Moondarra Dam
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Moondarra Dam is a major water storage and irrigation structure in Queensland, Australia, built to supply water to the nearby city of Mount Isa and its mining operations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Moondarra Dam canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4632873 — 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: Moondarra Dam Context triple: [Lake Moondarra, formedBy, Moondarra Dam]
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A.
Talbingo Dam
Talbingo Dam is a major rockfill embankment dam in New South Wales, Australia, forming part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme and creating Talbingo Reservoir for hydroelectric power generation and water storage.
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B.
Eucumbene Dam
Eucumbene Dam is a major rock-fill embankment dam in New South Wales, Australia, forming part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme and impounding Lake Eucumbene for hydroelectric power generation and water storage.
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C.
Burrinjuck Dam
Burrinjuck Dam is a major concrete gravity dam in New South Wales, Australia, built on the Murrumbidgee River for irrigation, hydroelectric power generation, and flood mitigation.
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D.
O’Sullivan Dam
O’Sullivan Dam is a major earth-fill dam in central Washington State that forms Potholes Reservoir and plays a key role in irrigation and water management for the Columbia Basin Project.
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E.
Hume Dam
Hume Dam is a major concrete gravity dam in southeastern Australia that forms Lake Hume and plays a key role in water storage, irrigation, and flood control in the Murray–Darling Basin.
- 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: Moondarra Dam Target entity description: Moondarra Dam is a major water storage and irrigation structure in Queensland, Australia, built to supply water to the nearby city of Mount Isa and its mining operations.
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A.
Talbingo Dam
Talbingo Dam is a major rockfill embankment dam in New South Wales, Australia, forming part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme and creating Talbingo Reservoir for hydroelectric power generation and water storage.
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B.
Eucumbene Dam
Eucumbene Dam is a major rock-fill embankment dam in New South Wales, Australia, forming part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme and impounding Lake Eucumbene for hydroelectric power generation and water storage.
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C.
Burrinjuck Dam
Burrinjuck Dam is a major concrete gravity dam in New South Wales, Australia, built on the Murrumbidgee River for irrigation, hydroelectric power generation, and flood mitigation.
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D.
O’Sullivan Dam
O’Sullivan Dam is a major earth-fill dam in central Washington State that forms Potholes Reservoir and plays a key role in irrigation and water management for the Columbia Basin Project.
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E.
Hume Dam
Hume Dam is a major concrete gravity dam in southeastern Australia that forms Lake Hume and plays a key role in water storage, irrigation, and flood control in the Murray–Darling Basin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dam
ⓘ
reservoir ⓘ |
| catchmentArea | about 1,500 square kilometres ⓘ |
| constructionCost | about 1.7 million pounds ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1956 ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| damType | concrete-faced rockfill dam ⓘ |
| distanceFrom | about 17 kilometres north-east of Mount Isa ⓘ |
| elevation | about 380 metres above sea level ⓘ |
| hasAccessRoad | Lake Moondarra Road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFishSpecies |
arowana (saratoga)
ⓘ
barramundi ⓘ sleepy cod ⓘ sooty grunter ⓘ |
| hasNearbyCity | Mount Isa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRecreationArea | Lake Moondarra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpillway | yes ⓘ |
| hostsEvent | Lake Moondarra Fishing Classic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Mount Isa water supply scheme NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Queensland ⓘ |
| locatedInLocalGovernmentArea | City of Mount Isa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | North West Queensland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Mount Isa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| managingAuthorityType | statutory authority ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Moondarra pastoral station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1958 ⓘ |
| operator | Mount Isa Water Board NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | Mount Isa Water Board NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose |
industrial water supply
ⓘ
irrigation ⓘ mining water supply ⓘ urban water supply ⓘ |
| region | Outback Queensland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionClimate | semi-arid ⓘ |
| spillwayType | uncontrolled concrete spillway ⓘ |
| storageCapacity | about 107,000 megalitres ⓘ |
| suppliesSector |
copper mining
ⓘ
lead mining ⓘ zinc mining ⓘ |
| suppliesWaterTo |
Mount Isa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mount Isa Mines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| surfaceArea | about 2,300 hectares ⓘ |
| usedFor |
boating
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fishing ⓘ recreation ⓘ water sports ⓘ |
| watercourseDammed | Leichhardt River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Moondarra Dam Description of subject: Moondarra Dam is a major water storage and irrigation structure in Queensland, Australia, built to supply water to the nearby city of Mount Isa and its mining operations.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.