Dam
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Dam is a Dutch surname borne by various notable individuals, including architects, politicians, and artists, and is relatively common in the Netherlands.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dam canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7839893 — 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: Dam Context triple: [Cees Dam, familyName, Dam]
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A.
Dike
Dike is the Greek goddess of justice and moral order, often depicted as a guardian of human righteousness and fairness.
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B.
The Dam
The Dam is the official name of the Oregon State Beavers football student section, known for its loud, energetic support at home games in Corvallis.
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C.
Martin Dam
Martin Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tallapoosa River in Alabama that forms Lake Martin, one of the largest man-made lakes in the United States.
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D.
Spillway
Spillway is a lesser-known work by modernist writer Djuna Barnes, reflecting her distinctive experimental style and themes.
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E.
Forge Dam
Forge Dam is a popular recreational park and former industrial mill site along Porter Brook in Sheffield, England, known for its woodland walks, playground, and café.
- 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: Dam Target entity description: Dam is a Dutch surname borne by various notable individuals, including architects, politicians, and artists, and is relatively common in the Netherlands.
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A.
Dike
Dike is the Greek goddess of justice and moral order, often depicted as a guardian of human righteousness and fairness.
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B.
The Dam
The Dam is the official name of the Oregon State Beavers football student section, known for its loud, energetic support at home games in Corvallis.
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C.
Martin Dam
Martin Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tallapoosa River in Alabama that forms Lake Martin, one of the largest man-made lakes in the United States.
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D.
Spillway
Spillway is a lesser-known work by modernist writer Djuna Barnes, reflecting her distinctive experimental style and themes.
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E.
Forge Dam
Forge Dam is a popular recreational park and former industrial mill site along Porter Brook in Sheffield, England, known for its woodland walks, playground, and café.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Dam Description of subject: Dam is a Dutch surname borne by various notable individuals, including architects, politicians, and artists, and is relatively common in the Netherlands.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.