Donner Lake
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Donner Lake is a scenic alpine lake in the Sierra Nevada of California, known for its clear waters, recreational activities, and historical association with the Donner Party.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Donner Lake canonical | 13 |
| Donner Lake named in their memory | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T71093 — 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: Donner Lake Context triple: [Donner Pass, locatedNear, Donner Lake]
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A.
Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe is a large, deep, and famously clear freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains, straddling the border of California and Nevada and serving as a major destination for outdoor recreation and tourism.
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B.
Pyramid Lake
Pyramid Lake is a large desert lake in northwestern Nevada known for its striking pyramid-shaped tufa formations and cultural significance to the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe.
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C.
South Lake Tahoe
South Lake Tahoe is a resort city in California known for its access to Lake Tahoe’s beaches, ski resorts, and outdoor recreation.
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D.
Lake Tahoe Basin
The Lake Tahoe Basin is a high-altitude watershed in the Sierra Nevada centered on Lake Tahoe, renowned for its clear alpine lake, surrounding forests, and year-round outdoor recreation.
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E.
Great Salt Lake
The Great Salt Lake is a large, shallow, hypersaline lake in northern Utah, known as the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere and a critical habitat for millions of migratory birds.
- 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: Donner Lake Target entity description: Donner Lake is a scenic alpine lake in the Sierra Nevada of California, known for its clear waters, recreational activities, and historical association with the Donner Party.
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A.
Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe is a large, deep, and famously clear freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains, straddling the border of California and Nevada and serving as a major destination for outdoor recreation and tourism.
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B.
Pyramid Lake
Pyramid Lake is a large desert lake in northwestern Nevada known for its striking pyramid-shaped tufa formations and cultural significance to the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe.
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C.
South Lake Tahoe
South Lake Tahoe is a resort city in California known for its access to Lake Tahoe’s beaches, ski resorts, and outdoor recreation.
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D.
Lake Tahoe Basin
The Lake Tahoe Basin is a high-altitude watershed in the Sierra Nevada centered on Lake Tahoe, renowned for its clear alpine lake, surrounding forests, and year-round outdoor recreation.
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E.
Great Salt Lake
The Great Salt Lake is a large, shallow, hypersaline lake in northern Utah, known as the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere and a critical habitat for millions of migratory birds.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Donner Lake Description of subject: Donner Lake is a scenic alpine lake in the Sierra Nevada of California, known for its clear waters, recreational activities, and historical association with the Donner Party.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Donner Lake named in their memory