Los Banos Creek Detention Dam
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Los Banos Creek Detention Dam is a flood-control and water-storage structure in California that forms part of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s San Luis Unit within the Central Valley Project.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Los Banos Creek Detention Dam canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3509465 — 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: Los Banos Creek Detention Dam Context triple: [San Luis Unit, hasPart, Los Banos Creek Detention Dam]
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A.
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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B.
Castaic Dam
Castaic Dam is a large embankment dam in Los Angeles County, California, that forms Castaic Lake and plays a key role in water storage and hydroelectric power generation for Southern California.
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C.
Gillespie Dam
Gillespie Dam is an early 20th-century concrete gravity dam on Arizona’s Gila River, historically used for irrigation and now noted as a local landmark and wildlife habitat area.
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D.
La Mesa Dam
La Mesa Dam is a major water reservoir in Quezon City, Philippines, that supplies a significant portion of Metro Manila’s drinking water.
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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
- 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: Los Banos Creek Detention Dam Target entity description: Los Banos Creek Detention Dam is a flood-control and water-storage structure in California that forms part of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s San Luis Unit within the Central Valley Project.
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A.
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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B.
Castaic Dam
Castaic Dam is a large embankment dam in Los Angeles County, California, that forms Castaic Lake and plays a key role in water storage and hydroelectric power generation for Southern California.
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C.
Gillespie Dam
Gillespie Dam is an early 20th-century concrete gravity dam on Arizona’s Gila River, historically used for irrigation and now noted as a local landmark and wildlife habitat area.
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D.
La Mesa Dam
La Mesa Dam is a major water reservoir in Quezon City, Philippines, that supplies a significant portion of Metro Manila’s drinking water.
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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 (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dam
ⓘ
flood control structure ⓘ water storage facility ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| catchmentArea |
100 square miles
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259 square kilometres ⓘ |
| constructionBegan | 1964 ⓘ |
| constructionCompleted | 1965 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| damType | earthfill dam ⓘ |
| elevationAtCrest |
176.5 metres
ⓘ
579 feet ⓘ |
| floodControlFor | Los Banos Creek watershed ⓘ |
| hasReservoir |
Los Banos Creek Detention Reservoir
ⓘ
linked to:
Los Banos Creek Reservoir
|
| hasSpillway | uncontrolled overflow spillway ⓘ |
| height |
120 feet
ⓘ
36.6 metres ⓘ |
| impounds |
Los Banos Creek Detention Reservoir
ⓘ
linked to:
Los Banos Creek Reservoir
|
| length |
3,230 feet
ⓘ
985 metres ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Merced County, California ⓘ
linked to:
Merced County
|
| locatedInProtectedArea | Los Banos Creek State Recreation Area ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Los Banos, California ⓘ |
| locatedOnWatercourse |
Los Banos Creek
ⓘ
linked to:
Los Baños Creek
|
| managedBy |
United States Bureau of Reclamation
ⓘ
linked to:
Bureau of Reclamation
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| mapLocation | 37.058°N 121.007°W ⓘ |
| opened | 1965 ⓘ |
| operator |
United States Bureau of Reclamation
ⓘ
linked to:
Bureau of Reclamation
|
| owner |
United States Bureau of Reclamation
ⓘ
linked to:
Bureau of Reclamation
|
| partOf |
Central Valley Project
ⓘ
San Luis Unit ⓘ |
| project | Central Valley Project ⓘ |
| purpose |
flood control
ⓘ
water storage ⓘ |
| region | San Joaquin Valley ⓘ |
| reservoirCapacity |
34,600 acre-feet
ⓘ
42,700,000 cubic metres ⓘ |
| watercourse |
Los Banos Creek
ⓘ
linked to:
Los Baños Creek
|
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Subject: Los Banos Creek Detention Dam Description of subject: Los Banos Creek Detention Dam is a flood-control and water-storage structure in California that forms part of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s San Luis Unit within the Central Valley Project.
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