Silver Lake Dam
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Silver Lake Dam is a hydroelectric and flood-control structure on Michigan’s Dead River that helps regulate water flow and levels in the surrounding region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Silver Lake Dam canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1913273 — 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: Silver Lake Dam Context triple: [Dead River (Michigan), hasDam, Silver Lake Dam]
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A.
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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B.
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.
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C.
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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D.
Forestville Dam
Forestville Dam is a hydroelectric and recreational dam located on the Dead River near Marquette in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
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E.
O'Shaughnessy Dam
O'Shaughnessy Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in Yosemite National Park that creates the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, supplying water and hydroelectric power to the San Francisco Bay Area.
- 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: Silver Lake Dam Target entity description: Silver Lake Dam is a hydroelectric and flood-control structure on Michigan’s Dead River that helps regulate water flow and levels in the surrounding region.
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A.
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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B.
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.
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C.
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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D.
Forestville Dam
Forestville Dam is a hydroelectric and recreational dam located on the Dead River near Marquette in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
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E.
O'Shaughnessy Dam
O'Shaughnessy Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in Yosemite National Park that creates the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, supplying water and hydroelectric power to the San Francisco Bay Area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dam
ⓘ
flood control structure ⓘ hydroelectric dam ⓘ |
| affectsWaterBody | Dead River ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| controlsWaterBody |
Silver Lake Reservoir
ⓘ
surface form:
Silver Lake (reservoir)
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasFunction |
water flow regulation
ⓘ
water level regulation ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryFunction | hydroelectric power generation ⓘ |
| hasSecondaryFunction | flood control ⓘ |
| isInfrastructureType | hydraulic engineering structure ⓘ |
| isUsedFor |
electricity production
ⓘ
flood mitigation ⓘ river flow management ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Michigan ⓘ |
| locatedInContinent | North America ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedInRegion | Upper Peninsula of Michigan ⓘ |
| locatedInState | Michigan ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterway | Dead River ⓘ |
| partOf | Dead River watershed ⓘ |
| purpose |
regulate water flow in the surrounding region
ⓘ
regulate water levels in the surrounding region ⓘ |
| watercourse | Dead 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: Silver Lake Dam Description of subject: Silver Lake Dam is a hydroelectric and flood-control structure on Michigan’s Dead River that helps regulate water flow and levels in the surrounding region.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.