Wausau Dam
E698944
Wausau Dam is a hydroelectric dam located on the Wisconsin River near the city of Wausau in central Wisconsin.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nekoosa Dam | 2 |
| Wausau Dam canonical | 1 |
| Wisconsin River hydroelectric system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7842844 — 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: Wausau Dam Context triple: [Wisconsin River, hasDam, Wausau Dam]
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A.
Weiss Dam
Weiss Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Coosa River in northeastern Alabama that impounds Weiss Lake for power generation, flood control, and recreation.
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B.
Keechelus Dam
Keechelus Dam is an earthfill dam in Washington State that forms Keechelus Lake, providing water storage and regulation as part of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Yakima irrigation system.
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C.
Granby Dam
Granby Dam is a major earthfill dam in Colorado that forms Lake Granby, a key storage reservoir supplying water for irrigation, municipal use, and power generation in the region.
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D.
Merwin Dam
Merwin Dam is a hydroelectric dam on Washington State’s Lewis River that forms Lake Merwin and generates power for the region.
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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: Wausau Dam Target entity description: Wausau Dam is a hydroelectric dam located on the Wisconsin River near the city of Wausau in central Wisconsin.
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A.
Weiss Dam
Weiss Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Coosa River in northeastern Alabama that impounds Weiss Lake for power generation, flood control, and recreation.
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B.
Keechelus Dam
Keechelus Dam is an earthfill dam in Washington State that forms Keechelus Lake, providing water storage and regulation as part of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Yakima irrigation system.
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C.
Granby Dam
Granby Dam is a major earthfill dam in Colorado that forms Lake Granby, a key storage reservoir supplying water for irrigation, municipal use, and power generation in the region.
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D.
Merwin Dam
Merwin Dam is a hydroelectric dam on Washington State’s Lewis River that forms Lake Merwin and generates power for the region.
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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 (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dam
ⓘ
hydroelectric dam ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasFunction |
electricity production
ⓘ
river flow control ⓘ |
| locatedInCounty | Marathon County, Wisconsin ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | central Wisconsin ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Wausau, Wisconsin ⓘ |
| locatedUpstreamFrom | Wausau, Wisconsin ⓘ |
| river | Wisconsin River ⓘ |
| state | Wisconsin ⓘ |
| use |
hydroelectric power generation
ⓘ
water level regulation ⓘ |
| watercourse | Wisconsin River ⓘ |
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: Wausau Dam Description of subject: Wausau Dam is a hydroelectric dam located on the Wisconsin River near the city of Wausau in central Wisconsin.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Wausau Dam
linked to: Wausau Dam
linked to: Wausau Dam