Lake Union
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Lake Union is a freshwater lake in Seattle, Washington, known for its houseboats, seaplane traffic, and role as a central recreational and scenic hub within the city.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lake Union canonical | 29 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T306997 — 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 Union Context triple: [Puget Sound region, hasBodyOfWater, Lake Union]
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A.
Lake Washington
Lake Washington is a large freshwater lake in western Washington State, situated between Seattle and Bellevue and known for its urban shoreline, recreational activities, and floating bridges.
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B.
Elliott Bay
Elliott Bay is a large inlet of Puget Sound along the Seattle waterfront, known for its busy port, ferry traffic, and iconic views of the city skyline and surrounding mountains.
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C.
Puget Sound
Puget Sound is a complex system of interconnected marine waterways and basins in northwestern Washington State, known for its deep fjord-like inlets, rich marine ecosystems, and role as a major hub for shipping and coastal communities.
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D.
Commencement Bay
Commencement Bay is a large natural harbor on the southern end of Puget Sound in Washington State, serving as a key industrial and shipping center for the city of Tacoma.
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E.
Lake St. Clair
Lake St. Clair is a freshwater lake in the Great Lakes region between Michigan and Ontario, serving as a key link in the St. Lawrence Seaway between Lake Huron and Lake Erie.
- 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 Union Target entity description: Lake Union is a freshwater lake in Seattle, Washington, known for its houseboats, seaplane traffic, and role as a central recreational and scenic hub within the city.
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A.
Lake Washington
Lake Washington is a large freshwater lake in western Washington State, situated between Seattle and Bellevue and known for its urban shoreline, recreational activities, and floating bridges.
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B.
Elliott Bay
Elliott Bay is a large inlet of Puget Sound along the Seattle waterfront, known for its busy port, ferry traffic, and iconic views of the city skyline and surrounding mountains.
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C.
Puget Sound
Puget Sound is a complex system of interconnected marine waterways and basins in northwestern Washington State, known for its deep fjord-like inlets, rich marine ecosystems, and role as a major hub for shipping and coastal communities.
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D.
Commencement Bay
Commencement Bay is a large natural harbor on the southern end of Puget Sound in Washington State, serving as a key industrial and shipping center for the city of Tacoma.
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E.
Lake St. Clair
Lake St. Clair is a freshwater lake in the Great Lakes region between Michigan and Ontario, serving as a key link in the St. Lawrence Seaway between Lake Huron and Lake Erie.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 Union Description of subject: Lake Union is a freshwater lake in Seattle, Washington, known for its houseboats, seaplane traffic, and role as a central recreational and scenic hub within the city.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Queen Anne (Seattle neighborhood)
subject surface form:
South Lake Union
subject surface form:
South Lake Union