Lake Titicaca
E9032
Lake Titicaca is a large, high-altitude freshwater lake in the Andes on the border of Peru and Bolivia, renowned as one of the world’s highest navigable lakes and a cradle of pre-Columbian civilizations.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lake Titicaca canonical | 95 |
| Lake Titicaca basin | 3 |
| Lake Titicaca (Peruvian side) | 2 |
| Lake Titicaca (shoreline) | 1 |
| Lake Titicaca Basin | 1 |
| Titicaca–Desaguadero–Poopó–Salar de Coipasa system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T90256 — 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 Titicaca Context triple: [South America, hasMajorLake, Lake Titicaca]
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A.
Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe is a large, deep, and famously clear freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains, straddling the border of California and Nevada and serving as a major destination for outdoor recreation and tourism.
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B.
Lake Tear of the Clouds
Lake Tear of the Clouds is a small mountain tarn on the slopes of New York’s Mount Marcy, historically recognized as the highest-elevation source of the Hudson River.
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C.
Lake Geneva
Lake Geneva is a large crescent-shaped lake on the north side of the Alps, shared by Switzerland and France and renowned for its scenic beauty and surrounding cities like Geneva and Lausanne.
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D.
Limarí Valley
Limarí Valley is a semi-arid wine-producing valley in northern Chile known for its cool coastal influence, limestone-rich soils, and high-quality Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.
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E.
Limarí River
The Limarí River is a significant watercourse in north-central Chile that supports agriculture and viticulture as it flows through the semi-arid Coquimbo Region to the Pacific Ocean.
- 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 Titicaca Target entity description: Lake Titicaca is a large, high-altitude freshwater lake in the Andes on the border of Peru and Bolivia, renowned as one of the world’s highest navigable lakes and a cradle of pre-Columbian civilizations.
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A.
Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe is a large, deep, and famously clear freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains, straddling the border of California and Nevada and serving as a major destination for outdoor recreation and tourism.
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B.
Lake Tear of the Clouds
Lake Tear of the Clouds is a small mountain tarn on the slopes of New York’s Mount Marcy, historically recognized as the highest-elevation source of the Hudson River.
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C.
Lake Geneva
Lake Geneva is a large crescent-shaped lake on the north side of the Alps, shared by Switzerland and France and renowned for its scenic beauty and surrounding cities like Geneva and Lausanne.
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D.
Limarí Valley
Limarí Valley is a semi-arid wine-producing valley in northern Chile known for its cool coastal influence, limestone-rich soils, and high-quality Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.
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E.
Limarí River
The Limarí River is a significant watercourse in north-central Chile that supports agriculture and viticulture as it flows through the semi-arid Coquimbo Region to the Pacific Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
border lake
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freshwater lake ⓘ lake ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| area |
about 3,200 square miles
ⓘ
about 8,300 square kilometers ⓘ |
| averageDepth |
about 107 meters
ⓘ
about 351 feet ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
Bolivia
ⓘ
Peru ⓘ |
| borderRegion |
La Paz Department
ⓘ
Puno Region ⓘ |
| climate | cold high-altitude climate ⓘ |
| country |
Bolivia
ⓘ
Peru ⓘ |
| culturalRegion |
Aymara
ⓘ
Quechua ⓘ |
| elevation |
about 12,507 feet above sea level
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about 3,812 meters above sea level ⓘ |
| hasIsland |
Amantaní Island
ⓘ
Isla de la Luna ⓘ Isla del Sol ⓘ Taquile Island ⓘ Uros floating islands ⓘ |
| hasType | tectonic lake ⓘ |
| hasUNESCOStatus | proposed World Heritage Site ⓘ |
| inflow |
Coata River
ⓘ
Huancané River ⓘ Ilave River ⓘ Ilave River ⓘ
surface form:
Ramis River
|
| knownFor |
being one of the highest navigable lakes in the world
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cultural significance to Andean peoples ⓘ floating reed islands ⓘ pre-Columbian civilizations ⓘ |
| length | about 190 kilometers ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Andes
ⓘ
South America ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Copacabana
ⓘ
Puno ⓘ |
| locatedOnBorderOf |
Bolivia
ⓘ
Peru ⓘ |
| maximumDepth |
about 281 meters
ⓘ
about 922 feet ⓘ |
| mythologicalSignificance |
associated with the origin of the Inca sun god Inti
ⓘ
considered a sacred lake in Inca mythology ⓘ |
| outflow | Desaguadero River ⓘ |
| partOf |
Altiplano plateau
ⓘ
surface form:
Altiplano
Lake Titicaca self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Titicaca–Desaguadero–Poopó–Salar de Coipasa system
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| salinity | freshwater ⓘ |
| tourismActivity |
boat tours
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community-based tourism on islands ⓘ |
| usedFor |
fishing
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irrigation ⓘ transportation ⓘ |
| volume | about 893 cubic kilometers ⓘ |
| width | about 80 kilometers ⓘ |
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 Titicaca Description of subject: Lake Titicaca is a large, high-altitude freshwater lake in the Andes on the border of Peru and Bolivia, renowned as one of the world’s highest navigable lakes and a cradle of pre-Columbian civilizations.
Referenced by (103)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Titicaca–Desaguadero–Poopó–Salar de Coipasa system
this entity surface form:
Lake Titicaca Basin
this entity surface form:
Lake Titicaca basin
this entity surface form:
Lake Titicaca basin
subject surface form:
Southeastern Peru
this entity surface form:
Lake Titicaca (Peruvian side)
subject surface form:
Killa Island