Sumner Dam
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Sumner Dam is a reservoir and flood-control structure on the Pecos River in New Mexico, used primarily for irrigation, water storage, and recreation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sumner Dam canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8837380 — 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: Sumner Dam Context triple: [Pecos River, hasDam, Sumner Dam]
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A.
Waddell Dam
Waddell Dam is a major dam in Arizona that impounds the Agua Fria River to form Lake Pleasant, a key water storage and recreation reservoir for the Phoenix metropolitan area.
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B.
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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C.
Morris Sheppard Dam
Morris Sheppard Dam is a large hydroelectric and flood-control structure in Texas that impounds the Brazos River to form Possum Kingdom Lake.
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D.
LaBarge Dam
LaBarge Dam is a small hydroengineering structure located on the Thornapple River in Michigan, used primarily for water level control and local recreation.
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E.
Sherman Dam
Sherman Dam is a hydroelectric and flood-control structure located on the Deerfield River in the northeastern United States.
- 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: Sumner Dam Target entity description: Sumner Dam is a reservoir and flood-control structure on the Pecos River in New Mexico, used primarily for irrigation, water storage, and recreation.
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A.
Waddell Dam
Waddell Dam is a major dam in Arizona that impounds the Agua Fria River to form Lake Pleasant, a key water storage and recreation reservoir for the Phoenix metropolitan area.
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B.
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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C.
Morris Sheppard Dam
Morris Sheppard Dam is a large hydroelectric and flood-control structure in Texas that impounds the Brazos River to form Possum Kingdom Lake.
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D.
LaBarge Dam
LaBarge Dam is a small hydroengineering structure located on the Thornapple River in Michigan, used primarily for water level control and local recreation.
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E.
Sherman Dam
Sherman Dam is a hydroelectric and flood-control structure located on the Deerfield River in the northeastern United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dam
ⓘ
reservoir ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasFunction |
regulation of Pecos River flows
ⓘ
storage of irrigation water for downstream users ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
agricultural water supply
ⓘ
flood mitigation ⓘ recreational activities ⓘ |
| hasReservoir | Sumner Lake ⓘ |
| isPartOf | federal water projects in the Pecos River Basin ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
De Baca County, New Mexico
ⓘ
New Mexico ⓘ eastern New Mexico ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Fort Sumner, New Mexico
ⓘ
linked to:
Fort Sumner
|
| locatedOnRiver | Pecos River ⓘ |
| managingAgency |
United States Bureau of Reclamation
ⓘ
linked to:
Bureau of Reclamation
|
| operator |
United States Bureau of Reclamation
ⓘ
linked to:
Bureau of Reclamation
|
| partOf |
Pecos River Basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Pecos River basin
|
| primaryUse | irrigation ⓘ |
| recreationArea | Sumner Lake State Park ⓘ |
| region |
American Southwest
ⓘ
linked to:
southwestern United States
|
| supportsActivity |
boating
ⓘ
camping ⓘ fishing ⓘ swimming ⓘ |
| use |
flood control
ⓘ
recreation ⓘ water storage ⓘ |
| watercourse | Pecos River ⓘ |
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: Sumner Dam Description of subject: Sumner Dam is a reservoir and flood-control structure on the Pecos River in New Mexico, used primarily for irrigation, water storage, and recreation.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.