Comox Lake
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Comox Lake is a freshwater lake on central Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, known for recreation, drinking water supply, and its surrounding forested mountains.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Comox Lake canonical | 3 |
| Comox Lake watershed | 2 |
| Cowichan Lake | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8727693 — 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: Comox Lake Context triple: [Courtenay, locatedNear, Comox Lake]
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A.
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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B.
Revelstoke Lake
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Lillooet Lake
Lillooet Lake is a long, glacially fed lake in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, known for its scenic mountain surroundings and recreational opportunities such as boating and fishing.
- 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: Comox Lake Target entity description: Comox Lake is a freshwater lake on central Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, known for recreation, drinking water supply, and its surrounding forested mountains.
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A.
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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B.
Revelstoke Lake
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Lillooet Lake
Lillooet Lake is a long, glacially fed lake in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, known for its scenic mountain surroundings and recreational opportunities such as boating and fishing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
freshwater lake
ⓘ
lake ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Canada ⓘ |
| climateZone | coastal temperate climate ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
canoeing
ⓘ
kayaking ⓘ stand-up paddleboarding ⓘ trail use ⓘ |
| hasEcosystemType | temperate rainforest surroundings ⓘ |
| hasFishSpecies |
char
ⓘ
salmon ⓘ trout ⓘ |
| hasFunction | flood control support via reservoir operations ⓘ |
| hasHumanImpact | water level regulation by dam infrastructure ⓘ |
| hasRecreationSite |
beaches
ⓘ
boat launches ⓘ campgrounds ⓘ |
| hasShorelineFeature |
forested mountains
ⓘ
steep slopes ⓘ |
| hasView | surrounding forested hills and peaks ⓘ |
| inflow |
Cruickshank River
ⓘ
Upper Puntledge River ⓘ other small tributary streams ⓘ |
| knownFor |
drinking water supply
ⓘ
recreation ⓘ surrounding forested mountains ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
British Columbia
ⓘ
Comox Valley ⓘ Vancouver Island ⓘ central Vancouver Island ⓘ |
| locatedOn | eastern side of Vancouver Island mountain ranges ⓘ |
| managedBy | local water authorities in the Comox Valley ⓘ |
| near |
Courtenay, British Columbia
ⓘ
Cumberland, British Columbia ⓘ |
| outflow | Puntledge River ⓘ |
| partOf |
Comox Lake watershed
ⓘ
linked to:
Comox Lake
|
| region | Comox Valley Regional District ⓘ |
| usedFor |
boating
ⓘ
camping ⓘ fishing ⓘ hiking access ⓘ hydroelectric power generation ⓘ municipal water supply ⓘ swimming ⓘ |
| waterType | freshwater ⓘ |
| waterUse | primary drinking water source for the Comox Valley ⓘ |
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: Comox Lake Description of subject: Comox Lake is a freshwater lake on central Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, known for recreation, drinking water supply, and its surrounding forested mountains.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Comox Lake
subject linked to:
Cumberland
subject linked to:
Cumberland
linked to: Comox Lake
linked to: Comox Lake