Lake Qaraoun
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Lake Qaraoun is Lebanon’s largest artificial lake, created by damming the Litani River and serving as a key source of irrigation, hydropower, and water storage in the Beqaa Valley.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lake Qaraoun canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11229399 — 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 Qaraoun Context triple: [Litani River, reservoir, Lake Qaraoun]
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A.
Dayet Aoua Lake
Dayet Aoua Lake is a scenic freshwater lake in Morocco’s Middle Atlas region, popular for its natural beauty, birdlife, and outdoor recreation.
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B.
Ain El‑Sira Lake
Ain El‑Sira Lake is a natural lake in the Fustat area of Cairo, Egypt, known for its proximity to major archaeological and cultural sites.
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C.
Lake Evendim
Lake Evendim is a large, ancient lake in the northwest of Middle-earth, near the ruined city of Annúminas, in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium.
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D.
Lake Gaberoun
Lake Gaberoun is a scenic desert lake in Libya’s Ubari Sand Sea, known for its striking turquoise water, surrounding sand dunes, and remnants of an abandoned oasis settlement.
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E.
Lake Tuz
Lake Tuz is a large, shallow hypersaline lake in central Turkey known for its extensive salt flats and ecological importance as a habitat for migratory birds.
- 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 Qaraoun Target entity description: Lake Qaraoun is Lebanon’s largest artificial lake, created by damming the Litani River and serving as a key source of irrigation, hydropower, and water storage in the Beqaa Valley.
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A.
Dayet Aoua Lake
Dayet Aoua Lake is a scenic freshwater lake in Morocco’s Middle Atlas region, popular for its natural beauty, birdlife, and outdoor recreation.
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B.
Ain El‑Sira Lake
Ain El‑Sira Lake is a natural lake in the Fustat area of Cairo, Egypt, known for its proximity to major archaeological and cultural sites.
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C.
Lake Evendim
Lake Evendim is a large, ancient lake in the northwest of Middle-earth, near the ruined city of Annúminas, in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium.
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D.
Lake Gaberoun
Lake Gaberoun is a scenic desert lake in Libya’s Ubari Sand Sea, known for its striking turquoise water, surrounding sand dunes, and remnants of an abandoned oasis settlement.
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E.
Lake Tuz
Lake Tuz is a large, shallow hypersaline lake in central Turkey known for its extensive salt flats and ecological importance as a habitat for migratory birds.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artificial lake
ⓘ
reservoir ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Lebanon ⓘ |
| constructionStartOfDam | 1959 ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Lebanon ⓘ |
| createdBy | Qaraoun Dam ⓘ |
| damCompletionYear | 1961 ⓘ |
| damHeight | approximately 60 metres ⓘ |
| damLength | approximately 1,090 metres ⓘ |
| elevation |
approximately 2,600 feet above sea level
ⓘ
approximately 800 metres above sea level ⓘ |
| formedByDamming | Litani River ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Qaraoun Reservoir ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTransliteration |
Lake Qaroun
ⓘ
linked to:
Lake Qarun
|
| hasDamType | concrete-faced rockfill dam ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentalIssue |
algal blooms
ⓘ
eutrophication ⓘ fish kills ⓘ water pollution ⓘ |
| hasTourismActivity |
boat trips
ⓘ
restaurants along the lakeshore ⓘ |
| inflow | Litani River ⓘ |
| isLargestArtificialLakeIn | Lebanon ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Beqaa Governorate
ⓘ
Beqaa Valley ⓘ |
| locatedNear | village of Qaraoun ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Litani River ⓘ |
| locatedSouthOf | Chtaura ⓘ |
| locatedWestOf | Zahlé ⓘ |
| managingAuthority | Litani River Authority ⓘ |
| maximumCapacity | about 220 million cubic metres ⓘ |
| nearbyCity |
Joub Jannine
ⓘ
Saghbine ⓘ |
| outflow | Litani River ⓘ |
| partOf |
Litani River Basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Litani River
|
| primaryUse |
domestic and municipal water supply
ⓘ
hydroelectric power generation on the Litani River ⓘ irrigation of agricultural lands in southern Lebanon ⓘ |
| region | Middle East ⓘ |
| surfaceArea |
approximately 11.9 square kilometres
ⓘ
approximately 4.6 square miles ⓘ |
| usedFor |
fishing
ⓘ
flood control ⓘ recreation ⓘ |
| waterSourceFor |
hydropower
ⓘ
irrigation ⓘ water storage ⓘ |
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 Qaraoun Description of subject: Lake Qaraoun is Lebanon’s largest artificial lake, created by damming the Litani River and serving as a key source of irrigation, hydropower, and water storage in the Beqaa Valley.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.