Hoist Dam
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Hoist Dam is a hydroelectric dam on Michigan’s Dead River that helps generate power and regulate water flow in the region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hoist Dam canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1913270 — 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: Hoist Dam Context triple: [Dead River (Michigan), hasDam, Hoist Dam]
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A.
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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B.
Denison Dam
Denison Dam is a large earthen dam on the Red River between Texas and Oklahoma, built for flood control, hydroelectric power generation, and water supply.
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C.
Watertown Dam
Watertown Dam is a historic low-head dam on the Charles River in Watertown, Massachusetts, that once powered local industry and now helps regulate river flow and fish passage.
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D.
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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E.
Croton Falls Dam
Croton Falls Dam is a masonry gravity dam in Westchester County, New York, that forms the Croton Falls Reservoir as part of New York 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: Hoist Dam Target entity description: Hoist Dam is a hydroelectric dam on Michigan’s Dead River that helps generate power and regulate water flow in the region.
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A.
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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B.
Denison Dam
Denison Dam is a large earthen dam on the Red River between Texas and Oklahoma, built for flood control, hydroelectric power generation, and water supply.
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C.
Watertown Dam
Watertown Dam is a historic low-head dam on the Charles River in Watertown, Massachusetts, that once powered local industry and now helps regulate river flow and fish passage.
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D.
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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E.
Croton Falls Dam
Croton Falls Dam is a masonry gravity dam in Westchester County, New York, that forms the Croton Falls Reservoir as part of New York City’s water supply system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
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: Hoist Dam Description of subject: Hoist Dam is a hydroelectric dam on Michigan’s Dead River that helps generate power and regulate water flow in the region.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.