Shasta Dam
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Shasta Dam is a large concrete gravity dam on California’s Sacramento River, forming Shasta Lake and serving as a key source of water storage, hydroelectric power, and flood control for the state.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shasta Dam canonical | 10 |
| Shasta Powerplant | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T474328 — 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.
Target entity: Shasta Dam Context triple: [Central Valley Project, includes, Shasta Dam]
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Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam is a massive concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River, renowned as a landmark feat of 20th-century American engineering and a major source of hydroelectric power and water management in the Southwest.
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B.
Grand Coulee Dam
Grand Coulee Dam is a massive concrete gravity dam on the Columbia River in Washington State, renowned as one of the largest power-producing facilities in the United States and a landmark of New Deal–era infrastructure.
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C.
Conklingville Dam
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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D.
Hollywood Reservoir
Hollywood Reservoir is a man-made lake in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, known for its scenic walking paths and iconic views of the Hollywood Sign.
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E.
Lake Mead
Lake Mead is a large man-made reservoir on the Colorado River in the southwestern United States, known for supplying water and hydroelectric power to millions of people in the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Shasta Dam Target entity description: Shasta Dam is a large concrete gravity dam on California’s Sacramento River, forming Shasta Lake and serving as a key source of water storage, hydroelectric power, and flood control for the state.
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A.
Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam is a massive concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River, renowned as a landmark feat of 20th-century American engineering and a major source of hydroelectric power and water management in the Southwest.
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B.
Grand Coulee Dam
Grand Coulee Dam is a massive concrete gravity dam on the Columbia River in Washington State, renowned as one of the largest power-producing facilities in the United States and a landmark of New Deal–era infrastructure.
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C.
Conklingville Dam
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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D.
Hollywood Reservoir
Hollywood Reservoir is a man-made lake in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, known for its scenic walking paths and iconic views of the Hollywood Sign.
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E.
Lake Mead
Lake Mead is a large man-made reservoir on the Colorado River in the southwestern United States, known for supplying water and hydroelectric power to millions of people in the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
concrete gravity dam
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dam ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1945 ⓘ |
| constructionEra |
New Deal
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surface form:
New Deal era
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| constructionMaterial | concrete ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1938 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| crestElevation | 1067 feet above sea level ⓘ |
| crosses | Sacramento River ⓘ |
| damType | gravity dam ⓘ |
| formsReservoir | Shasta Lake ⓘ |
| hasPowerPlant |
Shasta Dam
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Shasta Powerplant
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| height |
183 meters
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602 feet ⓘ |
| installedCapacity | about 676 MW ⓘ |
| length |
1055 meters
ⓘ
3460 feet ⓘ |
| listedAs | National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
Shasta County ⓘ
surface form:
Shasta County, California
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| locatedInCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| locatedOnRiver | Sacramento River ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Mount Shasta ⓘ |
| nearCity |
Redding
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surface form:
Redding, California
Shasta Lake ⓘ
surface form:
Shasta Lake, California
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| numberOfTurbines | 5 ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1945 ⓘ |
| operator |
Bureau of Reclamation
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surface form:
United States Bureau of Reclamation
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| owner |
Bureau of Reclamation
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surface form:
United States Bureau of Reclamation
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| partOfProject | Central Valley Project ⓘ |
| partOfSystem | California water system ⓘ |
| powerPlantType | hydroelectric power plant ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose |
flood control
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hydroelectric power generation ⓘ water storage ⓘ |
| providesService |
flood control for Sacramento Valley
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hydroelectric power to the regional grid ⓘ water supply for agriculture ⓘ water supply for municipalities ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Central Valley
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surface form:
Central Valley of California
Sacramento Valley ⓘ San Joaquin Valley ⓘ |
| reservoirName | Shasta Lake ⓘ |
| reservoirTotalCapacity |
4552000 acre-feet
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5.61 cubic kilometers ⓘ |
| riverBasin | Sacramento River Basin ⓘ |
| secondaryPurpose |
irrigation supply
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recreation support ⓘ |
| turbineType | Francis turbine ⓘ |
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Subject: Shasta Dam Description of subject: Shasta Dam is a large concrete gravity dam on California’s Sacramento River, forming Shasta Lake and serving as a key source of water storage, hydroelectric power, and flood control for the state.
Referenced by (11)
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