Mthatha Dam

E942645

Mthatha Dam is a major water reservoir in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, serving as an important source of water supply and flow regulation for the surrounding region.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Mthatha Dam canonical 1

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dam
reservoir
basinCountry South Africa NERFINISHED
category Buildings and structures in the Eastern Cape
Dams in South Africa
Reservoirs in South Africa
continent Africa
country South Africa
hasFunction regulation of river flow
storage of raw water
hasImpact modifies downstream flow regime
supports regional water security
isPartOf Mthatha River catchment NERFINISHED
locatedIn Eastern Cape
OR Tambo District Municipality NERFINISHED
South African Eastern Cape interior
locatedNear Mthatha NERFINISHED
locatedOnRiver Mthatha River NERFINISHED
managingAuthority Department of Water and Sanitation (South Africa) NERFINISHED
purpose flood control
flow regulation
irrigation
water supply
regionServed Mthatha NERFINISHED
surrounding Eastern Cape communities
usedFor agricultural water use
domestic water supply
industrial water supply
municipal water supply
watercourse Mthatha 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: Mthatha Dam
Description of subject: Mthatha Dam is a major water reservoir in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, serving as an important source of water supply and flow regulation for the surrounding region.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mthatha River hasDam Mthatha Dam