Howden Reservoir
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Howden Reservoir is a large man-made lake in Derbyshire’s Peak District, known as part of the Upper Derwent Valley chain of reservoirs supplying water to nearby cities and popular for its scenic surroundings and outdoor recreation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fernilee Reservoir | 1 |
| Howden Reservoir canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1481771 — 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: Howden Reservoir Context triple: [River Derwent (Derbyshire), impoundedBy, Howden Reservoir]
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Foziling Reservoir
Foziling Reservoir is a major multipurpose water conservancy project in Anhui Province, China, known for flood control, irrigation, and water supply within the Huai River basin.
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Fells Reservoir
Fells Reservoir is a man-made water body in Massachusetts that serves as part of the regional water supply and recreational landscape within the Middlesex Fells Reservation.
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Dovestones Reservoir
Dovestones Reservoir is a scenic man-made lake in the Peak District near Oldham, England, popular for walking, wildlife, and outdoor recreation.
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Derwent Reservoir
Derwent Reservoir is a large man-made lake in Derbyshire, England, best known for its scenic surroundings in the Peak District and its historical association with the World War II "Dambusters" training flights.
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Ladybower Reservoir
Ladybower Reservoir is a large Y-shaped drinking-water reservoir in the Upper Derwent Valley of Derbyshire, England, known for its distinctive plughole spillways and surrounding Peak District scenery.
- 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: Howden Reservoir Target entity description: Howden Reservoir is a large man-made lake in Derbyshire’s Peak District, known as part of the Upper Derwent Valley chain of reservoirs supplying water to nearby cities and popular for its scenic surroundings and outdoor recreation.
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A.
Foziling Reservoir
Foziling Reservoir is a major multipurpose water conservancy project in Anhui Province, China, known for flood control, irrigation, and water supply within the Huai River basin.
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B.
Fells Reservoir
Fells Reservoir is a man-made water body in Massachusetts that serves as part of the regional water supply and recreational landscape within the Middlesex Fells Reservation.
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C.
Dovestones Reservoir
Dovestones Reservoir is a scenic man-made lake in the Peak District near Oldham, England, popular for walking, wildlife, and outdoor recreation.
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D.
Derwent Reservoir
Derwent Reservoir is a large man-made lake in Derbyshire, England, best known for its scenic surroundings in the Peak District and its historical association with the World War II "Dambusters" training flights.
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E.
Ladybower Reservoir
Ladybower Reservoir is a large Y-shaped drinking-water reservoir in the Upper Derwent Valley of Derbyshire, England, known for its distinctive plughole spillways and surrounding Peak District scenery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Howden Reservoir Description of subject: Howden Reservoir is a large man-made lake in Derbyshire’s Peak District, known as part of the Upper Derwent Valley chain of reservoirs supplying water to nearby cities and popular for its scenic surroundings and outdoor recreation.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
River Derwent
linked to: Howden Reservoir