Roseires Reservoir
E736450
Roseires Reservoir is a large artificial lake in Sudan formed by the Roseires Dam on the Blue Nile, used primarily for irrigation, hydropower generation, and water storage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Roseires Reservoir canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8365071 — 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: Roseires Reservoir Context triple: [Roseires Dam, reservoirName, Roseires Reservoir]
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A.
Woodhead Reservoir
Woodhead Reservoir is a major man-made lake in the Longdendale Valley in northern England, built to supply water and help regulate flows along the River Etherow.
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B.
Rur Reservoir
Rur Reservoir is a large artificial lake in Germany’s Eifel region, known for its scenic surroundings, recreational activities, and role in regional water management.
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C.
Urft Reservoir
Urft Reservoir is a historic artificial lake in Germany’s Eifel region, known for its early 20th-century dam and scenic setting within Eifel National Park.
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D.
Bonaly Reservoir
Bonaly Reservoir is a man-made upland water body in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, popular for walking, wildlife, and scenic views.
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E.
Roundhill Reservoir
Roundhill Reservoir is a man-made lake in North Yorkshire, England, serving as a water supply reservoir in the upper catchment of the River Ure.
- 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: Roseires Reservoir Target entity description: Roseires Reservoir is a large artificial lake in Sudan formed by the Roseires Dam on the Blue Nile, used primarily for irrigation, hydropower generation, and water storage.
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A.
Woodhead Reservoir
Woodhead Reservoir is a major man-made lake in the Longdendale Valley in northern England, built to supply water and help regulate flows along the River Etherow.
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B.
Rur Reservoir
Rur Reservoir is a large artificial lake in Germany’s Eifel region, known for its scenic surroundings, recreational activities, and role in regional water management.
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C.
Urft Reservoir
Urft Reservoir is a historic artificial lake in Germany’s Eifel region, known for its early 20th-century dam and scenic setting within Eifel National Park.
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D.
Bonaly Reservoir
Bonaly Reservoir is a man-made upland water body in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, popular for walking, wildlife, and scenic views.
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E.
Roundhill Reservoir
Roundhill Reservoir is a man-made lake in North Yorkshire, England, serving as a water supply reservoir in the upper catchment of the River Ure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | reservoir ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Sudan hydropower system
ⓘ
Sudan irrigation infrastructure ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Sudan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1966 ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 1961 ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Sudan ⓘ |
| createdByProject | Roseires Dam project NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formedBy | Roseires Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAssociatedStructure | Roseires Dam power station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDamType | embankment dam (Roseires Dam) ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentalImpact |
changes in downstream flow regime
ⓘ
sedimentation ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
storage of Blue Nile floodwaters
ⓘ
support multi-year water regulation plans ⓘ |
| inflow | Blue Nile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedEastOf | Sudan–South Sudan border NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Sudan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Blue Nile state
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
southeastern Sudan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Ad Damazin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Blue Nile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearBorderWith | Ethiopia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatorCountry | Sudan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| outflow | Blue Nile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Blue Nile river system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
hydropower generation
ⓘ
irrigation ⓘ water storage ⓘ |
| purpose |
electricity production
ⓘ
increase dry-season water availability ⓘ regulate Blue Nile flow ⓘ support Gezira irrigation scheme ⓘ |
| usedFor |
agricultural development in Sudan
ⓘ
domestic water supply support ⓘ |
| watercourse | Blue Nile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| waterManagementRole |
flood control on Blue Nile
ⓘ
seasonal flow regulation ⓘ |
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: Roseires Reservoir Description of subject: Roseires Reservoir is a large artificial lake in Sudan formed by the Roseires Dam on the Blue Nile, used primarily for irrigation, hydropower generation, and water storage.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.