Assertion: lake's area | /r/HasProperty | inhabited for long time
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: While the area had been inhabited for a very long time before European explorers arrived, Étienne Brûlé (circa 1592-1632), an advance man for the French explorer Samuel de Champlain (circa 1567-1635), is generally credited as the first European to discover the Great Lakes.