Skaneateles Lake
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Skaneateles Lake is one of New York State’s cleanest and most scenic Finger Lakes, known for its clear drinking water and picturesque shoreline communities.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Skaneateles Lake canonical | 15 |
| Skaneateles Lake watershed | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T553974 — 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: Skaneateles Lake Context triple: [Finger Lakes, contains, Skaneateles Lake]
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A.
Seneca Lake
Seneca Lake is one of New York State’s largest and deepest Finger Lakes, renowned for its scenic beauty and prominent wine-producing region.
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B.
Cayuga Lake
Cayuga Lake is the longest of New York State’s Finger Lakes, known for its scenic beauty, wineries, and role as a regional recreational and ecological hub.
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C.
Canandaigua Lake
Canandaigua Lake is one of New York State’s scenic Finger Lakes, known for its clear waters, wineries, and lakeside recreation.
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D.
Tioga Lake
Tioga Lake is a high-elevation alpine lake in the Sierra Nevada of California, just east of Yosemite National Park, known for its scenic mountain views and outdoor recreation.
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E.
Keuka Lake
Keuka Lake is one of New York State’s Finger Lakes, known for its distinctive Y-shape, scenic beauty, and prominent wine-producing region along its shores.
- 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: Skaneateles Lake Target entity description: Skaneateles Lake is one of New York State’s cleanest and most scenic Finger Lakes, known for its clear drinking water and picturesque shoreline communities.
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A.
Seneca Lake
Seneca Lake is one of New York State’s largest and deepest Finger Lakes, renowned for its scenic beauty and prominent wine-producing region.
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B.
Cayuga Lake
Cayuga Lake is the longest of New York State’s Finger Lakes, known for its scenic beauty, wineries, and role as a regional recreational and ecological hub.
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C.
Canandaigua Lake
Canandaigua Lake is one of New York State’s scenic Finger Lakes, known for its clear waters, wineries, and lakeside recreation.
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D.
Tioga Lake
Tioga Lake is a high-elevation alpine lake in the Sierra Nevada of California, just east of Yosemite National Park, known for its scenic mountain views and outdoor recreation.
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E.
Keuka Lake
Keuka Lake is one of New York State’s Finger Lakes, known for its distinctive Y-shape, scenic beauty, and prominent wine-producing region along its shores.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Finger Lake
ⓘ
lake ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| drinkingWaterSupplyFor |
Syracuse
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Syracuse
|
| elevation | approximately 863 feet above sea level ⓘ |
| fishSpecies |
lake trout
ⓘ
landlocked salmon ⓘ rainbow trout ⓘ smallmouth bass ⓘ |
| formedBy | glacial activity ⓘ |
| hasInflow |
Bear Swamp Creek
ⓘ
Grout Brook ⓘ Shotwell Brook ⓘ numerous smaller tributaries ⓘ |
| hasOutflow | Skaneateles Creek ⓘ |
| hasRegulation |
restrictions on boat discharges
ⓘ
restrictions on shoreline development ⓘ |
| knownFor |
clear water
ⓘ
drinking water supply ⓘ high water quality ⓘ scenic beauty ⓘ |
| length | approximately 16 miles ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cayuga County, New York
ⓘ
Cortland County, New York ⓘ Finger Lakes ⓘ
surface form:
Finger Lakes region
New York ⓘ
surface form:
New York State
Onondaga County ⓘ
surface form:
Onondaga County, New York
|
| maximumDepth | approximately 315 feet ⓘ |
| nameEtymology | derived from an Iroquoian word often interpreted as "long lake" ⓘ |
| near |
Syracuse
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Syracuse, New York
|
| northernTerminus |
Skaneateles, New York
ⓘ
surface form:
village of Skaneateles
|
| orientation | north–south ⓘ |
| partOf |
Great Lakes region
ⓘ
surface form:
Great Lakes Basin
Oswego River ⓘ
surface form:
Oswego River watershed
|
| recreation |
boating
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ sailing ⓘ swimming ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| shorelineCommunity |
Borodino, New York
ⓘ
Glen Haven, New York ⓘ Mandana, New York ⓘ Skaneateles, New York ⓘ |
| surfaceArea | approximately 13.6 square miles ⓘ |
| usedFor | municipal drinking water ⓘ |
| waterQualityClassification | one of the cleanest lakes in New York State ⓘ |
| 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: Skaneateles Lake Description of subject: Skaneateles Lake is one of New York State’s cleanest and most scenic Finger Lakes, known for its clear drinking water and picturesque shoreline communities.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Skaneateles Lake watershed