Aviemore Dam
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Aviemore Dam is a major hydroelectric dam in New Zealand’s South Island, forming Lake Aviemore as part of the Waitaki River power scheme.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Aviemore Dam canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6201927 — 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: Aviemore Dam Context triple: [Waitaki River, hasDam, Aviemore Dam]
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A.
Pitlochry Dam
Pitlochry Dam is a mid-20th-century hydroelectric dam on the River Tummel in Scotland, noted for its power station and popular salmon ladder attraction.
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B.
Bleiloch Dam
Bleiloch Dam is a large hydroelectric and flood-control dam in Thuringia, Germany, forming the country’s biggest reservoir on the upper Saale River.
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C.
Keenleyside Dam
Keenleyside Dam is a major hydroelectric and flood-control dam on the Columbia River in British Columbia, Canada, forming part of the region’s large transboundary water management system.
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D.
Feildes Weir
Feildes Weir is a historic river weir on the River Lea in England, used to control water levels and flow for navigation and water management.
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E.
Torrumbarry Weir
Torrumbarry Weir is a major river regulation structure on the Murray River in Victoria, Australia, used for water storage, irrigation, and navigation control.
- 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: Aviemore Dam Target entity description: Aviemore Dam is a major hydroelectric dam in New Zealand’s South Island, forming Lake Aviemore as part of the Waitaki River power scheme.
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A.
Pitlochry Dam
Pitlochry Dam is a mid-20th-century hydroelectric dam on the River Tummel in Scotland, noted for its power station and popular salmon ladder attraction.
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B.
Bleiloch Dam
Bleiloch Dam is a large hydroelectric and flood-control dam in Thuringia, Germany, forming the country’s biggest reservoir on the upper Saale River.
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C.
Keenleyside Dam
Keenleyside Dam is a major hydroelectric and flood-control dam on the Columbia River in British Columbia, Canada, forming part of the region’s large transboundary water management system.
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D.
Feildes Weir
Feildes Weir is a historic river weir on the River Lea in England, used to control water levels and flow for navigation and water management.
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E.
Torrumbarry Weir
Torrumbarry Weir is a major river regulation structure on the Murray River in Victoria, Australia, used for water storage, irrigation, and navigation control.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
gravity dam
ⓘ
hydroelectric dam ⓘ hydroelectric power station ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1962 ⓘ |
| continent | Oceania ⓘ |
| country | New Zealand ⓘ |
| downstreamFrom | Benmore Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formsReservoir | Lake Aviemore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPowerStation | Aviemore Power Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
flood control
ⓘ
power generation ⓘ water regulation ⓘ |
| hasSpillway | yes ⓘ |
| locatedAtDam | Aviemore Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New Zealand’s South Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South Island ⓘ |
| locatedInBasin | Waitaki River basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Kurow
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Otematata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Waitaki River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1968 ⓘ |
| operator | Meridian Energy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Meridian Energy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Waitaki River power scheme
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Waitaki hydro scheme NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Canterbury
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Otago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reservoirName | Lake Aviemore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | operational ⓘ |
| upstreamFrom | Waitaki Dam 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: Aviemore Dam Description of subject: Aviemore Dam is a major hydroelectric dam in New Zealand’s South Island, forming Lake Aviemore as part of the Waitaki River power scheme.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.