Parker Dam
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Parker Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River best known for creating Lake Havasu and supplying water and hydroelectric power to parts of California and Arizona.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Parker Dam canonical | 10 |
| Parker Dam on the Colorado River | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T773866 — 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: Parker Dam Context triple: [Colorado River near present-day Needles, California, upstreamOf, Parker Dam]
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Red Rock Dam
Red Rock Dam is a large flood-control and hydroelectric dam on the Des Moines River in central Iowa, forming Lake Red Rock as the state’s largest reservoir.
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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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Norris Dam
Norris Dam is a Tennessee Valley Authority hydroelectric dam on the Clinch River in eastern Tennessee, notable as TVA’s first major dam project and a key component of regional flood control and power generation.
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Melton Hill Dam
Melton Hill Dam is a Tennessee Valley Authority hydroelectric dam on the Clinch River in East Tennessee, forming Melton Hill Lake and providing power generation, recreation, and flood control for the Knoxville area.
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Hollywood Dam
Hollywood Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles that impounds the Hollywood Reservoir as part of the city’s water supply system.
- 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: Parker Dam Target entity description: Parker Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River best known for creating Lake Havasu and supplying water and hydroelectric power to parts of California and Arizona.
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A.
Red Rock Dam
Red Rock Dam is a large flood-control and hydroelectric dam on the Des Moines River in central Iowa, forming Lake Red Rock as the state’s largest reservoir.
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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.
Norris Dam
Norris Dam is a Tennessee Valley Authority hydroelectric dam on the Clinch River in eastern Tennessee, notable as TVA’s first major dam project and a key component of regional flood control and power generation.
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D.
Melton Hill Dam
Melton Hill Dam is a Tennessee Valley Authority hydroelectric dam on the Clinch River in East Tennessee, forming Melton Hill Lake and providing power generation, recreation, and flood control for the Knoxville area.
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E.
Hollywood Dam
Hollywood Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles that impounds the Hollywood Reservoir as part of the city’s water supply system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Parker Dam Description of subject: Parker Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River best known for creating Lake Havasu and supplying water and hydroelectric power to parts of California and Arizona.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Parker Dam on the Colorado River