Ord River irrigation scheme
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The Ord River irrigation scheme is a major agricultural development in northern Western Australia that harnesses the Ord River’s water through dams and channels to support large-scale irrigated farming around Kununurra.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ord River Irrigation Scheme | 1 |
| Ord River irrigation scheme canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11626112 — 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: Ord River irrigation scheme Context triple: [Kununurra, knownFor, Ord River irrigation scheme]
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A.
Orange River Project
The Orange River Project is a major South African water resource and irrigation scheme centered on large dams and canals along the Orange River to provide hydroelectric power, irrigation, and water supply to arid regions.
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B.
Goldfields Water Supply Scheme
The Goldfields Water Supply Scheme is a historic Australian engineering project that transports water over hundreds of kilometers from Perth to the arid Eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia.
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C.
Shannon hydroelectric scheme
The Shannon hydroelectric scheme is a major early 20th-century Irish engineering project that harnesses the River Shannon to generate electricity and played a key role in the country’s industrial development.
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D.
Snowy Hydro Scheme
The Snowy Hydro Scheme is a large-scale hydroelectricity and irrigation complex in Australia’s Snowy Mountains, renowned as one of the country’s most significant engineering projects.
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E.
Shannon River headrace canal
The Shannon River headrace canal is an engineered waterway in Ireland that diverts flow from the River Shannon to supply the Ardnacrusha hydroelectric power station.
- 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: Ord River irrigation scheme Target entity description: The Ord River irrigation scheme is a major agricultural development in northern Western Australia that harnesses the Ord River’s water through dams and channels to support large-scale irrigated farming around Kununurra.
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A.
Orange River Project
The Orange River Project is a major South African water resource and irrigation scheme centered on large dams and canals along the Orange River to provide hydroelectric power, irrigation, and water supply to arid regions.
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B.
Goldfields Water Supply Scheme
The Goldfields Water Supply Scheme is a historic Australian engineering project that transports water over hundreds of kilometers from Perth to the arid Eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia.
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C.
Shannon hydroelectric scheme
The Shannon hydroelectric scheme is a major early 20th-century Irish engineering project that harnesses the River Shannon to generate electricity and played a key role in the country’s industrial development.
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D.
Snowy Hydro Scheme
The Snowy Hydro Scheme is a large-scale hydroelectricity and irrigation complex in Australia’s Snowy Mountains, renowned as one of the country’s most significant engineering projects.
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E.
Shannon River headrace canal
The Shannon River headrace canal is an engineered waterway in Ireland that diverts flow from the River Shannon to supply the Ardnacrusha hydroelectric power station.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
agricultural development project
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irrigation scheme ⓘ |
| associatedWithPeople | Kimberley traditional owners ⓘ |
| associatedWithRiverSystem | Ord River catchment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1959 ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| developedBy |
Australian Government
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Government of Western Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| economicRole | major contributor to East Kimberley agriculture ⓘ |
| environmentalImpact |
altered flow regime of the Ord River
ⓘ
creation of Lake Argyle wetland habitat ⓘ |
| governedBy |
Ord Irrigation Cooperative
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Western Australian Department of Water and Environmental Regulation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| keyTown |
Kununurra
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wyndham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
East Kimberley region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Northern Western Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Kununurra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCrops |
chia
ⓘ
cotton ⓘ fodder crops ⓘ mangoes ⓘ melons ⓘ sandalwood plantations ⓘ |
| notableFeature | one of Australia’s largest irrigation schemes by potential area ⓘ |
| phase |
Ord Stage 1
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ord Stage 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| planningStartDate | 1940s ⓘ |
| purpose |
intensive crop production
ⓘ
irrigated agriculture ⓘ regional economic development ⓘ |
| regionClimate | tropical monsoonal ⓘ |
| riverUsed | Ord River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stage1AreaIrrigated | approximately 14,000 hectares ⓘ |
| stage2AreaIrrigated | approximately 7,400 hectares ⓘ |
| supportsActivity |
broadacre cropping
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horticulture ⓘ large-scale irrigated farming ⓘ pasture production ⓘ seed production ⓘ |
| totalPotentialIrrigableArea | over 70,000 hectares ⓘ |
| usesInfrastructure |
Diversion Dam at Kununurra
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lake Argyle NERFINISHED ⓘ Ord River Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ network of irrigation channels ⓘ pumping stations ⓘ |
| waterSource |
Lake Argyle
NERFINISHED
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Ord 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: Ord River irrigation scheme Description of subject: The Ord River irrigation scheme is a major agricultural development in northern Western Australia that harnesses the Ord River’s water through dams and channels to support large-scale irrigated farming around Kununurra.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.