Santa Clara Valley Water District
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Santa Clara Valley Water District is the public agency responsible for managing water supply, flood protection, and stream stewardship for Santa Clara County in California’s Silicon Valley.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Santa Clara Valley Water District canonical | 6 |
| Santa Clara Valley Water District (Valley Water) | 1 |
| Valley Water | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3135894 — 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: Santa Clara Valley Water District Context triple: [South Bay Aqueduct, suppliesWaterTo, Santa Clara Valley Water District]
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A.
Contra Costa Water District
Contra Costa Water District is a public water agency in California that supplies drinking and irrigation water to communities in and around Contra Costa County.
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B.
Alameda County Water District
Alameda County Water District is a public water agency in California responsible for providing drinking water and related services to communities in southern Alameda County, including Fremont, Newark, and Union City.
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C.
Valley Water
Valley Water is a picturesque pond located within Brooklyn’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery, known for its tranquil scenery and surrounding monuments.
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D.
Mojave Water Agency
The Mojave Water Agency is a regional water management and planning agency in Southern California responsible for securing, conserving, and overseeing water resources for communities in the Mojave Desert region.
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E.
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is the city agency responsible for providing and managing essential services such as water, power, and wastewater for San Francisco and surrounding communities.
- 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: Santa Clara Valley Water District Target entity description: Santa Clara Valley Water District is the public agency responsible for managing water supply, flood protection, and stream stewardship for Santa Clara County in California’s Silicon Valley.
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A.
Contra Costa Water District
Contra Costa Water District is a public water agency in California that supplies drinking and irrigation water to communities in and around Contra Costa County.
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B.
Alameda County Water District
Alameda County Water District is a public water agency in California responsible for providing drinking water and related services to communities in southern Alameda County, including Fremont, Newark, and Union City.
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C.
Valley Water
Valley Water is a picturesque pond located within Brooklyn’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery, known for its tranquil scenery and surrounding monuments.
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D.
Mojave Water Agency
The Mojave Water Agency is a regional water management and planning agency in Southern California responsible for securing, conserving, and overseeing water resources for communities in the Mojave Desert region.
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E.
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is the city agency responsible for providing and managing essential services such as water, power, and wastewater for San Francisco and surrounding communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public agency
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special district ⓘ water management agency ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Santa Clara Valley Water District (Valley Water)
ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Clara Valley Water District
Valley Water ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Clara Valley Water District
|
| collaboratesWith |
California Department of Water Resources
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U.S. Bureau of Reclamation ⓘ
linked to:
Bureau of Reclamation
local cities in Santa Clara County ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
climate change adaptation
ⓘ
drought preparedness ⓘ ecosystem protection ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
San José, California
ⓘ
linked to:
San Jose
|
| industry |
environmental stewardship
ⓘ
flood protection ⓘ water supply management ⓘ watershed management ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Santa Clara County, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Clara County
|
| locatedIn |
Santa Clara County, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Clara County
Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| manages |
creeks and streams in Santa Clara County
ⓘ
flood protection infrastructure in Santa Clara County ⓘ groundwater basins in Santa Clara County ⓘ surface water reservoirs in Santa Clara County ⓘ |
| regulates | groundwater extraction in Santa Clara County ⓘ |
| service |
dam and reservoir operation
ⓘ
drinking water treatment ⓘ flood risk reduction ⓘ groundwater management ⓘ habitat restoration ⓘ imported water management ⓘ recycled water development ⓘ stormwater management ⓘ stream stewardship ⓘ water conservation programs ⓘ water supply planning ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
City of Campbell, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Campbell, California
City of Cupertino, California ⓘ
linked to:
Cupertino
City of Gilroy, California ⓘ
linked to:
Gilroy
City of Los Altos Hills, California ⓘ
linked to:
Los Altos Hills, California, United States
City of Los Altos, California ⓘ
linked to:
Los Altos
City of Los Gatos, California ⓘ
linked to:
Los Gatos, California
City of Milpitas, California ⓘ
linked to:
Milpitas, California, United States
City of Morgan Hill, California ⓘ
linked to:
Morgan Hill
City of Mountain View, California ⓘ
linked to:
Mountain View, California, United States
City of Palo Alto, California ⓘ
linked to:
Palo Alto, California
City of San José, California ⓘ
linked to:
San Jose, California, United States
City of Santa Clara, California ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Clara, California, United States
City of Saratoga, California ⓘ
linked to:
Saratoga, California
City of Sunnyvale, California ⓘ unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| website | https://www.valleywater.org/ ⓘ |
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: Santa Clara Valley Water District Description of subject: Santa Clara Valley Water District is the public agency responsible for managing water supply, flood protection, and stream stewardship for Santa Clara County in California’s Silicon Valley.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Santa Clara Valley Water District
Santa Clara Valley Water District
→
alsoKnownAs
→
Santa Clara Valley Water District (Valley Water)
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linked to: Santa Clara Valley Water District