Wheeler Dam
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Wheeler Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in northern Alabama that forms Wheeler Lake and helps provide power, navigation, and flood control in the region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wheeler Dam canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T781455 — 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: Wheeler Dam Context triple: [Tennessee River, hasDam, Wheeler Dam]
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A.
Parker Dam
Parker Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River best known for creating Lake Havasu and supplying water and hydroelectric power to parts of California and Arizona.
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B.
Red Rock Dam
Red Rock Dam is a large flood-control and hydroelectric dam on the Des Moines River in central Iowa, forming Lake Red Rock as the state’s largest reservoir.
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C.
McNary Dam
McNary Dam is a large hydroelectric dam and navigation lock complex on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
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D.
Hollywood Dam
Hollywood Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles that impounds the Hollywood Reservoir as part of the city’s water supply system.
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E.
Conklingville Dam
Conklingville Dam is a concrete gravity dam in New York that created the Great Sacandaga Lake reservoir for flood control and hydroelectric power generation.
- 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: Wheeler Dam Target entity description: Wheeler Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in northern Alabama that forms Wheeler Lake and helps provide power, navigation, and flood control in the region.
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A.
Parker Dam
Parker Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River best known for creating Lake Havasu and supplying water and hydroelectric power to parts of California and Arizona.
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B.
Red Rock Dam
Red Rock Dam is a large flood-control and hydroelectric dam on the Des Moines River in central Iowa, forming Lake Red Rock as the state’s largest reservoir.
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C.
McNary Dam
McNary Dam is a large hydroelectric dam and navigation lock complex on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
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D.
Hollywood Dam
Hollywood Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles that impounds the Hollywood Reservoir as part of the city’s water supply system.
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E.
Conklingville Dam
Conklingville Dam is a concrete gravity dam in New York that created the Great Sacandaga Lake reservoir for flood control and hydroelectric power generation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
gravity dam
ⓘ
hydroelectric dam ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createsLake | Wheeler Lake ⓘ |
| formsReservoir | Wheeler Lake ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
flood mitigation
ⓘ
navigation improvement ⓘ power generation ⓘ |
| hasNavigationLock | yes ⓘ |
| hasSpillway | yes ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Northern Alabama ⓘ
surface form:
northern Alabama
|
| locatedInState | Alabama ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Wheeler Lake ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Tennessee River ⓘ |
| operator | Tennessee Valley Authority ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Tennessee Valley Authority ⓘ |
| partOf |
Tennessee Valley Authority
ⓘ
surface form:
Tennessee Valley Authority system
|
| purpose |
flood control
ⓘ
hydroelectric power generation ⓘ navigation ⓘ recreation ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Tennessee Valley
ⓘ
Northern Alabama ⓘ
surface form:
northern Alabama
|
| riverBasin |
Tennessee Valley
ⓘ
surface form:
Tennessee River basin
|
| usedFor |
electricity supply
ⓘ
flood regulation ⓘ inland waterway navigation ⓘ |
| watercourse | Tennessee 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: Wheeler Dam Description of subject: Wheeler Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in northern Alabama that forms Wheeler Lake and helps provide power, navigation, and flood control in the region.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tennessee Valley region