Möhne Dam

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Möhne Dam is a major German gravity dam in North Rhine-Westphalia, historically known for being breached by the RAF’s “Dambusters” raid during World War II.

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dam
gravity dam
alsoKnownAs Möhne Dam
surface form: Möhnetalsperre
architecturalStyle masonry gravity dam
attackDate 17 May 1943
attackedBy Royal Air Force
attackedWith bouncing bombs
basinCountry Germany
casualtiesAssociatedWithEvent over 1,000 people killed in 1943 flood
constructionStartDate 1908
country Germany
damage breach of central section in 1943 raid
designedBy Otto Intze
hasPowerPlant Möhne Dam self-linksurface differs
surface form: Möhne hydropower plant
hasSpillway overflow spillway
height approximately 40 m
heritageStatus industrial heritage site
impounds Möhne Dam self-linksurface differs
surface form: Möhne Reservoir
length approximately 650 m
locatedIn North Rhine-Westphalia
locatedInProtectedArea Arnsberg Forest Nature Park
locatedNear Arnsberg
Soest
locatedOn Möhne River
material concrete
rubble masonry
nearCity Körbecke
Möhnesee
notableEvent breached in Operation Chastise
openingDate 1913
operator Ruhrverband
partOf Dambusters Raid sites
Ruhr river water management system
purpose flood control
hydroelectric power generation
low-flow regulation
water supply
reconstructionCompletionDate 1944
reconstructionStartDate 1943
region Sauerland
reservoirCapacity approximately 135 million cubic metres
reservoirSurfaceArea approximately 10.4 square kilometres
touristAttraction yes
usedFor fishing
recreation
sailing
water sports

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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
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- 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: Möhne Dam
Description of subject: Möhne Dam is a major German gravity dam in North Rhine-Westphalia, historically known for being breached by the RAF’s “Dambusters” raid during World War II.

Referenced by (26)

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

Operation Chastise target Möhne Dam
Möhne Dam impounds Möhne Dam self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Möhne Reservoir
Möhne Dam alsoKnownAs Möhne Dam
this entity surface form: Möhnetalsperre
Möhne Dam hasPowerPlant Möhne Dam self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Möhne hydropower plant
No. 617 Squadron RAF targeted Möhne Dam
Ruhr hasReservoir Möhne Dam
this entity surface form: Möhne Reservoir
Ruhrverband manages Möhne Dam
this entity surface form: Möhne Reservoir
Dambusters Raid sites hasPart Möhne Dam
Körbecke locatedOn Möhne Dam
this entity surface form: Möhne Reservoir
Körbecke locatedNear Möhne Dam
Upkeep primaryTarget Möhne Dam
Dambuster bomb target Möhne Dam
bouncing bomb notableTarget Möhne Dam
Dams Raid 1943 target Möhne Dam
Ruhr reservoir system hasPart Möhne Dam
this entity surface form: Möhne Reservoir
Ruhr reservoir system hasPart Möhne Dam
Möhnesee knownFor Möhne Dam
Möhnesee hasStructure Möhne Dam
617 Squadron targeted Möhne Dam
Möhne River hasDam Möhne Dam
Möhne River hasReservoir Möhne Dam
this entity surface form: Möhne Reservoir
Möhne River hasInfrastructure Möhne Dam
this entity surface form: Möhne Dam hydroelectric power plant
Möhne River hasStructure Möhne Dam
this entity surface form: Möhne Dam spillway
Möhne River isRegulatedBy Möhne Dam