Buffalo Bill Dam
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Buffalo Bill Dam is a historic concrete arch-gravity dam on the Shoshone River in Wyoming, once one of the tallest in the world and now a key engineering landmark and visitor attraction.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Buffalo Bill Dam canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2591153 — 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: Buffalo Bill Dam Context triple: [Cody, Wyoming, hasAttraction, Buffalo Bill Dam]
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A.
Palisade Dam
Palisade Dam is an irrigation and water storage structure located on the Sevier River in central Utah, supporting local agriculture and recreation.
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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.
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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E.
Oxbow Dam
Oxbow Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Snake River in eastern Oregon, forming Oxbow Reservoir as part of the Hells Canyon 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: Buffalo Bill Dam Target entity description: Buffalo Bill Dam is a historic concrete arch-gravity dam on the Shoshone River in Wyoming, once one of the tallest in the world and now a key engineering landmark and visitor attraction.
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A.
Palisade Dam
Palisade Dam is an irrigation and water storage structure located on the Sevier River in central Utah, supporting local agriculture and recreation.
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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.
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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E.
Oxbow Dam
Oxbow Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Snake River in eastern Oregon, forming Oxbow Reservoir as part of the Hells Canyon Complex.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Buffalo Bill Dam Description of subject: Buffalo Bill Dam is a historic concrete arch-gravity dam on the Shoshone River in Wyoming, once one of the tallest in the world and now a key engineering landmark and visitor attraction.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cody, Wyoming