Meishan Reservoir
E114363
Meishan Reservoir is a major water storage and flood-control reservoir on China’s Huai River, supporting regional irrigation, water supply, and hydropower.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Meishan Reservoir canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T856460 — 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: Meishan Reservoir Context triple: [Huai River, hasMajorReservoir, Meishan Reservoir]
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A.
Gezhouba Dam
Gezhouba Dam is a large hydroelectric gravity dam in Yichang, Hubei, China, notable as the first major dam built on the Yangtze River and an important source of power generation and river navigation control.
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B.
Chaohu Lake
Chaohu Lake is a large freshwater lake in Anhui Province, eastern China, known for its ecological importance, fisheries, and role in regional tourism and water resources.
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C.
West Lake
West Lake is the largest freshwater lake in Hanoi, Vietnam, renowned for its scenic beauty, historic temples, and surrounding cafes and promenades.
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D.
Fuyang
Fuyang is a major prefecture-level city in northwestern Anhui Province, China, known as a regional transportation and agricultural hub.
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E.
Kunming Lake
Kunming Lake is a large, scenic man-made lake in Beijing that forms the central water feature of the Summer Palace imperial garden complex.
- 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: Meishan Reservoir Target entity description: Meishan Reservoir is a major water storage and flood-control reservoir on China’s Huai River, supporting regional irrigation, water supply, and hydropower.
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A.
Gezhouba Dam
Gezhouba Dam is a large hydroelectric gravity dam in Yichang, Hubei, China, notable as the first major dam built on the Yangtze River and an important source of power generation and river navigation control.
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B.
Chaohu Lake
Chaohu Lake is a large freshwater lake in Anhui Province, eastern China, known for its ecological importance, fisheries, and role in regional tourism and water resources.
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C.
West Lake
West Lake is the largest freshwater lake in Hanoi, Vietnam, renowned for its scenic beauty, historic temples, and surrounding cafes and promenades.
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D.
Fuyang
Fuyang is a major prefecture-level city in northwestern Anhui Province, China, known as a regional transportation and agricultural hub.
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E.
Kunming Lake
Kunming Lake is a large, scenic man-made lake in Beijing that forms the central water feature of the Summer Palace imperial garden complex.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flood-control reservoir
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reservoir ⓘ water storage reservoir ⓘ |
| basinCountry | China ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
ensure agricultural water security
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ensure urban water supply ⓘ generate electricity ⓘ reduce downstream flooding ⓘ regulate river flow ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Huai River region
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linked to:
Huai River Plain
eastern China ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Huai River ⓘ |
| partOf |
Huai River basin water conservancy system
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linked to:
Huai River water conservancy system
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| primaryFunction |
flood control
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water storage ⓘ |
| supports |
regional hydropower
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regional irrigation ⓘ regional water supply ⓘ |
| typeOfDamProject | multi-purpose reservoir project ⓘ |
| use |
hydropower generation
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irrigation ⓘ municipal water supply ⓘ |
| watercourse | Huai 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: Meishan Reservoir Description of subject: Meishan Reservoir is a major water storage and flood-control reservoir on China’s Huai River, supporting regional irrigation, water supply, and hydropower.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.