Oxford Dam
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Oxford Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Catawba River in North Carolina that forms Lake Hickory and helps provide power and water management for the region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Oxford Dam canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13102455 — 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: Oxford Dam Context triple: [Lake Hickory, createdBy, Oxford Dam]
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Yates Dam
Yates Dam is a hydroelectric dam located on the Tallapoosa River in Alabama, used primarily for power generation and water management.
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Roxburgh Dam
Roxburgh Dam is a major hydroelectric power station in New Zealand’s South Island, known for harnessing the Clutha River / Mata-Au to generate electricity.
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C.
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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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.
Moondarra Dam
Moondarra Dam is a major water storage and irrigation structure in Queensland, Australia, built to supply water to the nearby city of Mount Isa and its mining operations.
- 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: Oxford Dam Target entity description: Oxford Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Catawba River in North Carolina that forms Lake Hickory and helps provide power and water management for the region.
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A.
Yates Dam
Yates Dam is a hydroelectric dam located on the Tallapoosa River in Alabama, used primarily for power generation and water management.
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B.
Roxburgh Dam
Roxburgh Dam is a major hydroelectric power station in New Zealand’s South Island, known for harnessing the Clutha River / Mata-Au to generate electricity.
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C.
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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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.
Moondarra Dam
Moondarra Dam is a major water storage and irrigation structure in Queensland, Australia, built to supply water to the nearby city of Mount Isa and its mining operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Oxford Dam Description of subject: Oxford Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Catawba River in North Carolina that forms Lake Hickory and helps provide power and water management for the region.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.