Burrendong Dam
E623008
Burrendong Dam is a major rock-fill embankment dam in New South Wales, Australia, providing water storage, irrigation, and flood mitigation for the Macquarie River region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Burrendong Dam canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6845249 — 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: Burrendong Dam Context triple: [Macquarie River (New South Wales), hasDam, Burrendong Dam]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Moondarra Dam
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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E.
Googong Dam
Googong Dam is a major water storage and supply reservoir serving the Canberra–Queanbeyan region in southeastern Australia.
- 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: Burrendong Dam Target entity description: Burrendong Dam is a major rock-fill embankment dam in New South Wales, Australia, providing water storage, irrigation, and flood mitigation for the Macquarie River region.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Moondarra Dam
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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E.
Googong Dam
Googong Dam is a major water storage and supply reservoir serving the Canberra–Queanbeyan region in southeastern Australia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
major dam
ⓘ
rock-fill embankment dam ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| catchmentArea | approximately 13,900 km² ⓘ |
| constructionBegan | 1958 ⓘ |
| constructionMaterial | rock-fill ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| crosses |
Cudgegong River (via backwater)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Macquarie River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| damType | embankment ⓘ |
| designedForFloodMitigationOf | Macquarie River floodplain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Lake Burrendong Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyFacility |
Burrendong Arboretum
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lake Burrendong State Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOutletWorks | multi-level offtake tower ⓘ |
| hasRecreationActivity |
boating
ⓘ
camping ⓘ fishing ⓘ |
| hasSignificantDroughtEvent | very low storage during Millennium Drought ⓘ |
| hasSignificantFloodEvent | major inflows during 2010–2011 floods ⓘ |
| hasSpillwayType |
gated spillway (after later upgrades)
ⓘ
uncontrolled concrete spillway ⓘ |
| height | approximately 76 m ⓘ |
| isUpstreamOf |
Macquarie Marshes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Warren Weir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| length | approximately 1,116 m ⓘ |
| locatedInBasin | Murray–Darling Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Central West, New South Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Wellington, New South Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Macquarie River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| managingAuthority | WaterNSW NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Burrendong locality NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened | 1967 ⓘ |
| owner | New South Wales Government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfWaterManagementScheme | Macquarie River water management system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| providesIrrigationTo | Macquarie Valley irrigation schemes ⓘ |
| purpose |
flood mitigation
ⓘ
irrigation ⓘ town water supply ⓘ water storage ⓘ |
| reservoirCapacity | approximately 1,188,000 ML ⓘ |
| reservoirName | Lake Burrendong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | New South Wales ⓘ |
| suppliesWaterTo |
Dubbo
NERFINISHED
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Narromine NERFINISHED ⓘ Trangie NERFINISHED ⓘ Wellington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| surfaceArea | approximately 8,900 ha at full supply ⓘ |
| upgraded | for dam safety improvements ⓘ |
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: Burrendong Dam Description of subject: Burrendong Dam is a major rock-fill embankment dam in New South Wales, Australia, providing water storage, irrigation, and flood mitigation for the Macquarie River region.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lake Burrendong