J. Strom Thurmond Dam
E391574
United States Army Corps of Engineers project
concrete gravity dam
flood-control dam
hydroelectric dam
J. Strom Thurmond Dam is a large hydroelectric and flood-control dam on the Savannah River that creates one of the Southeast United States’ biggest reservoirs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| J. Strom Thurmond Dam canonical | 4 |
| J. Strom Thurmond Dam (vicinity) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3586754 — 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: J. Strom Thurmond Dam Context triple: [Savannah River, hasDam, J. Strom Thurmond Dam]
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A.
Richard B. Russell Dam
Richard B. Russell Dam is a hydroelectric and flood-control structure on the Savannah River that creates Richard B. Russell Lake along the Georgia–South Carolina border.
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B.
W. Kerr Scott Dam
W. Kerr Scott Dam is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flood-control and recreation dam in North Carolina that creates W. Kerr Scott Reservoir on the Yadkin River.
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C.
Jackson Bluff Dam
Jackson Bluff Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Ochlockonee River in Florida, best known for impounding the river to form Lake Talquin.
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D.
Hartwell Dam
Hartwell Dam is a large hydroelectric and flood-control dam on the Savannah River that creates Lake Hartwell along the Georgia–South Carolina border.
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E.
Buford Dam
Buford Dam is a large hydroelectric and flood-control dam in Georgia that creates Lake Lanier and helps regulate water flow and supply for the Atlanta metropolitan area.
- 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: J. Strom Thurmond Dam Target entity description: J. Strom Thurmond Dam is a large hydroelectric and flood-control dam on the Savannah River that creates one of the Southeast United States’ biggest reservoirs.
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A.
Richard B. Russell Dam
Richard B. Russell Dam is a hydroelectric and flood-control structure on the Savannah River that creates Richard B. Russell Lake along the Georgia–South Carolina border.
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B.
W. Kerr Scott Dam
W. Kerr Scott Dam is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flood-control and recreation dam in North Carolina that creates W. Kerr Scott Reservoir on the Yadkin River.
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C.
Jackson Bluff Dam
Jackson Bluff Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Ochlockonee River in Florida, best known for impounding the river to form Lake Talquin.
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D.
Hartwell Dam
Hartwell Dam is a large hydroelectric and flood-control dam on the Savannah River that creates Lake Hartwell along the Georgia–South Carolina border.
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E.
Buford Dam
Buford Dam is a large hydroelectric and flood-control dam in Georgia that creates Lake Lanier and helps regulate water flow and supply for the Atlanta metropolitan area.
- 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: J. Strom Thurmond Dam Description of subject: J. Strom Thurmond Dam is a large hydroelectric and flood-control dam on the Savannah River that creates one of the Southeast United States’ biggest reservoirs.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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