Old Melones Dam
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Old Melones Dam was an earlier dam on the Stanislaus River in California that was later submerged and rendered obsolete by the construction of New Melones Dam.
All labels observed (1)
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3083149 — 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: Old Melones Dam Context triple: [New Melones Dam, replaced, Old Melones Dam]
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A.
McClure Dam
McClure Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Dead River in Michigan, forming McClure Basin and providing power and water management for the surrounding region.
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B.
Forestville Dam
Forestville Dam is a hydroelectric and recreational dam located on the Dead River near Marquette in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
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C.
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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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- 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: Old Melones Dam Target entity description: Old Melones Dam was an earlier dam on the Stanislaus River in California that was later submerged and rendered obsolete by the construction of New Melones Dam.
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A.
McClure Dam
McClure Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Dead River in Michigan, forming McClure Basin and providing power and water management for the surrounding region.
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B.
Forestville Dam
Forestville Dam is a hydroelectric and recreational dam located on the Dead River near Marquette in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
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C.
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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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- 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: Old Melones Dam Description of subject: Old Melones Dam was an earlier dam on the Stanislaus River in California that was later submerged and rendered obsolete by the construction of New Melones Dam.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.