The Dam
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The Dam is the official name of the Oregon State Beavers football student section, known for its loud, energetic support at home games in Corvallis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Dam canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T761789 — 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: The Dam Context triple: [Oregon State Beavers football team, hasStudentSectionName, The Dam]
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A.
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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B.
Hollywood Dam
Hollywood Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles that impounds the Hollywood Reservoir as part of the city’s water supply system.
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C.
Eder Dam
Eder Dam is a major German gravity dam in the Eder River valley, historically known for being one of the dams breached by the RAF’s “Dambusters” raid during World War II.
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D.
Trinity Dam
Trinity Dam is a major earthfill dam on the Trinity River in Northern California, forming Trinity Lake and providing water storage, hydroelectric power, and flood control as part of the state’s large federal water management system.
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E.
McNary Dam
McNary Dam is a large hydroelectric dam and navigation lock complex on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
- 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: The Dam Target entity description: The Dam is the official name of the Oregon State Beavers football student section, known for its loud, energetic support at home games in Corvallis.
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A.
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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B.
Hollywood Dam
Hollywood Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles that impounds the Hollywood Reservoir as part of the city’s water supply system.
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C.
Eder Dam
Eder Dam is a major German gravity dam in the Eder River valley, historically known for being one of the dams breached by the RAF’s “Dambusters” raid during World War II.
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D.
Trinity Dam
Trinity Dam is a major earthfill dam on the Trinity River in Northern California, forming Trinity Lake and providing water storage, hydroelectric power, and flood control as part of the state’s large federal water management system.
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E.
McNary Dam
McNary Dam is a large hydroelectric dam and navigation lock complex on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
college football student section
ⓘ
supporters group ⓘ |
| associatedWithTeam |
Oregon State Beavers football team
ⓘ
surface form:
Oregon State Beavers football
|
| associatedWithUniversity | Oregon State University ⓘ |
| composedPrimarilyOf | Oregon State University students ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasColor |
black
ⓘ
orange ⓘ |
| homeGamesOnly | true ⓘ |
| homeVenue | Reser Stadium ⓘ |
| knownFor |
creating home-field advantage
ⓘ
energetic atmosphere ⓘ loud support ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedInCity | Corvallis, Oregon ⓘ |
| locatedInState | Oregon ⓘ |
| officialNameOf | Oregon State Beavers football student section ⓘ |
| partOf | Oregon State Beavers game-day environment ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Oregon State Beavers fans ⓘ |
| supportsConference | Pac-12 Conference ⓘ |
| supportsLevel |
NCAA Division I
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I FBS
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| supportsMascot | Benny Beaver ⓘ |
| supportsSport | American football ⓘ |
| typicalActivity |
cheering during home games
ⓘ
coordinated chants ⓘ standing for most of the game ⓘ |
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: The Dam Description of subject: The Dam is the official name of the Oregon State Beavers football student section, known for its loud, energetic support at home games in Corvallis.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.