Kern River Gas Transmission Company
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Kern River Gas Transmission Company is a major U.S. natural gas pipeline operator that transports gas from the Rocky Mountains to markets in the western United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kern River Gas Transmission Company canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2951909 — 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: Kern River Gas Transmission Company Context triple: [Berkshire Hathaway Energy, owns, Kern River Gas Transmission Company]
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A.
Sacramento Southern Railroad
The Sacramento Southern Railroad is a heritage railway in Sacramento, California, offering excursion train rides along the Sacramento River as part of the California State Railroad Museum’s operations.
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B.
Southwestern Power Administration
Southwestern Power Administration is a U.S. federal agency that markets and transmits hydroelectric power generated at federally owned dams across the southwestern region.
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C.
Tehama-Colusa Canal Authority
The Tehama-Colusa Canal Authority is a regional water management agency in California responsible for operating and maintaining the Tehama-Colusa Canal to deliver irrigation water to participating districts.
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D.
Western Area Power Administration
Western Area Power Administration is a U.S. federal agency that markets and transmits wholesale hydroelectric power across the western and central United States.
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E.
Friant Water Authority
Friant Water Authority is a California-based public agency that manages and delivers irrigation and municipal water supplies from the federal Central Valley Project to agricultural and urban users along the Friant Division.
- 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: Kern River Gas Transmission Company Target entity description: Kern River Gas Transmission Company is a major U.S. natural gas pipeline operator that transports gas from the Rocky Mountains to markets in the western United States.
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A.
Sacramento Southern Railroad
The Sacramento Southern Railroad is a heritage railway in Sacramento, California, offering excursion train rides along the Sacramento River as part of the California State Railroad Museum’s operations.
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B.
Southwestern Power Administration
Southwestern Power Administration is a U.S. federal agency that markets and transmits hydroelectric power generated at federally owned dams across the southwestern region.
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C.
Tehama-Colusa Canal Authority
The Tehama-Colusa Canal Authority is a regional water management agency in California responsible for operating and maintaining the Tehama-Colusa Canal to deliver irrigation water to participating districts.
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D.
Western Area Power Administration
Western Area Power Administration is a U.S. federal agency that markets and transmits wholesale hydroelectric power across the western and central United States.
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E.
Friant Water Authority
Friant Water Authority is a California-based public agency that manages and delivers irrigation and municipal water supplies from the federal Central Valley Project to agricultural and urban users along the Friant Division.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
energy infrastructure company
ⓘ
natural gas pipeline company ⓘ |
| abbreviation | Kern River ⓘ |
| businessModel | fee-based transportation ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| customerType |
electric utilities
ⓘ
industrial customers ⓘ local distribution companies ⓘ |
| energySourceSupported | natural gas-fired power generation ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| industry | natural gas transmission ⓘ |
| notableFeature | transports natural gas from Rocky Mountain production areas to western U.S. markets ⓘ |
| operates | Kern River Pipeline ⓘ |
| owner | Berkshire Hathaway Energy ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Berkshire Hathaway Energy ⓘ |
| pipelineType | interstate natural gas pipeline ⓘ |
| productTransported | natural gas ⓘ |
| regionServed |
U.S. West
ⓘ
linked to:
US West
|
| regulator | Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ⓘ |
| sector | midstream energy ⓘ |
| service |
firm transportation capacity
ⓘ
interruptible transportation capacity ⓘ natural gas transportation ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Nevada ⓘ Utah ⓘ Wyoming ⓘ western United States ⓘ |
| sourceRegion | Rocky Mountains ⓘ |
| transportMode | pipeline ⓘ |
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: Kern River Gas Transmission Company Description of subject: Kern River Gas Transmission Company is a major U.S. natural gas pipeline operator that transports gas from the Rocky Mountains to markets in the western United States.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.