Glennies Creek Dam
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Glennies Creek Dam is a major water storage and flood mitigation dam on Glennies Creek in New South Wales, Australia, supporting irrigation, town water supply, and environmental flows.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Glennies Creek Dam canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4084214 — 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: Glennies Creek Dam Context triple: [Glennies Creek, hasWaterStorage, Glennies Creek Dam]
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A.
O’Sullivan Dam
O’Sullivan Dam is a major earth-fill dam in central Washington State that forms Potholes Reservoir and plays a key role in irrigation and water management for the Columbia Basin Project.
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B.
Brownlee Dam
Brownlee Dam is a major hydroelectric dam on the Snake River in the western United States, forming Brownlee Reservoir and playing a key role in regional power generation and water management.
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C.
Hume Dam
Hume Dam is a major concrete gravity dam in southeastern Australia that forms Lake Hume and plays a key role in water storage, irrigation, and flood control in the Murray–Darling Basin.
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D.
Tulloch Dam
Tulloch Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Stanislaus River in California that forms Tulloch Reservoir for irrigation, hydroelectric power generation, and recreation.
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E.
Cluny Dam
Cluny Dam is a hydroelectric dam on Tasmania’s Derwent River that forms part of the state’s power generation and water management 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: Glennies Creek Dam Target entity description: Glennies Creek Dam is a major water storage and flood mitigation dam on Glennies Creek in New South Wales, Australia, supporting irrigation, town water supply, and environmental flows.
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A.
O’Sullivan Dam
O’Sullivan Dam is a major earth-fill dam in central Washington State that forms Potholes Reservoir and plays a key role in irrigation and water management for the Columbia Basin Project.
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B.
Brownlee Dam
Brownlee Dam is a major hydroelectric dam on the Snake River in the western United States, forming Brownlee Reservoir and playing a key role in regional power generation and water management.
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C.
Hume Dam
Hume Dam is a major concrete gravity dam in southeastern Australia that forms Lake Hume and plays a key role in water storage, irrigation, and flood control in the Murray–Darling Basin.
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D.
Tulloch Dam
Tulloch Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Stanislaus River in California that forms Tulloch Reservoir for irrigation, hydroelectric power generation, and recreation.
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E.
Cluny Dam
Cluny Dam is a hydroelectric dam on Tasmania’s Derwent River that forms part of the state’s power generation and water management system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dam
ⓘ
gravity dam ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Australia ⓘ |
| constructionBegan | 1980 ⓘ |
| constructionMaterial | concrete ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| damType | concrete gravity dam ⓘ |
| formsReservoir | Lake St Clair ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
drought security
ⓘ
flow regulation ⓘ |
| hasSpillway | yes ⓘ |
| impounds | Glennies Creek ⓘ |
| isPartOf | New South Wales water infrastructure network ⓘ |
| locatedIn | New South Wales ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Hunter Region ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Singleton, New South Wales ⓘ |
| locatedOnWatercourse | Glennies Creek ⓘ |
| managesFloodRiskFor |
downstream areas on Glennies Creek
ⓘ
parts of the Hunter River system ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1983 ⓘ |
| operator | WaterNSW ⓘ |
| owner |
New South Wales Government
ⓘ
linked to:
Government of New South Wales
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| partOfWaterManagementScheme | Hunter River catchment ⓘ |
| purpose |
environmental flows support
ⓘ
flood mitigation ⓘ irrigation supply ⓘ town water supply ⓘ water storage ⓘ |
| reservoirName | Lake St Clair ⓘ |
| spillwayType | uncontrolled overflow spillway ⓘ |
| supportsTownWaterSupplyFor | communities in the Hunter Region ⓘ |
| waterUse |
agricultural irrigation
ⓘ
environmental releases ⓘ urban water supply ⓘ |
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: Glennies Creek Dam Description of subject: Glennies Creek Dam is a major water storage and flood mitigation dam on Glennies Creek in New South Wales, Australia, supporting irrigation, town water supply, and environmental flows.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.