Lake Houston
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Lake Houston is a large reservoir in northeast Houston, Texas, primarily serving as a major source of drinking water and recreation for the Houston metropolitan area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lake Houston canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11624141 — 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 Houston Context triple: [San Jacinto River, crosses, Lake Houston]
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A.
Lake Conroe
Lake Conroe is a large man-made reservoir in southeast Texas known for boating, fishing, and serving as a major water supply and recreation area for the Houston region.
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B.
Lake Livingston
Lake Livingston is a large man-made reservoir in East Texas known for recreation, fishing, and serving as a major water supply for the Houston area.
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C.
Lake Hunt
Lake Hunt is a small recreational lake located in or near Reidsville, North Carolina.
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D.
Lake Travis
Lake Travis is a large, popular reservoir on the Colorado River in central Texas known for boating, fishing, and waterfront recreation near Austin.
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E.
Lake Austin
Lake Austin is a dammed section of the Colorado River in central Texas, popular for boating, fishing, and upscale waterfront homes near Austin.
- 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 Houston Target entity description: Lake Houston is a large reservoir in northeast Houston, Texas, primarily serving as a major source of drinking water and recreation for the Houston metropolitan area.
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A.
Lake Conroe
Lake Conroe is a large man-made reservoir in southeast Texas known for boating, fishing, and serving as a major water supply and recreation area for the Houston region.
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B.
Lake Livingston
Lake Livingston is a large man-made reservoir in East Texas known for recreation, fishing, and serving as a major water supply for the Houston area.
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C.
Lake Hunt
Lake Hunt is a small recreational lake located in or near Reidsville, North Carolina.
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D.
Lake Travis
Lake Travis is a large, popular reservoir on the Colorado River in central Texas known for boating, fishing, and waterfront recreation near Austin.
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E.
Lake Austin
Lake Austin is a dammed section of the Colorado River in central Texas, popular for boating, fishing, and upscale waterfront homes near Austin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artificial lake
ⓘ
reservoir ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Lake Houston Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentalConcern |
flooding risk
ⓘ
sedimentation ⓘ |
| hasRecreationArea | Lake Houston Wilderness Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasShorelineSettlement |
Atascocita, Texas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Huffman, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Kingwood, Houston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfFish |
catfish
ⓘ
crappie ⓘ largemouth bass ⓘ sunfish ⓘ |
| hasUseRestriction | public water supply protection ⓘ |
| impoundedBy | Lake Houston Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isDownstreamOf | Lake Conroe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isMajorSourceOf | drinking water for Houston metropolitan area ⓘ |
| isUpstreamOf | Houston Ship Channel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Harris County, Texas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Houston ⓘ
surface form:
Houston, Texas
Montgomery County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas ⓘ northeast Houston ⓘ |
| locatedInHydrologicUnit | San Jacinto River basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Lake Houston Wilderness Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearCity | Houston, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | City of Houston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | City of Houston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Houston water supply system ⓘ |
| primaryInflows |
East Fork San Jacinto River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
San Jacinto River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryOutflows | San Jacinto River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose |
drinking water supply
ⓘ
flood control ⓘ municipal water supply ⓘ recreation ⓘ |
| region | Southeast Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serves |
City of Houston
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Houston metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| usedFor |
boating
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ recreational activities ⓘ water sports ⓘ |
| watercourse | San Jacinto River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Houston Description of subject: Lake Houston is a large reservoir in northeast Houston, Texas, primarily serving as a major source of drinking water and recreation for the Houston metropolitan area.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.