Big Pine Canal
E426818
Big Pine Canal is an irrigation waterway near the town of Big Pine in California’s Owens Valley, historically used to divert Sierra Nevada snowmelt for local agriculture and water supply.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Big Pine Canal canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4284207 — 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: Big Pine Canal Context triple: [Big Pine, California, hasLandmark, Big Pine Canal]
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A.
Delta-Mendota Canal
The Delta-Mendota Canal is a major irrigation and water conveyance canal in California’s Central Valley that transports water from the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta to agricultural and urban users in the San Joaquin Valley.
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B.
Madera Canal
Madera Canal is an irrigation and water-conveyance canal in California’s Central Valley that delivers San Joaquin River water to agricultural lands and communities in Madera County.
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C.
East Low Canal
The East Low Canal is a major irrigation waterway in central Washington State that delivers Columbia River water to farmlands as part of the Columbia Basin’s large-scale reclamation system.
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D.
Burlington Canal
The Burlington Canal is a navigational waterway in Ontario, Canada, that provides ship access between Lake Ontario and Hamilton Harbour.
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E.
Contra Costa Canal
The Contra Costa Canal is a man-made waterway in California that delivers irrigation and municipal water from the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta to communities in Contra Costa County.
- 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: Big Pine Canal Target entity description: Big Pine Canal is an irrigation waterway near the town of Big Pine in California’s Owens Valley, historically used to divert Sierra Nevada snowmelt for local agriculture and water supply.
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A.
Delta-Mendota Canal
The Delta-Mendota Canal is a major irrigation and water conveyance canal in California’s Central Valley that transports water from the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta to agricultural and urban users in the San Joaquin Valley.
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B.
Madera Canal
Madera Canal is an irrigation and water-conveyance canal in California’s Central Valley that delivers San Joaquin River water to agricultural lands and communities in Madera County.
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C.
East Low Canal
The East Low Canal is a major irrigation waterway in central Washington State that delivers Columbia River water to farmlands as part of the Columbia Basin’s large-scale reclamation system.
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D.
Burlington Canal
The Burlington Canal is a navigational waterway in Ontario, Canada, that provides ship access between Lake Ontario and Hamilton Harbour.
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E.
Contra Costa Canal
The Contra Costa Canal is a man-made waterway in California that delivers irrigation and municipal water from the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta to communities in Contra Costa County.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
irrigation canal
ⓘ
waterway ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Big Pine agricultural community
ⓘ
Sierra Nevada ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| environment | arid basin of Owens Valley ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
conveyance of irrigation water
ⓘ
distribution of diverted streamflow ⓘ |
| historicalUse |
diverting water for local agriculture
ⓘ
supplying water to the Big Pine area ⓘ |
| hydrologicalContext | man‑made diversion channel ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Inyo County, California ⓘ Owens Valley ⓘ |
| near | Big Pine, California ⓘ |
| partOf | Owens Valley irrigation infrastructure ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
agricultural water supply
ⓘ
irrigation ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Big Pine area
ⓘ
portions of Owens Valley farmland ⓘ |
| status | operational (irrigation use) ⓘ |
| usedFor |
crop irrigation
ⓘ
local water supply ⓘ |
| waterSource |
Sierra Nevada snowmelt
ⓘ
surface water diversions from Sierra Nevada streams ⓘ |
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: Big Pine Canal Description of subject: Big Pine Canal is an irrigation waterway near the town of Big Pine in California’s Owens Valley, historically used to divert Sierra Nevada snowmelt for local agriculture and water supply.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.