Davis Dam
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Davis Dam is a concrete gravity-arch dam on the Colorado River between Nevada and Arizona that forms Lake Mohave and helps regulate water releases from Hoover Dam.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Davis Dam canonical | 16 |
| Davis Dam powerplant | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T488805 — 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: Davis Dam Context triple: [Lake Mead National Recreation Area, containsStructure, Davis Dam]
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A.
Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam is a massive concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River, renowned as a landmark feat of 20th-century American engineering and a major source of hydroelectric power and water management in the Southwest.
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B.
Grand Coulee Dam
Grand Coulee Dam is a massive concrete gravity dam on the Columbia River in Washington State, renowned as one of the largest power-producing facilities in the United States and a landmark of New Deal–era infrastructure.
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C.
Folsom Dam
Folsom Dam is a large concrete dam on the American River in California that provides flood control, water storage, and hydroelectric power for the Sacramento region.
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D.
Shasta Dam
Shasta Dam is a large concrete gravity dam on California’s Sacramento River, forming Shasta Lake and serving as a key source of water storage, hydroelectric power, and flood control for the state.
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E.
Trinity Dam
Trinity Dam is a major earthfill dam on the Trinity River in Northern California, forming Trinity Lake and providing water storage, hydroelectric power, and flood control as part of the state’s large federal 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: Davis Dam Target entity description: Davis Dam is a concrete gravity-arch dam on the Colorado River between Nevada and Arizona that forms Lake Mohave and helps regulate water releases from Hoover Dam.
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A.
Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam is a massive concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River, renowned as a landmark feat of 20th-century American engineering and a major source of hydroelectric power and water management in the Southwest.
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B.
Grand Coulee Dam
Grand Coulee Dam is a massive concrete gravity dam on the Columbia River in Washington State, renowned as one of the largest power-producing facilities in the United States and a landmark of New Deal–era infrastructure.
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C.
Folsom Dam
Folsom Dam is a large concrete dam on the American River in California that provides flood control, water storage, and hydroelectric power for the Sacramento region.
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D.
Shasta Dam
Shasta Dam is a large concrete gravity dam on California’s Sacramento River, forming Shasta Lake and serving as a key source of water storage, hydroelectric power, and flood control for the state.
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E.
Trinity Dam
Trinity Dam is a major earthfill dam on the Trinity River in Northern California, forming Trinity Lake and providing water storage, hydroelectric power, and flood control as part of the state’s large federal water management system.
- 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: Davis Dam Description of subject: Davis Dam is a concrete gravity-arch dam on the Colorado River between Nevada and Arizona that forms Lake Mohave and helps regulate water releases from Hoover Dam.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Davis Dam