Bonneville Dam
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Bonneville Dam is a major hydroelectric and navigation dam on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest, known for power generation, fish ladders, and its role in regional river management.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bonneville Dam canonical | 9 |
| Bonneville Lock and Dam | 3 |
| Bonneville Dam complex | 1 |
| Bonneville First Powerhouse | 1 |
| Bonneville Lock | 1 |
| Bonneville Second Powerhouse | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T609993 — 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: Bonneville Dam Context triple: [Columbia River, hasDam, Bonneville Dam]
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A.
Grand Coulee Dam
Grand Coulee Dam is a massive concrete gravity dam on the Columbia River in Washington State, renowned as one of the largest power-producing facilities in the United States and a landmark of New Deal–era infrastructure.
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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.
Folsom Dam
Folsom Dam is a large concrete dam on the American River in California that provides flood control, water storage, and hydroelectric power for the Sacramento region.
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D.
Castaic Dam
Castaic Dam is a large embankment dam in Los Angeles County, California, that forms Castaic Lake and plays a key role in water storage and hydroelectric power generation for Southern California.
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E.
Shasta Dam
Shasta Dam is a large concrete gravity dam on California’s Sacramento River, forming Shasta Lake and serving as a key source of water storage, hydroelectric power, and flood control for the state.
- 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: Bonneville Dam Target entity description: Bonneville Dam is a major hydroelectric and navigation dam on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest, known for power generation, fish ladders, and its role in regional river management.
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A.
Grand Coulee Dam
Grand Coulee Dam is a massive concrete gravity dam on the Columbia River in Washington State, renowned as one of the largest power-producing facilities in the United States and a landmark of New Deal–era infrastructure.
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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.
Folsom Dam
Folsom Dam is a large concrete dam on the American River in California that provides flood control, water storage, and hydroelectric power for the Sacramento region.
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D.
Castaic Dam
Castaic Dam is a large embankment dam in Los Angeles County, California, that forms Castaic Lake and plays a key role in water storage and hydroelectric power generation for Southern California.
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E.
Shasta Dam
Shasta Dam is a large concrete gravity dam on California’s Sacramento River, forming Shasta Lake and serving as a key source of water storage, hydroelectric power, and flood control for the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
gravity dam
ⓘ
hydroelectric dam ⓘ navigation dam ⓘ run-of-the-river dam ⓘ |
| authorizedBy |
Public Works Administration (PWA)
ⓘ
surface form:
Public Works Administration
|
| builtUnderProgram | New Deal ⓘ |
| constructionBegan | 1933 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crosses | Columbia River ⓘ |
| electricityMarketedBy | Bonneville Power Administration ⓘ |
| hasFishCountingFacility | yes ⓘ |
| hasFishPassage |
fish ladders for salmon
ⓘ
fish ladders for steelhead ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Bonneville Dam
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Bonneville First Powerhouse
Bonneville Dam self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Bonneville Lock
Bonneville Dam self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Bonneville Second Powerhouse
fish hatchery ⓘ fish ladders ⓘ navigation lock ⓘ |
| hasSpillway | yes ⓘ |
| hasTurbineType | Kaplan turbines ⓘ |
| hasVisitorCenter | yes ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Great Depression ⓘ |
| listedOn | National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area
ⓘ
surface form:
Columbia River Gorge
Oregon ⓘ Washington ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Cascade Locks, Oregon
ⓘ
North Bonneville, Washington ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Columbia River ⓘ |
| managedBy |
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
ⓘ
surface form:
Portland District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
|
| nearProtectedArea | Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area ⓘ |
| NRHPListingYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| NRHPType | historic district ⓘ |
| opened | 1938 ⓘ |
| operator | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
United States government
ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal government
|
| partOf |
Columbia River hydropower system
ⓘ
surface form:
Federal Columbia River Power System
Public Works Administration (PWA) ⓘ
surface form:
New Deal public works projects
|
| purpose |
flood control
ⓘ
hydroelectric power generation ⓘ navigation ⓘ recreation ⓘ river regulation ⓘ |
| region | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| state |
Oregon
ⓘ
Washington ⓘ |
| usedFor |
barge traffic
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commercial navigation ⓘ regional power supply ⓘ |
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: Bonneville Dam Description of subject: Bonneville Dam is a major hydroelectric and navigation dam on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest, known for power generation, fish ladders, and its role in regional river management.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bonneville Dam complex
this entity surface form:
Bonneville Lock and Dam
this entity surface form:
Bonneville Lock
this entity surface form:
Bonneville First Powerhouse
this entity surface form:
Bonneville Second Powerhouse
this entity surface form:
Bonneville Lock and Dam
this entity surface form:
Bonneville Lock and Dam