Shand Dam
E910468
Shand Dam is a major flood-control and water-management structure on Ontario’s Grand River, also used for recreation and hydroelectric power generation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shand Dam canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11132429 — 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: Shand Dam Context triple: [Grand River, hasDam, Shand Dam]
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A.
Geheyan Dam
Geheyan Dam is a large concrete gravity dam on the Qing River in Hubei, China, primarily used for hydroelectric power generation and flood control.
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B.
Shuibuya Dam
Shuibuya Dam is a major concrete-face rock-fill dam on China’s Qing River, known for its large hydroelectric power station and significant role in regional flood control and water management.
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C.
Tilaiya Dam
Tilaiya Dam is a multipurpose masonry dam in Jharkhand, India, built as part of the Damodar Valley Corporation project to provide hydroelectric power, irrigation, and flood control.
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D.
Pubugou Dam
Pubugou Dam is a large hydroelectric gravity dam in Sichuan, China, known for its significant power generation capacity and its role in flood control and regional development along the Dadu River.
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E.
Baihetan Dam
Baihetan Dam is a major Chinese hydroelectric gravity dam on the Jinsha (upper Yangtze) River, known as one of the world’s largest hydropower projects by installed capacity.
- 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: Shand Dam Target entity description: Shand Dam is a major flood-control and water-management structure on Ontario’s Grand River, also used for recreation and hydroelectric power generation.
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A.
Geheyan Dam
Geheyan Dam is a large concrete gravity dam on the Qing River in Hubei, China, primarily used for hydroelectric power generation and flood control.
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B.
Shuibuya Dam
Shuibuya Dam is a major concrete-face rock-fill dam on China’s Qing River, known for its large hydroelectric power station and significant role in regional flood control and water management.
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C.
Tilaiya Dam
Tilaiya Dam is a multipurpose masonry dam in Jharkhand, India, built as part of the Damodar Valley Corporation project to provide hydroelectric power, irrigation, and flood control.
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D.
Pubugou Dam
Pubugou Dam is a large hydroelectric gravity dam in Sichuan, China, known for its significant power generation capacity and its role in flood control and regional development along the Dadu River.
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E.
Baihetan Dam
Baihetan Dam is a major Chinese hydroelectric gravity dam on the Jinsha (upper Yangtze) River, known as one of the world’s largest hydropower projects by installed capacity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dam
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flood-control structure ⓘ water-management infrastructure ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Canada ⓘ |
| category |
Dams in Ontario
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Flood control infrastructure in Canada ⓘ Hydroelectric power stations in Ontario ⓘ |
| controls | flooding on the Grand River ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
generating hydroelectric power
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reducing downstream flood risk ⓘ regulating river water levels ⓘ supporting recreational activities ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Grand River watershed infrastructure ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Canada
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Grand River NERFINISHED ⓘ Ontario ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeArea | Province of Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manages | Grand River flow ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
flood control
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water management ⓘ |
| river | Grand River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| use |
hydroelectric power generation
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recreation ⓘ |
| watercourse | Grand River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Shand Dam Description of subject: Shand Dam is a major flood-control and water-management structure on Ontario’s Grand River, also used for recreation and hydroelectric power generation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.