Playford B Power Station
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Playford B Power Station was a coal-fired power station in South Australia that supplied electricity to the state’s grid before its closure and subsequent demolition.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Playford B Power Station canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12864326 — 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: Playford B Power Station Context triple: [Port Augusta, formerCoalPowerStationLocation, Playford B Power Station]
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A.
Bayswater Power Station
Bayswater Power Station is a large coal-fired power station in New South Wales, Australia, and one of the major electricity generators in the country.
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B.
Blowering Power Station
Blowering Power Station is a hydroelectric power facility in New South Wales, Australia, that forms part of the Snowy Mountains region’s renewable energy infrastructure.
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C.
Arapuni Power Station
Arapuni Power Station is a major hydroelectric power facility in New Zealand, located on the Waikato River and known for its large concrete arch dam and contribution to the national grid.
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D.
Burrinjuck Power Station
Burrinjuck Power Station is a hydroelectric power facility in New South Wales, Australia, that generates electricity using water from Burrinjuck Dam on the Murrumbidgee River.
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E.
Maraetai Power Station
Maraetai Power Station is a major hydroelectric power station on New Zealand’s Waikato River that forms part of the country’s largest river-based generation 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: Playford B Power Station Target entity description: Playford B Power Station was a coal-fired power station in South Australia that supplied electricity to the state’s grid before its closure and subsequent demolition.
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A.
Bayswater Power Station
Bayswater Power Station is a large coal-fired power station in New South Wales, Australia, and one of the major electricity generators in the country.
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B.
Blowering Power Station
Blowering Power Station is a hydroelectric power facility in New South Wales, Australia, that forms part of the Snowy Mountains region’s renewable energy infrastructure.
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C.
Arapuni Power Station
Arapuni Power Station is a major hydroelectric power facility in New Zealand, located on the Waikato River and known for its large concrete arch dam and contribution to the national grid.
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D.
Burrinjuck Power Station
Burrinjuck Power Station is a hydroelectric power facility in New South Wales, Australia, that generates electricity using water from Burrinjuck Dam on the Murrumbidgee River.
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E.
Maraetai Power Station
Maraetai Power Station is a major hydroelectric power station on New Zealand’s Waikato River that forms part of the country’s largest river-based generation system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coal-fired power station
ⓘ
thermal power station ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Northern Power Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1963 ⓘ |
| commissionedInYear | 1963 ⓘ |
| connectedTo | South Australian electricity grid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 1958 ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| decommissioned | 2016 ⓘ |
| demolitionCompleted | 2018 ⓘ |
| electricalCapacity | 240 MW ⓘ |
| energySource | coal ⓘ |
| environmentalImpact |
air pollution
ⓘ
greenhouse gas emissions ⓘ |
| fuelSupplyFrom | Leigh Creek coalfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fuelType | sub-bituminous coal ⓘ |
| generationUnitsType | steam turbine ⓘ |
| gridConnection | National Electricity Market NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gridOperator | ElectraNet (transmission) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gridRole | baseload generation ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLatitude | -32.51 ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLongitude | 137.77 ⓘ |
| laterGridRole | intermittent operation ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Port Augusta, South Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | South Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Port Augusta Power Station
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spencer Gulf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Thomas Playford IV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfUnits | 4 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Alinta Energy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Alinta Energy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Port Augusta power generation complex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| permanentlyClosed | 2016 ⓘ |
| previouslyOwnedBy |
Electricity Trust of South Australia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Flinders Power NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryCoolingMethod | air-cooled condensers GENERATED ⓘ |
| regionServed | South Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shutdownReason |
ageing infrastructure
ⓘ
competition from renewable energy ⓘ economic unviability ⓘ |
| status | demolished ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Port Augusta coal closure debate ⓘ |
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: Playford B Power Station Description of subject: Playford B Power Station was a coal-fired power station in South Australia that supplied electricity to the state’s grid before its closure and subsequent demolition.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.