Conklingville Dam
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Conklingville Dam is a concrete gravity dam in New York that created the Great Sacandaga Lake reservoir for flood control and hydroelectric power generation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Conklingville Dam canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T257727 — 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: Conklingville Dam Context triple: [Sacandaga River, regulatedBy, Conklingville Dam]
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A.
Croton Falls Dam
Croton Falls Dam is a masonry gravity dam in Westchester County, New York, that forms the Croton Falls Reservoir as part of New York City’s water supply system.
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B.
Great Stone Dam
The Great Stone Dam is a historic 19th-century granite dam in Lawrence, Massachusetts, built to harness the Merrimack River for industrial waterpower and central to the city’s mill-era development.
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C.
Muscoot Reservoir
Muscoot Reservoir is a man-made lake in Westchester County, New York, that serves as a key component of New York City’s Croton water supply system.
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D.
Jurala Dam
Jurala Dam is a major irrigation and hydroelectric project built across the Krishna River in Telangana, India.
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E.
Croton Falls Reservoir
Croton Falls Reservoir is a man-made lake in Westchester County, New York, that serves as part of New York City's Croton water supply 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: Conklingville Dam Target entity description: Conklingville Dam is a concrete gravity dam in New York that created the Great Sacandaga Lake reservoir for flood control and hydroelectric power generation.
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A.
Croton Falls Dam
Croton Falls Dam is a masonry gravity dam in Westchester County, New York, that forms the Croton Falls Reservoir as part of New York City’s water supply system.
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B.
Great Stone Dam
The Great Stone Dam is a historic 19th-century granite dam in Lawrence, Massachusetts, built to harness the Merrimack River for industrial waterpower and central to the city’s mill-era development.
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C.
Muscoot Reservoir
Muscoot Reservoir is a man-made lake in Westchester County, New York, that serves as a key component of New York City’s Croton water supply system.
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D.
Jurala Dam
Jurala Dam is a major irrigation and hydroelectric project built across the Krishna River in Telangana, India.
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E.
Croton Falls Reservoir
Croton Falls Reservoir is a man-made lake in Westchester County, New York, that serves as part of New York City's Croton water supply system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
concrete gravity dam
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dam ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| createsReservoir | Great Sacandaga Lake ⓘ |
| crosses | Sacandaga River ⓘ |
| function |
reduction of downstream flooding
ⓘ
regulation of Hudson River flows ⓘ support of hydroelectric generation downstream ⓘ |
| impounds | Sacandaga River ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New York
ⓘ
Saratoga County ⓘ
surface form:
Saratoga County, New York
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| material | concrete ⓘ |
| operator | Hudson River–Black River Regulating District ⓘ |
| owner | Hudson River–Black River Regulating District ⓘ |
| purpose |
flood control
ⓘ
hydroelectric power generation ⓘ |
| reservoirName | Great Sacandaga Lake ⓘ |
| riverBasin |
Hudson River watershed
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surface form:
Hudson River basin
|
| state | New York ⓘ |
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: Conklingville Dam Description of subject: Conklingville Dam is a concrete gravity dam in New York that created the Great Sacandaga Lake reservoir for flood control and hydroelectric power generation.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.