McDermand Lake
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McDermand Lake is a high-elevation alpine lake situated within Evolution Basin in California’s Sierra Nevada.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McDermand Lake canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6364288 — 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: McDermand Lake Context triple: [Evolution Basin, contains, McDermand Lake]
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A.
Muldrew Lake
Muldrew Lake is a scenic freshwater lake in Ontario’s Muskoka region, popular for cottages, boating, and outdoor recreation near the town of Gravenhurst.
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B.
McCullom Lake
McCullom Lake is a small village in McHenry County, Illinois, known for its residential community surrounding the lake of the same name.
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C.
Steelman Lake
Steelman Lake is a small inland lake located on Sauvie Island in the Columbia River near Portland, Oregon, known for its natural wetland habitat and wildlife.
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D.
Singletary Lake
Singletary Lake is a natural Carolina bay lake in southeastern North Carolina, known for its unique elliptical shape and role in Singletary Lake State Park.
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E.
Herrington Lake
Herrington Lake is a large man-made reservoir in central Kentucky known for its deep waters, recreational boating, and fishing opportunities.
- 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: McDermand Lake Target entity description: McDermand Lake is a high-elevation alpine lake situated within Evolution Basin in California’s Sierra Nevada.
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A.
Muldrew Lake
Muldrew Lake is a scenic freshwater lake in Ontario’s Muskoka region, popular for cottages, boating, and outdoor recreation near the town of Gravenhurst.
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B.
McCullom Lake
McCullom Lake is a small village in McHenry County, Illinois, known for its residential community surrounding the lake of the same name.
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C.
Steelman Lake
Steelman Lake is a small inland lake located on Sauvie Island in the Columbia River near Portland, Oregon, known for its natural wetland habitat and wildlife.
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D.
Singletary Lake
Singletary Lake is a natural Carolina bay lake in southeastern North Carolina, known for its unique elliptical shape and role in Singletary Lake State Park.
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E.
Herrington Lake
Herrington Lake is a large man-made reservoir in central Kentucky known for its deep waters, recreational boating, and fishing opportunities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
alpine lake
ⓘ
glacial lake ⓘ |
| basin | Evolution Basin ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| elevationCategory | high-elevation ⓘ |
| environment | alpine ⓘ |
| formationType | glacial ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
cold water
ⓘ
high-altitude ⓘ remote ⓘ surrounded by granite peaks ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Evolution Basin ⓘ Sierra Nevada ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locatedInProtectedArea |
Sierra Nevada region of California public lands
ⓘ
linked to:
Sierra Nevada region of California
|
| mountainRange | Sierra Nevada ⓘ |
| partOf |
Sierra Nevada alpine lake system
ⓘ
linked to:
Lakes of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
|
| region |
Eastern Sierra Nevada
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Sierra
|
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| usedFor |
backpacking
ⓘ
hiking ⓘ wilderness recreation ⓘ |
| 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: McDermand Lake Description of subject: McDermand Lake is a high-elevation alpine lake situated within Evolution Basin in California’s Sierra Nevada.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.