Grevelingendam

E20274

Delta Works structure dam

Grevelingendam is a major dam in the southwestern Netherlands that forms part of the Delta Works, protecting the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta from flooding while separating the Grevelingenmeer from the North Sea.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Grevelingendam canonical	14
Grevelingen Dam	1

Statements (30)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Delta Works structure ⓘ dam ⓘ
connects	Goeree-Overflakkee ⓘ Schouwen-Duiveland ⓘ
country	Netherlands ⓘ
crosses	Eastern Scheldt ⓘ surface form: Grevelingen estuary
hasFunction	coastal defense ⓘ hydraulic engineering structure ⓘ
hasNearbySettlement	Brouwershaven ⓘ Bruinisse ⓘ Ouddorp ⓘ
hasPart	N59 road ⓘ
locatedIn	South Holland ⓘ Southwestern Netherlands ⓘ Zeeland ⓘ
locatedInBodyOfWater	Grevelingen ⓘ
maintainedBy	Rijkswaterstaat ⓘ
openedForTraffic	20th century ⓘ
partOf	Delta Works ⓘ Delta Works ⓘ surface form: Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta defenses
partOfProject	Delta Works ⓘ surface form: Dutch Delta Plan
protects	Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta ⓘ
protectsFrom	flooding ⓘ
separates	Grevelingenmeer ⓘ North Sea ⓘ
usedFor	road transport ⓘ storm surge protection ⓘ
waterBodyCreated	Grevelingenmeer ⓘ
waterBodyTypeSeparated	North Sea arm ⓘ saltwater lake ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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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: Grevelingendam
Description of subject: Grevelingendam is a major dam in the southwestern Netherlands that forms part of the Delta Works, protecting the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta from flooding while separating the Grevelingenmeer from the North Sea.

Referenced by (15)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta → hasFloodProtectionStructure → Grevelingendam ⓘ

Grevelingen → separatedFromSeaBy → Grevelingendam ⓘ

Grevelingen → hasInfrastructure → Grevelingendam ⓘ

Delta Works → hasPart → Grevelingendam ⓘ

Volkerakdam → locatedNear → Grevelingendam ⓘ

Goeree-Overflakkee → hasDike → Grevelingendam ⓘ

North Sea via Brouwerssluis → relatedInfrastructure → Grevelingendam ⓘ

N57 → passesOver → Grevelingendam ⓘ

Schouwen-Duiveland → connectedBy → Grevelingendam ⓘ

this entity surface form: Grevelingen Dam

Bruinisse → locatedNear → Grevelingendam ⓘ

Sint Philipsland → nearWaterInfrastructure → Grevelingendam ⓘ

Grevelingenmeer → separatedBy → Grevelingendam ⓘ

Grevelingenmeer → near → Grevelingendam ⓘ

Herkingen → locatedSouthOf → Grevelingendam ⓘ

Southwestern Netherlands → contains → Grevelingendam ⓘ