Blue Mesa Dam
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Blue Mesa Dam is a large earthfill dam on the Gunnison River in Colorado, forming Blue Mesa Reservoir as part of the Colorado River Storage Project.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Blue Mesa Dam canonical | 9 |
| Blue Mesa Powerplant | 1 |
| earthfill dam (Blue Mesa Dam) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1258919 — 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: Blue Mesa Dam Context triple: [Bureau of Reclamation, hasDams, Blue Mesa Dam]
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Red Rock Dam
Red Rock Dam is a large flood-control and hydroelectric dam on the Des Moines River in central Iowa, forming Lake Red Rock as the state’s largest reservoir.
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B.
O'Shaughnessy Dam
O'Shaughnessy Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in Yosemite National Park that creates the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, supplying water and hydroelectric power to the San Francisco Bay Area.
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C.
McNary Dam
McNary Dam is a large hydroelectric dam and navigation lock complex on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
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D.
Wheeler Dam
Wheeler Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in northern Alabama that forms Wheeler Lake and helps provide power, navigation, and flood control in the region.
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E.
Bonneville Dam
Bonneville Dam is a major hydroelectric and navigation dam on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest, known for power generation, fish ladders, and its role in regional river management.
- 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: Blue Mesa Dam Target entity description: Blue Mesa Dam is a large earthfill dam on the Gunnison River in Colorado, forming Blue Mesa Reservoir as part of the Colorado River Storage Project.
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A.
Red Rock Dam
Red Rock Dam is a large flood-control and hydroelectric dam on the Des Moines River in central Iowa, forming Lake Red Rock as the state’s largest reservoir.
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B.
O'Shaughnessy Dam
O'Shaughnessy Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in Yosemite National Park that creates the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, supplying water and hydroelectric power to the San Francisco Bay Area.
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C.
McNary Dam
McNary Dam is a large hydroelectric dam and navigation lock complex on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
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D.
Wheeler Dam
Wheeler Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in northern Alabama that forms Wheeler Lake and helps provide power, navigation, and flood control in the region.
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E.
Bonneville Dam
Bonneville Dam is a major hydroelectric and navigation dam on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest, known for power generation, fish ladders, and its role in regional river management.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
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: Blue Mesa Dam Description of subject: Blue Mesa Dam is a large earthfill dam on the Gunnison River in Colorado, forming Blue Mesa Reservoir as part of the Colorado River Storage Project.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Blue Mesa Dam
linked to: Blue Mesa Dam