Lister Dam
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Lister Dam is a historic British dam notable for its role as one of the targets associated with the World War II Dambusters Raid.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lister Dam canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9525755 — 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: Lister Dam Context triple: [Dambusters Raid sites, hasPart, Lister Dam]
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A.
Belver Dam
Belver Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tagus River in Portugal, used primarily for power generation and river flow regulation.
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B.
Merwin Dam
Merwin Dam is a hydroelectric dam on Washington State’s Lewis River that forms Lake Merwin and generates power for the region.
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C.
Tieton Dam
Tieton Dam is a concrete multiple-arch dam in central Washington State that provides irrigation water storage, flood control, and hydroelectric power as part of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Yakima River basin developments.
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D.
Milner Dam
Milner Dam is an early 20th-century irrigation and hydroelectric dam on the Snake River in southern Idaho that helps divert water for agriculture and power generation.
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E.
Denison Dam
Denison Dam is a large earthen dam on the Red River between Texas and Oklahoma, built for flood control, hydroelectric power generation, and water supply.
- 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: Lister Dam Target entity description: Lister Dam is a historic British dam notable for its role as one of the targets associated with the World War II Dambusters Raid.
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A.
Belver Dam
Belver Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tagus River in Portugal, used primarily for power generation and river flow regulation.
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B.
Merwin Dam
Merwin Dam is a hydroelectric dam on Washington State’s Lewis River that forms Lake Merwin and generates power for the region.
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C.
Tieton Dam
Tieton Dam is a concrete multiple-arch dam in central Washington State that provides irrigation water storage, flood control, and hydroelectric power as part of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Yakima River basin developments.
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D.
Milner Dam
Milner Dam is an early 20th-century irrigation and hydroelectric dam on the Snake River in southern Idaho that helps divert water for agriculture and power generation.
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E.
Denison Dam
Denison Dam is a large earthen dam on the Red River between Texas and Oklahoma, built for flood control, hydroelectric power generation, and water supply.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | dam ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Dambusters Raid
ⓘ
linked to:
Dambusters
No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Operation Chastise ⓘ |
| category |
Dams in the United Kingdom
ⓘ
Hydraulic engineering works in the United Kingdom ⓘ Military history of the United Kingdom ⓘ World War II sites in the United Kingdom ⓘ
linked to:
World War II sites
|
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| hasFunction | hydraulic engineering structure ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | historic structure ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English (toponym language) ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| material |
concrete (typical for 20th-century dams)
ⓘ
masonry (typical for historic British dams) ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Lister (local toponym or feature) ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with World War II Dambusters Raid
ⓘ
military history significance ⓘ |
| partOf | British dam infrastructure ⓘ |
| usedFor |
reservoir impoundment
ⓘ
water management ⓘ |
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: Lister Dam Description of subject: Lister Dam is a historic British dam notable for its role as one of the targets associated with the World War II Dambusters Raid.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.