Detroit water system (Lake Huron via Detroit Water and Sewerage Department)
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The Detroit water system is a major municipal water supply network that draws treated drinking water from Lake Huron and distributes it to Detroit and numerous surrounding communities in southeastern Michigan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Detroit water system (Lake Huron via Detroit Water and Sewerage Department) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2857848 — 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: Detroit water system (Lake Huron via Detroit Water and Sewerage Department) Context triple: [Flint water crisis, waterSourceBefore, Detroit water system (Lake Huron via Detroit Water and Sewerage Department)]
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A.
Inland Waterway (Michigan)
Inland Waterway (Michigan) is a connected chain of rivers and lakes in northern Michigan popular for boating, fishing, and scenic recreation.
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B.
Port Huron, Michigan, United States
Port Huron is a city in eastern Michigan on the St. Clair River, known as a historic Great Lakes port and the boyhood home of inventor Thomas Edison.
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C.
Detroit Lake
Detroit Lake is a large reservoir in western Oregon popular for boating, fishing, and camping, formed by the Detroit Dam on the North Santiam River.
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D.
Detroit River
The Detroit River is a strait of the Great Lakes system that forms part of the border between the United States and Canada, connecting Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie and serving as a major shipping and industrial waterway.
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E.
North Channel of Lake Huron
The North Channel of Lake Huron is a scenic, island-dotted waterway in Ontario renowned for its sheltered cruising, boating, and rugged natural beauty.
- 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: Detroit water system (Lake Huron via Detroit Water and Sewerage Department) Target entity description: The Detroit water system is a major municipal water supply network that draws treated drinking water from Lake Huron and distributes it to Detroit and numerous surrounding communities in southeastern Michigan.
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A.
Inland Waterway (Michigan)
Inland Waterway (Michigan) is a connected chain of rivers and lakes in northern Michigan popular for boating, fishing, and scenic recreation.
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B.
Port Huron, Michigan, United States
Port Huron is a city in eastern Michigan on the St. Clair River, known as a historic Great Lakes port and the boyhood home of inventor Thomas Edison.
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C.
Detroit Lake
Detroit Lake is a large reservoir in western Oregon popular for boating, fishing, and camping, formed by the Detroit Dam on the North Santiam River.
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D.
Detroit River
The Detroit River is a strait of the Great Lakes system that forms part of the border between the United States and Canada, connecting Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie and serving as a major shipping and industrial waterway.
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E.
North Channel of Lake Huron
The North Channel of Lake Huron is a scenic, island-dotted waterway in Ontario renowned for its sheltered cruising, boating, and rugged natural beauty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drinking water distribution network
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municipal water supply system ⓘ |
| connectedTo | local distribution systems of surrounding municipalities ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| distributionMethod |
pumping stations
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underground water mains ⓘ |
| drawsWaterFrom | Lake Huron ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
distribution mains
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pumping stations ⓘ storage reservoirs ⓘ transmission mains ⓘ water intake facilities on Lake Huron ⓘ water treatment plants ⓘ |
| infrastructureType | water treatment and distribution system ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
southeastern Michigan ⓘ |
| managedBy | Detroit Water and Sewerage Department ⓘ |
| monitoredBy |
Detroit Water and Sewerage Department water quality laboratories
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linked to:
Detroit Water and Sewerage Department
|
| ownedBy |
City of Detroit
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linked to:
Detroit
|
| partOf | Detroit Water and Sewerage Department infrastructure ⓘ |
| primaryWaterSource | Lake Huron ⓘ |
| providesService |
potable water to commercial customers
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potable water to industrial customers ⓘ potable water to residential customers ⓘ |
| purpose |
municipal drinking water distribution
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public water supply ⓘ |
| regionServed | southeast Michigan ⓘ |
| regulates | water pressure in distribution network ⓘ |
| sector | public utilities ⓘ |
| servesCity |
Detroit, Michigan
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linked to:
Detroit
|
| servesPopulation | Detroit metropolitan area ⓘ |
| servesRegion |
Macomb County, Michigan
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Oakland County, Michigan ⓘ Wayne County, Michigan ⓘ other surrounding communities in southeastern Michigan ⓘ |
| serviceType | continuous water supply ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
federal Safe Drinking Water Act (United States)
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linked to:
Safe Drinking Water Act
state drinking water regulations of Michigan ⓘ |
| usesTreatment |
corrosion control
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disinfection ⓘ filtration ⓘ |
| utilityType | water utility ⓘ |
| waterType | treated drinking water ⓘ |
| waterUse |
commercial consumption
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domestic consumption ⓘ industrial consumption ⓘ |
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: Detroit water system (Lake Huron via Detroit Water and Sewerage Department) Description of subject: The Detroit water system is a major municipal water supply network that draws treated drinking water from Lake Huron and distributes it to Detroit and numerous surrounding communities in southeastern Michigan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Flint water crisis
→
waterSourceBefore
→
Detroit water system (Lake Huron via Detroit Water and Sewerage Department)
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