Ashton Dam
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Ashton Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River in eastern Idaho, primarily used for irrigation water storage and hydroelectric power generation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ashton Dam canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12093041 — 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: Ashton Dam Context triple: [Henry’s Fork, hasDam, Ashton Dam]
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A.
O’Sullivan Dam
O’Sullivan Dam is a major earth-fill dam in central Washington State that forms Potholes Reservoir and plays a key role in irrigation and water management for the Columbia Basin Project.
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B.
Brownlee Dam
Brownlee Dam is a major hydroelectric dam on the Snake River in the western United States, forming Brownlee Reservoir and playing a key role in regional power generation and water management.
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C.
Bluestone Dam
Bluestone Dam is a large concrete gravity dam on the New River in West Virginia, primarily used for flood control, recreation, and hydroelectric power generation.
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D.
Hume Dam
Hume Dam is a major concrete gravity dam in southeastern Australia that forms Lake Hume and plays a key role in water storage, irrigation, and flood control in the Murray–Darling Basin.
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E.
Hinze Dam
Hinze Dam is a major rock and earth-fill dam on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, that creates Advancetown Lake and supplies water, flood mitigation, and recreation for the region.
- 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: Ashton Dam Target entity description: Ashton Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River in eastern Idaho, primarily used for irrigation water storage and hydroelectric power generation.
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A.
O’Sullivan Dam
O’Sullivan Dam is a major earth-fill dam in central Washington State that forms Potholes Reservoir and plays a key role in irrigation and water management for the Columbia Basin Project.
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B.
Brownlee Dam
Brownlee Dam is a major hydroelectric dam on the Snake River in the western United States, forming Brownlee Reservoir and playing a key role in regional power generation and water management.
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C.
Bluestone Dam
Bluestone Dam is a large concrete gravity dam on the New River in West Virginia, primarily used for flood control, recreation, and hydroelectric power generation.
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D.
Hume Dam
Hume Dam is a major concrete gravity dam in southeastern Australia that forms Lake Hume and plays a key role in water storage, irrigation, and flood control in the Murray–Darling Basin.
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E.
Hinze Dam
Hinze Dam is a major rock and earth-fill dam on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, that creates Advancetown Lake and supplies water, flood mitigation, and recreation for the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
concrete gravity dam
ⓘ
hydroelectric dam ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasFunction |
power generation
ⓘ
water storage ⓘ |
| impounds | Henry’s Fork NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Idaho
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
eastern Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Mountain Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Ashton, Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnWatercourse |
Henry’s Fork
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Henry’s Fork of the Snake River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material | concrete ⓘ |
| partOf |
hydropower infrastructure of Idaho
ⓘ
irrigation infrastructure of Idaho ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
hydroelectric power generation
ⓘ
irrigation water storage ⓘ |
| region | eastern Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| riverBasin | Snake River basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structureType | gravity dam ⓘ |
| usedFor |
agricultural irrigation
ⓘ
electricity production ⓘ |
| watercourseType | river ⓘ |
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: Ashton Dam Description of subject: Ashton Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River in eastern Idaho, primarily used for irrigation water storage and hydroelectric power generation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.