Cherokee Dam
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Cherokee Dam is a Tennessee Valley Authority hydroelectric dam in Tennessee that forms Cherokee Lake and provides flood control, power generation, and recreational opportunities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cherokee Dam canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6510731 — 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: Cherokee Dam Context triple: [Holston River, hasDam, Cherokee Dam]
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A.
Trinity Dam
Trinity Dam is a major earthfill dam on the Trinity River in Northern California, forming Trinity Lake and providing water storage, hydroelectric power, and flood control as part of the state’s large federal water management system.
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B.
Sherman Dam
Sherman Dam is a hydroelectric and flood-control structure located on the Deerfield River in the northeastern United States.
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C.
Chickamauga Dam
Chickamauga Dam is a Tennessee Valley Authority hydroelectric dam and navigation lock structure near Chattanooga, Tennessee, that helps generate power, control flooding, and improve river transportation on the Tennessee River.
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D.
Dry Falls Dam
Dry Falls Dam is a key irrigation and water management structure in central Washington State, built as part of the Columbia Basin Project to help distribute Columbia River water to surrounding agricultural lands.
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E.
Goodwin Dam
Goodwin Dam is a concrete gravity diversion dam on California’s Stanislaus River that helps regulate river flow and supplies irrigation water to surrounding agricultural areas.
- 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: Cherokee Dam Target entity description: Cherokee Dam is a Tennessee Valley Authority hydroelectric dam in Tennessee that forms Cherokee Lake and provides flood control, power generation, and recreational opportunities.
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A.
Trinity Dam
Trinity Dam is a major earthfill dam on the Trinity River in Northern California, forming Trinity Lake and providing water storage, hydroelectric power, and flood control as part of the state’s large federal water management system.
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B.
Sherman Dam
Sherman Dam is a hydroelectric and flood-control structure located on the Deerfield River in the northeastern United States.
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C.
Chickamauga Dam
Chickamauga Dam is a Tennessee Valley Authority hydroelectric dam and navigation lock structure near Chattanooga, Tennessee, that helps generate power, control flooding, and improve river transportation on the Tennessee River.
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D.
Dry Falls Dam
Dry Falls Dam is a key irrigation and water management structure in central Washington State, built as part of the Columbia Basin Project to help distribute Columbia River water to surrounding agricultural lands.
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E.
Goodwin Dam
Goodwin Dam is a concrete gravity diversion dam on California’s Stanislaus River that helps regulate river flow and supplies irrigation water to surrounding agricultural areas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
gravity dam
ⓘ
hydroelectric dam ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| constructionBegan | 1940 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdByProgram | New Deal-era public works ⓘ |
| formsReservoir | Cherokee Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gridConnection | Tennessee Valley Authority power grid ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
peak power generation
ⓘ
water level regulation ⓘ |
| hasPowerPlant | yes ⓘ |
| hasRecreationalActivities |
boating
ⓘ
camping ⓘ fishing ⓘ |
| hasSpillway | yes ⓘ |
| height |
approximately 160 feet
ⓘ
approximately 52 meters ⓘ |
| inflow | Holston River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| length |
approximately 2,850 feet
ⓘ
approximately 869 meters ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Tennessee ⓘ |
| locatedInCounty |
Grainger County, Tennessee
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jefferson County, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInWatershed | Tennessee River watershed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Jefferson City, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Holston River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| managingAgency | Tennessee Valley Authority NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Cherokee people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1942 ⓘ |
| operator | Tennessee Valley Authority NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| outflow | Holston River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Tennessee Valley Authority NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Tennessee Valley Authority system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose |
flood control
ⓘ
hydroelectric power generation ⓘ recreation ⓘ |
| region | East Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reservoirName | Cherokee Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reservoirType | artificial lake ⓘ |
| reservoirUse |
flood control
ⓘ
hydroelectric power ⓘ recreation ⓘ |
| status | operational ⓘ |
| usedFor |
navigation support downstream
ⓘ
regional economic development ⓘ |
| watercourseDammed | Holston River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Cherokee Dam Description of subject: Cherokee Dam is a Tennessee Valley Authority hydroelectric dam in Tennessee that forms Cherokee Lake and provides flood control, power generation, and recreational opportunities.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.