San Luis Dam
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San Luis Dam is a major earthfill embankment dam in California that impounds the San Luis Reservoir, one of the largest off-stream storage reservoirs in the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| San Luis Dam canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3109154 — 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: San Luis Dam Context triple: [San Luis Reservoir, createdBy, San Luis Dam]
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A.
La Mesa Dam
La Mesa Dam is a major water reservoir in Quezon City, Philippines, that supplies a significant portion of Metro Manila’s drinking water.
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B.
Roosevelt Dam
Roosevelt Dam is a historic masonry and concrete arch dam on Arizona’s Salt River, built in the early 20th century to provide water storage, flood control, and hydroelectric power for the region.
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C.
Pine Flat Dam
Pine Flat Dam is a large concrete gravity dam in California that creates Pine Flat Lake and provides flood control, irrigation water storage, and hydroelectric power on the Kings River.
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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.
San Luis Reservoir
San Luis Reservoir is a large artificial lake in California that serves as a major water storage facility for irrigation and municipal use in the state’s Central Valley.
- 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: San Luis Dam Target entity description: San Luis Dam is a major earthfill embankment dam in California that impounds the San Luis Reservoir, one of the largest off-stream storage reservoirs in the United States.
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A.
La Mesa Dam
La Mesa Dam is a major water reservoir in Quezon City, Philippines, that supplies a significant portion of Metro Manila’s drinking water.
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B.
Roosevelt Dam
Roosevelt Dam is a historic masonry and concrete arch dam on Arizona’s Salt River, built in the early 20th century to provide water storage, flood control, and hydroelectric power for the region.
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C.
Pine Flat Dam
Pine Flat Dam is a large concrete gravity dam in California that creates Pine Flat Lake and provides flood control, irrigation water storage, and hydroelectric power on the Kings River.
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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.
San Luis Reservoir
San Luis Reservoir is a large artificial lake in California that serves as a major water storage facility for irrigation and municipal use in the state’s Central Valley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
earthfill embankment dam
ⓘ
off-stream storage dam ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | B.F. Sisk Dam ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| connectedTo |
California Aqueduct
ⓘ
Delta–Mendota Canal ⓘ
linked to:
Delta-Mendota Canal
|
| constructionBegan | 1963 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| crestElevation | about 544 feet above sea level ⓘ |
| damType |
earthfill
ⓘ
embankment ⓘ |
| engineering | earth and rockfill construction ⓘ |
| hasSpillway | yes ⓘ |
| hazardPotential | high ⓘ |
| height | about 382 feet ⓘ |
| impounds | San Luis Reservoir ⓘ |
| isOneOf | largest off-stream reservoirs in the United States ⓘ |
| length | about 18,600 feet ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Merced County, California ⓘ
linked to:
Merced County
near Los Banos, California ⓘ |
| locatedInProtectedArea |
San Luis Reservoir State Recreation Area
ⓘ
linked to:
San Luis Reservoir
|
| namedFor | Bernardo Flores Sisk ⓘ |
| nearHighway | California State Route 152 ⓘ |
| opened | 1967 ⓘ |
| operator |
California Department of Water Resources
ⓘ
United States Bureau of Reclamation ⓘ
linked to:
Bureau of Reclamation
|
| owner |
California Department of Water Resources
ⓘ
United States Bureau of Reclamation ⓘ
linked to:
Bureau of Reclamation
|
| partOf |
California State Water Project
ⓘ
linked to:
State Water Project
Central Valley Project ⓘ San Luis Unit ⓘ |
| purpose |
industrial water supply
ⓘ
irrigation water supply ⓘ municipal water supply ⓘ water storage ⓘ |
| reservoirCapacity | about 2,041,000 acre-feet ⓘ |
| reservoirElevation | about 544 feet ⓘ |
| reservoirName | San Luis Reservoir ⓘ |
| reservoirSurfaceArea | about 12,700 acres ⓘ |
| reservoirUse | carryover storage for CVP and SWP ⓘ |
| river | San Luis Creek ⓘ |
| spillwayType | overflow ⓘ |
| status | operational ⓘ |
| suppliesWaterTo |
San Joaquin Valley
ⓘ
Santa Clara Valley ⓘ |
| waterProject |
California State Water Project
ⓘ
linked to:
State Water Project
Central Valley Project ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: San Luis Dam Description of subject: San Luis Dam is a major earthfill embankment dam in California that impounds the San Luis Reservoir, one of the largest off-stream storage reservoirs in the United States.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.