Scrivener Dam
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Scrivener Dam is a concrete gravity dam in Canberra, Australia, built across the Molonglo River to create Lake Burley Griffin as the city’s central ornamental lake.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scrivener Dam canonical | 6 |
| Corin Dam | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1121423 — 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: Scrivener Dam Context triple: [Lake Burley Griffin, crossedBy, Scrivener Dam]
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A.
The Dam
The Dam is the official name of the Oregon State Beavers football student section, known for its loud, energetic support at home games in Corvallis.
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B.
Parker Dam
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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C.
O'Shaughnessy Dam
O'Shaughnessy Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in Yosemite National Park that creates the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, supplying water and hydroelectric power to the San Francisco Bay Area.
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D.
Wheeler Dam
Wheeler Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in northern Alabama that forms Wheeler Lake and helps provide power, navigation, and flood control in the region.
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E.
Prosser Creek Dam
Prosser Creek Dam is an earthfill dam in Nevada County, California, that creates Prosser Creek Reservoir for water storage, flood control, and recreation in the Truckee River basin.
- 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: Scrivener Dam Target entity description: Scrivener Dam is a concrete gravity dam in Canberra, Australia, built across the Molonglo River to create Lake Burley Griffin as the city’s central ornamental lake.
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A.
The Dam
The Dam is the official name of the Oregon State Beavers football student section, known for its loud, energetic support at home games in Corvallis.
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B.
Parker Dam
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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C.
O'Shaughnessy Dam
O'Shaughnessy Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in Yosemite National Park that creates the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, supplying water and hydroelectric power to the San Francisco Bay Area.
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D.
Wheeler Dam
Wheeler Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in northern Alabama that forms Wheeler Lake and helps provide power, navigation, and flood control in the region.
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E.
Prosser Creek Dam
Prosser Creek Dam is an earthfill dam in Nevada County, California, that creates Prosser Creek Reservoir for water storage, flood control, and recreation in the Truckee River basin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
concrete gravity dam
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dam ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Australia ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1960 ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| createsReservoir | Lake Burley Griffin ⓘ |
| crosses | Molonglo River ⓘ |
| designedBy | Commonwealth Department of Works ⓘ |
| designType | concrete gravity ⓘ |
| function |
flood control
ⓘ
water level regulation for Lake Burley Griffin ⓘ |
| gatedSpillway | yes ⓘ |
| hasSpillway | yes ⓘ |
| impounds |
Lake Burley Griffin
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Molonglo River ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Canberra ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Molonglo River ⓘ |
| locationCity | Canberra ⓘ |
| locationState | Australian Capital Territory ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Charles Robert Scrivener ⓘ |
| nearbyLandmark |
Parliament House, Canberra
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Yarralumla ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1963 ⓘ |
| operator | National Capital Authority ⓘ |
| partOf | Lake Burley Griffin scheme ⓘ |
| purpose |
aesthetic enhancement of Canberra city centre
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creation of ornamental lake ⓘ recreation ⓘ |
| region | Australian Capital Territory ⓘ |
| spillwayType | controlled ⓘ |
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: Scrivener Dam Description of subject: Scrivener Dam is a concrete gravity dam in Canberra, Australia, built across the Molonglo River to create Lake Burley Griffin as the city’s central ornamental lake.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Scrivener Dam