Irving Dam
E752616
Irving Dam is a man-made structure on Michigan’s Thornapple River used primarily for water level control and related river management.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Irving Dam canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8172661 — 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: Irving Dam Context triple: [Thornapple River (Michigan), hasDam, Irving Dam]
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A.
Shawmut Dam
Shawmut Dam is a hydroelectric dam located on Maine’s Kennebec River, used for power generation and river flow management.
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B.
Conklingville Dam
Conklingville Dam is a concrete gravity dam in New York that created the Great Sacandaga Lake reservoir for flood control and hydroelectric power generation.
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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.
Lewiston Dam
Lewiston Dam is a concrete structure on the Trinity River in Northern California that forms Lewiston Lake and helps regulate water storage and diversion within the Trinity River Basin.
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E.
Watertown Dam
Watertown Dam is a historic low-head dam on the Charles River in Watertown, Massachusetts, that once powered local industry and now helps regulate river flow and fish passage.
- 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: Irving Dam Target entity description: Irving Dam is a man-made structure on Michigan’s Thornapple River used primarily for water level control and related river management.
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A.
Shawmut Dam
Shawmut Dam is a hydroelectric dam located on Maine’s Kennebec River, used for power generation and river flow management.
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B.
Conklingville Dam
Conklingville Dam is a concrete gravity dam in New York that created the Great Sacandaga Lake reservoir for flood control and hydroelectric power generation.
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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.
Lewiston Dam
Lewiston Dam is a concrete structure on the Trinity River in Northern California that forms Lewiston Lake and helps regulate water storage and diversion within the Trinity River Basin.
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E.
Watertown Dam
Watertown Dam is a historic low-head dam on the Charles River in Watertown, Massachusetts, that once powered local industry and now helps regulate river flow and fish passage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dam
ⓘ
man-made structure ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasFunction |
flow regulation
ⓘ
water impoundment ⓘ |
| isOnWaterbody | Thornapple River ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Michigan
ⓘ
Thornapple River ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| primaryUse | water level control ⓘ |
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| riverManaged | Thornapple River ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Michigan (most of state)
|
| use | river management ⓘ |
| watercourse | Thornapple 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: Irving Dam Description of subject: Irving Dam is a man-made structure on Michigan’s Thornapple River used primarily for water level control and related river management.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.