Aras Dam
E521025
Aras Dam is a major hydroelectric and irrigation dam on the transboundary Aras River, playing a key role in water management and power generation in the region between Iran and the South Caucasus.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aras Dam canonical | 3 |
| Aras Dam power station | 1 |
| Aras Reservoir | 1 |
| Khoda Afarin Dam | 1 |
| Moghan Dam | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5446028 — 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: Aras Dam Context triple: [Aras River, hasDam, Aras Dam]
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A.
Keban Dam
Keban Dam is a major hydroelectric and flood-control dam in eastern Turkey that forms one of the largest reservoirs on the Euphrates River.
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B.
Enguri Dam
Enguri Dam is a massive arch dam in western Georgia, notable as one of the tallest concrete arch dams in the world and a key source of hydroelectric power for the region.
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C.
Atatürk Dam
Atatürk Dam is one of Turkey’s largest and most significant hydroelectric and irrigation dams, forming a key part of the Southeastern Anatolia Project on the Euphrates River.
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D.
Shashe Dam
Shashe Dam is a water reservoir structure built on the Shashe River, primarily used for water supply, irrigation, and regional resource management.
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E.
Almatti Dam
Almatti Dam is a major hydroelectric and irrigation dam in Karnataka, India, built across the Krishna River as part of the Upper Krishna Project.
- 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: Aras Dam Target entity description: Aras Dam is a major hydroelectric and irrigation dam on the transboundary Aras River, playing a key role in water management and power generation in the region between Iran and the South Caucasus.
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A.
Keban Dam
Keban Dam is a major hydroelectric and flood-control dam in eastern Turkey that forms one of the largest reservoirs on the Euphrates River.
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B.
Enguri Dam
Enguri Dam is a massive arch dam in western Georgia, notable as one of the tallest concrete arch dams in the world and a key source of hydroelectric power for the region.
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C.
Atatürk Dam
Atatürk Dam is one of Turkey’s largest and most significant hydroelectric and irrigation dams, forming a key part of the Southeastern Anatolia Project on the Euphrates River.
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D.
Shashe Dam
Shashe Dam is a water reservoir structure built on the Shashe River, primarily used for water supply, irrigation, and regional resource management.
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E.
Almatti Dam
Almatti Dam is a major hydroelectric and irrigation dam in Karnataka, India, built across the Krishna River as part of the Upper Krishna Project.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
gravity dam
ⓘ
hydroelectric dam ⓘ irrigation dam ⓘ |
| borderRiver | Aras River ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 1963 ⓘ |
| cooperativeProjectBetween |
Iran
ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ |
| country | Iran ⓘ |
| designedBy |
Iranian engineers
ⓘ
Soviet engineers ⓘ |
| energySource | hydropower ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentalEffect |
creation of reservoir habitat
ⓘ
modification of natural flow regime of Aras River ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
regulation of Aras River flow
ⓘ
sediment control ⓘ |
| hasHydropowerPlant |
Aras Dam power station
ⓘ
linked to:
Aras Dam
|
| hasSpillwayType | gated spillway ⓘ |
| impact |
contributes to regional electricity supply
ⓘ
supports regional irrigation schemes ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
South Caucasus region
ⓘ
linked to:
South Caucasus
West Asia ⓘ
linked to:
Western Asia
|
| locatedInBasin |
Aras River basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Kura–Aras basin
|
| locatedInRegion | East Azerbaijan Province ⓘ |
| locatedInTransboundaryRiverSystem |
Iran–South Caucasus
ⓘ
linked to:
South Caucasus
|
| locatedNear |
Iran–Azerbaijan border
ⓘ
Jolfa ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver |
Aras River
ⓘ
linked to:
Araz River
|
| managesWaterFor |
agricultural areas in northwestern Iran
ⓘ
agricultural areas in the South Caucasus ⓘ |
| nearbyProtectedArea | Arasbaran region ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1971 ⓘ |
| operatorCountry |
Azerbaijan
ⓘ
Iran ⓘ |
| partOf | Iran–Azerbaijan water management system ⓘ |
| purpose |
flood control
ⓘ
hydroelectric power generation ⓘ irrigation ⓘ water supply ⓘ |
| reservoirName | Aras Reservoir ⓘ |
| reservoirUse |
hydropower storage
ⓘ
irrigation water storage ⓘ |
| sharedInfrastructureWith | Azerbaijan ⓘ |
| transboundaryWaterInfrastructureBetween |
Azerbaijan
ⓘ
Iran ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cross-border water cooperation
ⓘ
regional development ⓘ |
| waterManagementRole | allocation of Aras River water between riparian states ⓘ |
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: Aras Dam Description of subject: Aras Dam is a major hydroelectric and irrigation dam on the transboundary Aras River, playing a key role in water management and power generation in the region between Iran and the South Caucasus.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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