Megget Dam
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Megget Dam is a major earthfill embankment dam in the Scottish Borders that impounds the Megget Reservoir, an important source of drinking water for Edinburgh and the surrounding region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Megget Dam canonical | 1 |
| Megget Reservoir dam | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16654103 — 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: Megget Dam Context triple: [Megget Reservoir, hasStructure, Megget Dam]
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A.
Tieton Dam
Tieton Dam is a concrete multiple-arch dam in central Washington State that provides irrigation water storage, flood control, and hydroelectric power as part of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Yakima River basin developments.
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Kerr Dam
Kerr Dam is a large hydroelectric and flood-control structure on the Roanoke River that creates Kerr Lake (also known as Buggs Island Lake) along the Virginia–North Carolina border.
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C.
Almanor Dam
Almanor Dam is a large earthfill hydroelectric dam in Plumas County, California, that impounds the North Fork Feather River to form Lake Almanor.
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D.
Petenwell Dam
Petenwell Dam is a hydroelectric dam in central Wisconsin that creates Petenwell Lake, one of the state’s largest reservoirs, on the Wisconsin River.
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E.
Duncan Dam
Duncan Dam is a major hydroelectric and flood-control dam on the Duncan River in British Columbia, forming part of the Columbia River Treaty system.
- 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: Megget Dam Target entity description: Megget Dam is a major earthfill embankment dam in the Scottish Borders that impounds the Megget Reservoir, an important source of drinking water for Edinburgh and the surrounding region.
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A.
Tieton Dam
Tieton Dam is a concrete multiple-arch dam in central Washington State that provides irrigation water storage, flood control, and hydroelectric power as part of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Yakima River basin developments.
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B.
Kerr Dam
Kerr Dam is a large hydroelectric and flood-control structure on the Roanoke River that creates Kerr Lake (also known as Buggs Island Lake) along the Virginia–North Carolina border.
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C.
Almanor Dam
Almanor Dam is a large earthfill hydroelectric dam in Plumas County, California, that impounds the North Fork Feather River to form Lake Almanor.
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D.
Petenwell Dam
Petenwell Dam is a hydroelectric dam in central Wisconsin that creates Petenwell Lake, one of the state’s largest reservoirs, on the Wisconsin River.
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E.
Duncan Dam
Duncan Dam is a major hydroelectric and flood-control dam on the Duncan River in British Columbia, forming part of the Columbia River Treaty system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Megget Dam