Talbingo Dam
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Talbingo Dam is a major rockfill embankment dam in New South Wales, Australia, forming part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme and creating Talbingo Reservoir for hydroelectric power generation and water storage.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Talbingo Reservoir | 4 |
| Talbingo Dam canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4281683 — 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: Talbingo Dam Context triple: [Tumut River, hasDam, Talbingo Dam]
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A.
Eucumbene Dam
Eucumbene Dam is a major rock-fill embankment dam in New South Wales, Australia, forming part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme and impounding Lake Eucumbene for hydroelectric power generation and water storage.
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B.
Burrinjuck Dam
Burrinjuck Dam is a major concrete gravity dam in New South Wales, Australia, built on the Murrumbidgee River for irrigation, hydroelectric power generation, and flood mitigation.
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C.
Googong Dam
Googong Dam is a major water storage and supply reservoir serving the Canberra–Queanbeyan region in southeastern Australia.
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D.
Blowering Dam
Blowering Dam is a major rockfill embankment dam on the Tumut River in New South Wales, Australia, forming Blowering Reservoir and playing a key role in hydroelectric power generation, irrigation, and flood mitigation within the Murrumbidgee catchment.
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E.
Hume Dam
Hume Dam is a major concrete gravity dam in southeastern Australia that forms Lake Hume and plays a key role in water storage, irrigation, and flood control in the Murray–Darling Basin.
- 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: Talbingo Dam Target entity description: Talbingo Dam is a major rockfill embankment dam in New South Wales, Australia, forming part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme and creating Talbingo Reservoir for hydroelectric power generation and water storage.
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A.
Eucumbene Dam
Eucumbene Dam is a major rock-fill embankment dam in New South Wales, Australia, forming part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme and impounding Lake Eucumbene for hydroelectric power generation and water storage.
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B.
Burrinjuck Dam
Burrinjuck Dam is a major concrete gravity dam in New South Wales, Australia, built on the Murrumbidgee River for irrigation, hydroelectric power generation, and flood mitigation.
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C.
Googong Dam
Googong Dam is a major water storage and supply reservoir serving the Canberra–Queanbeyan region in southeastern Australia.
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D.
Blowering Dam
Blowering Dam is a major rockfill embankment dam on the Tumut River in New South Wales, Australia, forming Blowering Reservoir and playing a key role in hydroelectric power generation, irrigation, and flood mitigation within the Murrumbidgee catchment.
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E.
Hume Dam
Hume Dam is a major concrete gravity dam in southeastern Australia that forms Lake Hume and plays a key role in water storage, irrigation, and flood control in the Murray–Darling Basin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hydroelectric dam
ⓘ
rockfill embankment dam ⓘ |
| associatedPowerStation | Tumut 3 Power Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructionBegan | 1968 ⓘ |
| constructionMaterial |
earthfill
ⓘ
rockfill ⓘ |
| continent | Australia ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| creates | Talbingo Reservoir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| damType |
embankment
ⓘ
rockfill ⓘ |
| elevationAtCrest | 546 m ⓘ |
| hasEnergyInfrastructure | Tumut 3 hydroelectric power station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
flood mitigation
ⓘ
water regulation ⓘ |
| height | 161 m ⓘ |
| length | 700 m ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New South Wales
ⓘ
Snowy Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInProtectedArea | Kosciuszko National Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| managedBy | Snowy Hydro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearestTown | Talbingo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1971 ⓘ |
| operator | Snowy Hydro Limited NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | Snowy Hydro Limited NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Snowy Mountains Scheme
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Snowy-Tumut Development NERFINISHED ⓘ Tumut River hydroelectric system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose |
hydroelectric power generation
ⓘ
water storage ⓘ |
| region | Riverina ⓘ |
| reservoirCapacityTotal | 921,400,000 m3 ⓘ |
| reservoirCatchmentArea | 1,914 km2 ⓘ |
| reservoirName | Talbingo Reservoir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reservoirSurfaceArea | 1,690 ha ⓘ |
| riverCrossed | Tumut River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spillwayCapacity | 5,093 m3/s ⓘ |
| spillwayType | uncontrolled chute ⓘ |
| state | New South Wales ⓘ |
| status | operational ⓘ |
| usedFor |
peak electricity generation
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water diversion within Snowy Mountains Scheme ⓘ |
| volume | 14,200,000 m3 ⓘ |
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: Talbingo Dam Description of subject: Talbingo Dam is a major rockfill embankment dam in New South Wales, Australia, forming part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme and creating Talbingo Reservoir for hydroelectric power generation and water storage.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Talbingo Reservoir
this entity surface form:
Talbingo Reservoir
this entity surface form:
Talbingo Reservoir
this entity surface form:
Talbingo Reservoir