Revelstoke Lake
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Revelstoke Lake is a long, narrow reservoir on the Columbia River in British Columbia, Canada, created by the Revelstoke Dam and bordered by steep mountain terrain.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Revelstoke Lake canonical | 3 |
| Lake Revelstoke | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5153907 — 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: Revelstoke Lake Context triple: [Rocky Mountain Trench, contains, Revelstoke Lake]
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A.
Maligne Lake
Maligne Lake is a renowned glacial lake in the Canadian Rockies, famous for its striking turquoise waters, surrounding mountain scenery, and the iconic Spirit Island.
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B.
Kootenay Lake
Kootenay Lake is a large, elongated glacial lake in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, known for its scenic mountain surroundings and recreational opportunities.
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C.
Skaha Lake
Skaha Lake is a scenic freshwater lake in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley, popular for swimming, boating, and lakeside recreation.
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D.
Bowman Lake
Bowman Lake is a scenic, remote glacial lake in the northwestern part of Montana’s Glacier National Park, known for its clear waters, mountain views, and backcountry recreation.
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E.
Big Bear Lake
Big Bear Lake is a popular alpine reservoir and year-round recreation destination in Southern California’s San Bernardino Mountains, known for boating, fishing, and nearby ski 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: Revelstoke Lake Target entity description: Revelstoke Lake is a long, narrow reservoir on the Columbia River in British Columbia, Canada, created by the Revelstoke Dam and bordered by steep mountain terrain.
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A.
Maligne Lake
Maligne Lake is a renowned glacial lake in the Canadian Rockies, famous for its striking turquoise waters, surrounding mountain scenery, and the iconic Spirit Island.
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B.
Kootenay Lake
Kootenay Lake is a large, elongated glacial lake in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, known for its scenic mountain surroundings and recreational opportunities.
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C.
Skaha Lake
Skaha Lake is a scenic freshwater lake in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley, popular for swimming, boating, and lakeside recreation.
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D.
Bowman Lake
Bowman Lake is a scenic, remote glacial lake in the northwestern part of Montana’s Glacier National Park, known for its clear waters, mountain views, and backcountry recreation.
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E.
Big Bear Lake
Big Bear Lake is a popular alpine reservoir and year-round recreation destination in Southern California’s San Bernardino Mountains, known for boating, fishing, and nearby ski resorts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | reservoir ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Canada ⓘ |
| borderedBy | steep mountain terrain ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| createdBy | Revelstoke Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| downstreamFrom | Mica Dam reservoir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formedBy | impoundment of the Columbia River ⓘ |
| hasDam | Revelstoke Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguageRegion | English-speaking Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasType | mountain reservoir ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
British Columbia
ⓘ
Canadian Cordillera NERFINISHED ⓘ Columbia Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ Columbia-Shuswap Regional District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Revelstoke, British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Columbia River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | BC Hydro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Columbia River Treaty storage system
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Columbia River system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose |
flow regulation
ⓘ
hydroelectric power generation ⓘ water storage ⓘ |
| region | Interior of British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shape | long and narrow ⓘ |
| upstreamFrom | Revelstoke, British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
boating
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ recreation ⓘ |
| watercourse | Columbia River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Revelstoke Lake Description of subject: Revelstoke Lake is a long, narrow reservoir on the Columbia River in British Columbia, Canada, created by the Revelstoke Dam and bordered by steep mountain terrain.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lake Revelstoke