Dakota Access Pipeline
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The Dakota Access Pipeline is a controversial underground oil pipeline in the United States that became the focus of major environmental and Indigenous rights protests, particularly led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dakota Access Pipeline canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7540687 — 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: Dakota Access Pipeline Context triple: [Standing Rock Indian Reservation, associatedWith, Dakota Access Pipeline]
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A.
Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is a major crude oil pipeline network that transports oil across Alaska from Arctic oil fields to the ice-free port of Valdez.
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B.
Mexican Pipeline
The Mexican Pipeline is a world-famous, powerful beach break at Playa Zicatela in Puerto Escondido, renowned for its heavy, barreling waves that attract elite big-wave surfers.
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C.
Power of Siberia gas pipeline
The Power of Siberia gas pipeline is a major cross-border energy infrastructure project transporting natural gas from Russia to China, symbolizing deepening energy and economic ties between the two countries.
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D.
Manhattan Pipeline
Manhattan Pipeline is a subsidiary of Manhattan Construction Company that specializes in pipeline construction and related infrastructure services.
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E.
Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act is a 1973 U.S. federal law that cleared legal obstacles to constructing the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System to transport oil from Alaska’s North Slope to the port of Valdez.
- 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: Dakota Access Pipeline Target entity description: The Dakota Access Pipeline is a controversial underground oil pipeline in the United States that became the focus of major environmental and Indigenous rights protests, particularly led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
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A.
Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is a major crude oil pipeline network that transports oil across Alaska from Arctic oil fields to the ice-free port of Valdez.
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B.
Mexican Pipeline
The Mexican Pipeline is a world-famous, powerful beach break at Playa Zicatela in Puerto Escondido, renowned for its heavy, barreling waves that attract elite big-wave surfers.
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C.
Power of Siberia gas pipeline
The Power of Siberia gas pipeline is a major cross-border energy infrastructure project transporting natural gas from Russia to China, symbolizing deepening energy and economic ties between the two countries.
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D.
Manhattan Pipeline
Manhattan Pipeline is a subsidiary of Manhattan Construction Company that specializes in pipeline construction and related infrastructure services.
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E.
Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act is a 1973 U.S. federal law that cleared legal obstacles to constructing the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System to transport oil from Alaska’s North Slope to the port of Valdez.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | crude oil pipeline ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | DAPL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructionAdvancedBy | Donald Trump administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructionHaltedBy | Barack Obama administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 2016 ⓘ |
| controversy |
alleged violation of Indigenous sovereignty
ⓘ
routing near tribal lands ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| courtRuling | 2020 federal court ordered new environmental review ⓘ |
| crossesRiver |
Big Sioux River
NERFINISHED
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Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ Missouri River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designedCapacity | 470,000 barrels of oil per day ⓘ |
| endPoint | Patoka, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| environmentalConcern |
impact on sacred sites
ⓘ
risk of oil spills ⓘ threat to water sources ⓘ |
| financedBy | major international banks ⓘ |
| hasCommodity | light sweet crude oil ⓘ |
| hasShareholder |
Enbridge Inc.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marathon Petroleum NERFINISHED ⓘ Phillips 66 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inServiceDate | June 2017 ⓘ |
| legalIssue |
environmental impact assessment
ⓘ
treaty rights ⓘ tribal consultation ⓘ |
| length | approximately 1,172 miles ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Illinois
ⓘ
Iowa ⓘ North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ South Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainOpposingGroup | Standing Rock Sioux Tribe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearWaterSource | Lake Oahe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | Energy Transfer Partners NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originBasin | Bakken formation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | Dakota Access, LLC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Energy Transfer LP NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesNear | Standing Rock Indian Reservation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pipelineType | underground pipeline ⓘ |
| protestCampLocation | Oceti Sakowin camp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regulator | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedMovement | water protectors movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startPoint | Stanley, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Indigenous rights protests
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Standing Rock protests NERFINISHED ⓘ divestment campaigns ⓘ environmental protests ⓘ international solidarity protests ⓘ |
| transports | Bakken crude oil ⓘ |
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: Dakota Access Pipeline Description of subject: The Dakota Access Pipeline is a controversial underground oil pipeline in the United States that became the focus of major environmental and Indigenous rights protests, particularly led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.