Shuswap Lake
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Shuswap Lake is a large, multi-armed lake in south-central British Columbia, Canada, known for its recreational boating, houseboating, and significance to the Secwepemc (Shuswap) people.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shuswap Lake canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11304439 — 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: Shuswap Lake Context triple: [Secwepemc people, traditionalTerritoryIncludes, Shuswap Lake]
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A.
Okanagan Lake
Okanagan Lake is a large, deep freshwater lake in British Columbia, Canada, known for its scenic shoreline, recreational activities, and role as the centerpiece of the Okanagan region.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Kamloops Lake
Kamloops Lake is a large, scenic lake in south-central British Columbia, Canada, known for its semi-arid surroundings, recreational activities, and role in the Thompson River watershed.
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E.
Comox Lake
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.
- 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: Shuswap Lake Target entity description: Shuswap Lake is a large, multi-armed lake in south-central British Columbia, Canada, known for its recreational boating, houseboating, and significance to the Secwepemc (Shuswap) people.
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A.
Okanagan Lake
Okanagan Lake is a large, deep freshwater lake in British Columbia, Canada, known for its scenic shoreline, recreational activities, and role as the centerpiece of the Okanagan region.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Kamloops Lake
Kamloops Lake is a large, scenic lake in south-central British Columbia, Canada, known for its semi-arid surroundings, recreational activities, and role in the Thompson River watershed.
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E.
Comox Lake
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (70)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
glacial lake
ⓘ
lake ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Anglemont, British Columbia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Blind Bay, British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ Celista, British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ Chase, British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ Eagle Bay, British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ Salmon Arm, British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ Scotch Creek, British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ Seymour Arm, British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ Sicamous, British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ Sorrento, British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | Fraser River basin ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificanceFor |
Adams Lake Indian Band
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Little Shuswap Lake Band NERFINISHED ⓘ Neskonlith Indian Band NERFINISHED ⓘ Secwepemc Nation NERFINISHED ⓘ Splatsin First Nation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Anstey Arm
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cinnemousun Narrows NERFINISHED ⓘ Cinnemousun Narrows Provincial Park shoreline ⓘ Copper Island (Shuswap Lake) NERFINISHED ⓘ Herald Provincial Park shoreline NERFINISHED ⓘ Main Arm (Shuswap Lake) NERFINISHED ⓘ Mara Provincial Park shoreline NERFINISHED ⓘ Marble Point NERFINISHED ⓘ Salmon Arm (arm of Shuswap Lake) NERFINISHED ⓘ Seymour Arm (arm of Shuswap Lake) NERFINISHED ⓘ Shuswap Lake Main Arm North NERFINISHED ⓘ Shuswap Lake Main Arm South NERFINISHED ⓘ Shuswap Lake Provincial Park shoreline ⓘ White Lake Provincial Park vicinity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProtectedAreaOnShore |
Cinnemousun Narrows Provincial Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Herald Provincial Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Mara Provincial Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Shuswap Lake Provincial Park NERFINISHED ⓘ White Lake Provincial Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRecreationActivity |
boating
ⓘ
canoeing ⓘ houseboat cruising ⓘ kayaking ⓘ swimming ⓘ wakeboarding ⓘ water skiing ⓘ |
| inflow |
Adams River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Celista Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ Eagle River (British Columbia) NERFINISHED ⓘ Salmon River (British Columbia) NERFINISHED ⓘ Scotch Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ Seymour River (British Columbia) NERFINISHED ⓘ Shuswap River NERFINISHED ⓘ Tappen Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ White Creek (British Columbia) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
beach recreation
ⓘ
camping ⓘ houseboating ⓘ recreational boating ⓘ sport fishing ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
British Columbia
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Interior Plateau NERFINISHED ⓘ Shuswap Country NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | south-central British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTraditionalTerritoryOf | Secwepemc people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Shuswap (Secwepemc) people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| outflow |
Little River (British Columbia)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Little Shuswap Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Fraser River drainage basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Thompson-Okanagan region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| waterBodyType | multi-armed 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: Shuswap Lake Description of subject: Shuswap Lake is a large, multi-armed lake in south-central British Columbia, Canada, known for its recreational boating, houseboating, and significance to the Secwepemc (Shuswap) people.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.