Gilboa Dam
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Gilboa Dam is a large earthen embankment dam in Schoharie County, New York, that impounds the Schoharie Creek to form part of New York City's upstate water supply system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gilboa Dam canonical | 4 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
earthen embankment dam
ⓘ
gravity dam ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| completed | 1927 ⓘ |
| constructionBegan | 1919 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createsReservoir | Schoharie Reservoir ⓘ |
| crosses | Schoharie Creek ⓘ |
| designedFor |
flow regulation
ⓘ
water storage ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
impounds water for New York City
ⓘ
regulates Schoharie Creek flows ⓘ |
| hasSpillway | concrete spillway ⓘ |
| hasType |
earthen dam
ⓘ
embankment dam ⓘ |
| height | about 182 feet ⓘ |
| impounds | Schoharie Creek ⓘ |
| length | about 1,326 feet ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Catskill Mountains
ⓘ
surface form:
Catskill Mountains region
New York State ⓘ Northeastern United States ⓘ Schoharie County, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Town of Gilboa ⓘ |
| locatedInWatershed |
Hudson River watershed
ⓘ
Schoharie Creek ⓘ
surface form:
Schoharie Creek watershed
|
| locatedOnWatercourse | Schoharie Creek ⓘ |
| material |
earthfill
ⓘ
rockfill ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Gilboa, New York ⓘ |
| nearCity |
Gilboa, New York
ⓘ
Prattsville ⓘ
surface form:
Prattsville, New York
|
| opened | 1927 ⓘ |
| operator | New York City Department of Environmental Protection ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
New York City
ⓘ
surface form:
City of New York
|
| owner | New York City Department of Environmental Protection ⓘ |
| partOf |
New York City Department of Environmental Protection water supply infrastructure
ⓘ
New York City water supply system ⓘ
surface form:
New York City upstate water supply system
New York City water supply system ⓘ |
| partOfSystem |
Catskill–Delaware water supply system
ⓘ
surface form:
New York City Catskill water system
New York City water tunnels ⓘ
surface form:
New York City water tunnel and reservoir network
|
| purpose |
flood control
ⓘ
municipal water supply ⓘ |
| region |
Upstate New York (broad sense)
ⓘ
surface form:
Upstate New York
|
| reservoirCapacity | about 17.6 billion US gallons ⓘ |
| reservoirName | Schoharie Reservoir ⓘ |
| waterConveyedBy | Shandaken Tunnel ⓘ |
| waterConveyedTo | Ashokan Reservoir ⓘ |
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: Gilboa Dam Description of subject: Gilboa Dam is a large earthen embankment dam in Schoharie County, New York, that impounds the Schoharie Creek to form part of New York City's upstate water supply system.
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