Canning Dam
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Canning Dam is a major water supply reservoir and dam in Western Australia that provides drinking water to the Perth metropolitan area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Canning Dam canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5119827 — 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: Canning Dam Context triple: [Canning River, hasReservoir, Canning Dam]
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A.
Moondarra Dam
Moondarra Dam is a major water storage and irrigation structure in Queensland, Australia, built to supply water to the nearby city of Mount Isa and its mining operations.
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B.
Talbingo Dam
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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C.
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.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Canning Dam Target entity description: Canning Dam is a major water supply reservoir and dam in Western Australia that provides drinking water to the Perth metropolitan area.
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A.
Moondarra Dam
Moondarra Dam is a major water storage and irrigation structure in Queensland, Australia, built to supply water to the nearby city of Mount Isa and its mining operations.
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B.
Talbingo Dam
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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C.
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.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dam in Western Australia
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gravity dam ⓘ water supply reservoir ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Australia ⓘ |
| category |
Dams in Western Australia
ⓘ
Perth water supply infrastructure ⓘ Reservoirs in Western Australia ⓘ |
| constructionBegan | 1930 ⓘ |
| constructionPeriod | 1930s ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
flood mitigation
ⓘ
public recreation (surrounding area, limited) ⓘ regulation of river flow ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Canning River
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Canning River catchment ⓘ Darling Range ⓘ Perth metropolitan water supply area ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Armadale, Western Australia
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Perth ⓘ Roleystone, Western Australia ⓘ |
| managesWaterFor |
Perth metropolitan area
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linked to:
Greater Perth
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| openingDate | 1940 ⓘ |
| operator |
Water Corporation of Western Australia
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linked to:
Water Corporation (Western Australia)
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| owner | Government of Western Australia ⓘ |
| partOf | Perth Integrated Water Supply Scheme ⓘ |
| purpose |
drinking water supply
ⓘ
water storage ⓘ |
| riverCrossed | Canning River ⓘ |
| state | Western Australia ⓘ |
| waterSourceFor |
Perth
ⓘ
surrounding suburbs of Perth ⓘ |
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: Canning Dam Description of subject: Canning Dam is a major water supply reservoir and dam in Western Australia that provides drinking water to the Perth metropolitan area.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.