Ross River Dam
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Ross River Dam is a major water storage and flood mitigation structure near Townsville in Queensland, Australia, supplying drinking water and helping protect the region from flooding.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ross River Dam canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11372838 — 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: Ross River Dam Context triple: [Ross River, hasReservoir, Ross River Dam]
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A.
Moondarra Dam
Moondarra Dam is a major water storage and irrigation structure in Queensland, Australia, built to supply water to the nearby city of Mount Isa and its mining operations.
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B.
Eucumbene Dam
Eucumbene Dam is a major rock-fill embankment dam in New South Wales, Australia, forming part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme and impounding Lake Eucumbene for hydroelectric power generation and water storage.
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C.
Talbingo Dam
Talbingo Dam is a major rockfill embankment dam in New South Wales, Australia, forming part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme and creating Talbingo Reservoir for hydroelectric power generation and water storage.
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D.
Glenmore Dam
Glenmore Dam is a concrete gravity dam in Calgary, Alberta, that creates the Glenmore Reservoir for the city’s drinking water supply and flood control.
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E.
Victoria Dam
Victoria Dam is a major hydroelectric and irrigation dam in Sri Lanka, forming part of the Mahaweli Development Programme and creating the Victoria Reservoir on the Mahaweli River.
- 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: Ross River Dam Target entity description: Ross River Dam is a major water storage and flood mitigation structure near Townsville in Queensland, Australia, supplying drinking water and helping protect the region from flooding.
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A.
Moondarra Dam
Moondarra Dam is a major water storage and irrigation structure in Queensland, Australia, built to supply water to the nearby city of Mount Isa and its mining operations.
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B.
Eucumbene Dam
Eucumbene Dam is a major rock-fill embankment dam in New South Wales, Australia, forming part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme and impounding Lake Eucumbene for hydroelectric power generation and water storage.
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C.
Talbingo Dam
Talbingo Dam is a major rockfill embankment dam in New South Wales, Australia, forming part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme and creating Talbingo Reservoir for hydroelectric power generation and water storage.
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D.
Glenmore Dam
Glenmore Dam is a concrete gravity dam in Calgary, Alberta, that creates the Glenmore Reservoir for the city’s drinking water supply and flood control.
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E.
Victoria Dam
Victoria Dam is a major hydroelectric and irrigation dam in Sri Lanka, forming part of the Mahaweli Development Programme and creating the Victoria Reservoir on the Mahaweli River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dam
ⓘ
reservoir ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Australia ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
flood protection
ⓘ
flow regulation ⓘ major water storage ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn |
regional flood mitigation for Townsville
ⓘ
securing Townsville’s potable water supply ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Townsville water supply system ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
City of Townsville local government area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Queensland ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Kelso
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Townsville NERFINISHED ⓘ Upper Ross area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Ross River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| managingAuthority |
Sunwater
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Townsville City Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protectsAreaFromFlooding |
Ross River floodplain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Townsville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose |
flood mitigation
ⓘ
recreation ⓘ water supply ⓘ |
| region | North Queensland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Queensland ⓘ |
| suppliesDrinkingWaterTo |
Townsville
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
surrounding region of Townsville ⓘ |
| usedFor |
boating
ⓘ
flood control ⓘ outdoor recreation ⓘ recreational fishing ⓘ urban water supply ⓘ |
| watercourse | Ross 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: Ross River Dam Description of subject: Ross River Dam is a major water storage and flood mitigation structure near Townsville in Queensland, Australia, supplying drinking water and helping protect the region from flooding.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.