Iowa Great Lakes
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The Iowa Great Lakes are a popular chain of natural glacial lakes in northwestern Iowa known for boating, fishing, and tourism, centered around Spirit Lake and the Okoboji lakes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Iowa Great Lakes canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5355199 — 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: Iowa Great Lakes Context triple: [Dickinson County, Iowa, contains, Iowa Great Lakes]
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A.
Lake of the Woods
Lake of the Woods is a large, island-dotted freshwater lake in northwestern Ontario that extends into Manitoba and Minnesota and is known for its fishing, boating, and scenic wilderness.
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B.
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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C.
Rice Lake
Rice Lake is a large, shallow lake in south-central Ontario, Canada, known for its recreational boating and fishing and its role as a key link in the Trent–Severn Waterway.
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D.
Gull Lake
Gull Lake is a scenic freshwater lake in Ontario, Canada, known for recreation, cottages, and its proximity to the town of Gravenhurst in the Muskoka region.
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E.
Apache Lake
Apache Lake is a reservoir in central Arizona popular for boating, fishing, and scenic desert canyon views along the Salt 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: Iowa Great Lakes Target entity description: The Iowa Great Lakes are a popular chain of natural glacial lakes in northwestern Iowa known for boating, fishing, and tourism, centered around Spirit Lake and the Okoboji lakes.
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A.
Lake of the Woods
Lake of the Woods is a large, island-dotted freshwater lake in northwestern Ontario that extends into Manitoba and Minnesota and is known for its fishing, boating, and scenic wilderness.
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B.
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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C.
Rice Lake
Rice Lake is a large, shallow lake in south-central Ontario, Canada, known for its recreational boating and fishing and its role as a key link in the Trent–Severn Waterway.
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D.
Gull Lake
Gull Lake is a scenic freshwater lake in Ontario, Canada, known for recreation, cottages, and its proximity to the town of Gravenhurst in the Muskoka region.
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E.
Apache Lake
Apache Lake is a reservoir in central Arizona popular for boating, fishing, and scenic desert canyon views along the Salt River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lake district
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tourist destination ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| containsWaterBody |
East Okoboji Lake
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spirit Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ West Okoboji Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| drainageBasin | Missouri River basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geologicalOrigin | glacial activity ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
ice fishing
ⓘ
sailing ⓘ snowmobiling ⓘ swimming ⓘ water skiing ⓘ |
| hasAttraction | Arnolds Park Amusement Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
marinas
ⓘ
natural sand beaches ⓘ state parks ⓘ |
| hasMajorSettlement |
Arnolds Park, Iowa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Okoboji, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ Spirit Lake, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Center Lake
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
East Okoboji Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ Little Spirit Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ Lower Gar Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ Minnewashta Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ Okoboji lakes NERFINISHED ⓘ Silver Lake (Dickinson County, Iowa) NERFINISHED ⓘ Spirit Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ Upper Gar Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ West Okoboji Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProtectedArea |
Elinor Bedell State Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gull Point State Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Pikes Point State Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
boating
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ resort communities ⓘ summer recreation ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Iowa
ⓘ
northwestern Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity | Dickinson County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Midwestern United States lake region ⓘ |
| recreationSeason |
four-season recreation area
ⓘ
summer peak season ⓘ |
| tourismRegion | Okoboji area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| waterbodyType | glacial lake ⓘ |
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: Iowa Great Lakes Description of subject: The Iowa Great Lakes are a popular chain of natural glacial lakes in northwestern Iowa known for boating, fishing, and tourism, centered around Spirit Lake and the Okoboji lakes.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.