known for boating, fishing, and upscale residential communities along its shoreline.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lake Norman canonical | 17 |
| Lake Norman State Park | 1 |
| Lake Norman of Catawba, North Carolina | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1220997 — 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 Norman Context triple: [Statesville, North Carolina, locatedNear, Lake Norman]
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A.
Falls Lake, North Carolina
Falls Lake in North Carolina is a large man-made reservoir near Raleigh that serves as a major source of drinking water, flood control, and recreation for the surrounding region.
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B.
Lake McKenzie
Lake McKenzie is a perched freshwater lake on K'gari (Fraser Island) in Queensland, Australia, renowned for its crystal-clear water and pure white silica sand.
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C.
Boiling Springs Lake
Boiling Springs Lake is a large, highly acidic, geothermal lake known for its bubbling hot springs and vivid colors in Lassen Volcanic National Park in Northern California.
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D.
Lake Ray Hubbard
Lake Ray Hubbard is a large reservoir in the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, popular for boating, fishing, and lakeside recreation.
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E.
Watts Bar Lake
Watts Bar Lake is a large man-made reservoir in eastern Tennessee known for boating, fishing, and recreation, created by the impoundment of the Tennessee River.
- 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 Norman Target entity description: Lake Norman is a large man-made reservoir in North Carolina known for boating, fishing, and upscale residential communities along its shoreline.
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A.
Falls Lake, North Carolina
Falls Lake in North Carolina is a large man-made reservoir near Raleigh that serves as a major source of drinking water, flood control, and recreation for the surrounding region.
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B.
Lake McKenzie
Lake McKenzie is a perched freshwater lake on K'gari (Fraser Island) in Queensland, Australia, renowned for its crystal-clear water and pure white silica sand.
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C.
Boiling Springs Lake
Boiling Springs Lake is a large, highly acidic, geothermal lake known for its bubbling hot springs and vivid colors in Lassen Volcanic National Park in Northern California.
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D.
Lake Ray Hubbard
Lake Ray Hubbard is a large reservoir in the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, popular for boating, fishing, and lakeside recreation.
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E.
Watts Bar Lake
Watts Bar Lake is a large man-made reservoir in eastern Tennessee known for boating, fishing, and recreation, created by the impoundment of the Tennessee River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
man-made lake
ⓘ
reservoir ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| averageDepth | about 33 feet ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| constructionBegan | 1959 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy |
Duke Power Company
ⓘ
surface form:
Duke Energy
|
| createdFor |
cooling water supply for power plants
ⓘ
flood control ⓘ hydroelectric power generation ⓘ recreation ⓘ |
| hasFishSpecies |
catfish
ⓘ
crappie ⓘ largemouth bass ⓘ spotted bass ⓘ striped bass ⓘ |
| hasNearbyAttraction |
Lake Norman
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Lake Norman State Park
Latta Nature Preserve ⓘ |
| hasNearbyTown |
Sherrills Ford, North Carolina
ⓘ
Troutman, North Carolina ⓘ |
| hasRecreationalActivity |
kayaking
ⓘ
paddleboarding ⓘ power boating ⓘ sailing ⓘ swimming ⓘ |
| impoundedBy | Cowans Ford Dam ⓘ |
| inflow | Catawba River ⓘ |
| knownFor |
boating
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ marinas and yacht clubs ⓘ upscale residential communities along its shoreline ⓘ water sports ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Catawba County
ⓘ
surface form:
Catawba County, North Carolina
Iredell County ⓘ
surface form:
Iredell County, North Carolina
Lincoln County, North Carolina ⓘ Mecklenburg County, North Carolina ⓘ North Carolina ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Piedmont region of North Carolina ⓘ |
| managedBy |
Duke Power Company
ⓘ
surface form:
Duke Energy
|
| maximumDepth |
over 100 feet
ⓘ
over 30 meters ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Norman Atwater Cocke ⓘ |
| nearCity |
Charlotte, North Carolina
ⓘ
Cornelius, North Carolina ⓘ Davidson, North Carolina ⓘ Huntersville ⓘ
surface form:
Huntersville, North Carolina
Mooresville, North Carolina ⓘ |
| nickname | Inland Sea ⓘ |
| outflow | Catawba River ⓘ |
| partOf |
Catawba River
ⓘ
surface form:
Catawba River reservoir chain
|
| shoreLength |
approximately 520 miles
ⓘ
approximately 837 kilometers ⓘ |
| surfaceArea |
approximately 131.5 square kilometers
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approximately 32,500 acres ⓘ |
| watercourse | Catawba River ⓘ |
| yearCompleted | 1964 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Norman Description of subject: Lake Norman is a large man-made reservoir in North Carolina known for boating, fishing, and upscale residential communities along its shoreline.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lake Norman State Park
subject surface form:
Southern Iredell County
this entity surface form:
Lake Norman of Catawba, North Carolina
subject surface form:
Southwestern North Carolina
subject surface form:
Denver, North Carolina