Rondout Dam
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Rondout Dam is a major earthen dam in New York that impounds the Rondout Reservoir as part of the New York City water supply system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rondout Dam canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3224858 — 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: Rondout Dam Context triple: [Rondout Reservoir, createdBy, Rondout Dam]
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Kensico Dam
Kensico Dam is a massive early-20th-century masonry dam in Valhalla, New York, that forms the Kensico Reservoir and serves as a key component of New York City's water supply system.
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B.
Palisades Dam
Palisades Dam is a large earthfill dam in eastern Idaho that provides irrigation water storage, hydroelectric power, and flood control on the upper Snake River.
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Rondout Reservoir
Rondout Reservoir is a major New York City water supply reservoir in the Catskill Mountains, formed by damming Rondout Creek and serving as a key component of the city’s Catskill–Delaware water system.
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D.
Old Croton Dam
Old Croton Dam was the original 19th-century masonry dam that formed part of New York City’s first major public water supply system before being superseded by the New Croton Dam.
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E.
Neversink Reservoir
Neversink Reservoir is a major Catskill Mountain water supply reservoir in New York that forms part of New York City’s upstate drinking water 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: Rondout Dam Target entity description: Rondout Dam is a major earthen dam in New York that impounds the Rondout Reservoir as part of the New York City water supply system.
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A.
Kensico Dam
Kensico Dam is a massive early-20th-century masonry dam in Valhalla, New York, that forms the Kensico Reservoir and serves as a key component of New York City's water supply system.
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B.
Palisades Dam
Palisades Dam is a large earthfill dam in eastern Idaho that provides irrigation water storage, hydroelectric power, and flood control on the upper Snake River.
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C.
Rondout Reservoir
Rondout Reservoir is a major New York City water supply reservoir in the Catskill Mountains, formed by damming Rondout Creek and serving as a key component of the city’s Catskill–Delaware water system.
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D.
Old Croton Dam
Old Croton Dam was the original 19th-century masonry dam that formed part of New York City’s first major public water supply system before being superseded by the New Croton Dam.
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E.
Neversink Reservoir
Neversink Reservoir is a major Catskill Mountain water supply reservoir in New York that forms part of New York City’s upstate drinking water system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
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: Rondout Dam Description of subject: Rondout Dam is a major earthen dam in New York that impounds the Rondout Reservoir as part of the New York City water supply system.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.