Lake Vermilion
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Lake Vermilion is a large, scenic freshwater lake in northeastern Minnesota known for its fishing, boating, and extensive shoreline dotted with cabins and resorts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lake Vermilion canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3486505 — 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 Vermilion Context triple: [St. Louis County, Minnesota, hasBodyOfWater, Lake Vermilion]
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A.
Lake Nokomis
Lake Nokomis is a popular urban lake in Minneapolis known for its beaches, recreational activities, and surrounding parkland.
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B.
Black Lake
Black Lake is a freshwater lake in Thurston County, Washington, known for recreation such as boating and fishing amid a largely residential and forested shoreline.
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C.
Lake Minnetonka
Lake Minnetonka is a large, popular recreational lake in the western suburbs of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area in Minnesota, known for boating, fishing, and lakeside communities.
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D.
Lake Winnebago
Lake Winnebago is a large freshwater lake in east-central Wisconsin, known for its recreational fishing, boating, and role as a key feature of the Fox River–Lake Winnebago watershed.
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E.
White Earth Lake
White Earth Lake is the English translation of the Dakota name "Bde Maka Ska," referring to a lake whose name means "White Earth Lake."
- 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 Vermilion Target entity description: Lake Vermilion is a large, scenic freshwater lake in northeastern Minnesota known for its fishing, boating, and extensive shoreline dotted with cabins and resorts.
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A.
Lake Nokomis
Lake Nokomis is a popular urban lake in Minneapolis known for its beaches, recreational activities, and surrounding parkland.
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B.
Black Lake
Black Lake is a freshwater lake in Thurston County, Washington, known for recreation such as boating and fishing amid a largely residential and forested shoreline.
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C.
Lake Minnetonka
Lake Minnetonka is a large, popular recreational lake in the western suburbs of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area in Minnesota, known for boating, fishing, and lakeside communities.
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D.
Lake Winnebago
Lake Winnebago is a large freshwater lake in east-central Wisconsin, known for its recreational fishing, boating, and role as a key feature of the Fox River–Lake Winnebago watershed.
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E.
White Earth Lake
White Earth Lake is the English translation of the Dakota name "Bde Maka Ska," referring to a lake whose name means "White Earth Lake."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
freshwater lake
ⓘ
lake ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| elevationAboveSeaLevel |
approximately 1,350 feet
ⓘ
approximately 411 meters ⓘ |
| fishSpecies |
black crappie
ⓘ
bluegill ⓘ largemouth bass ⓘ muskellunge ⓘ northern pike ⓘ smallmouth bass ⓘ walleye ⓘ yellow perch ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
forested surroundings
ⓘ
many islands ⓘ numerous bays and inlets ⓘ rocky shoreline ⓘ |
| hasOnShore |
cabins
ⓘ
campgrounds ⓘ resorts ⓘ |
| hasProtectedAreaOnShore | Lake Vermilion-Soudan Underground Mine State Park ⓘ |
| hasUse |
canoeing and kayaking
ⓘ
ice fishing ⓘ recreational boating ⓘ snowmobiling on and around the lake ⓘ sport fishing ⓘ |
| inflow | Vermilion River ⓘ |
| isPopularWith |
anglers
ⓘ
boaters ⓘ vacationers ⓘ |
| knownFor |
boating
ⓘ
extensive shoreline ⓘ fishing ⓘ recreational tourism ⓘ scenic beauty ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Arrowhead Region, Minnesota
ⓘ
linked to:
Arrowhead Region of Minnesota
Minnesota ⓘ Saint Louis County, Minnesota ⓘ
linked to:
St. Louis County, Minnesota
|
| locatedInRegion | northeastern Minnesota ⓘ |
| maximumDepth |
approximately 23 meters
ⓘ
approximately 76 feet ⓘ |
| nearbyCity |
Cook, Minnesota
ⓘ
Tower, Minnesota ⓘ |
| outflow | Vermilion River ⓘ |
| partOf |
Rainy River watershed
ⓘ
linked to:
Rainy River
|
| recreationManagedBy | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources ⓘ |
| shoreLength |
over 300 miles
ⓘ
over 480 kilometers ⓘ |
| surfaceArea |
approximately 158 square kilometers
ⓘ
approximately 39,000 acres ⓘ |
| 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 Vermilion Description of subject: Lake Vermilion is a large, scenic freshwater lake in northeastern Minnesota known for its fishing, boating, and extensive shoreline dotted with cabins and resorts.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.