Colorado Division of Water Resources
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The Colorado Division of Water Resources is the state agency responsible for administering water rights, managing water resources, and ensuring compliance with interstate water compacts within Colorado.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Colorado Division of Water Resources canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10317315 — 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: Colorado Division of Water Resources Context triple: [Republican River basin (Colorado portion), managedBy, Colorado Division of Water Resources]
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A.
Arizona Department of Water Resources
The Arizona Department of Water Resources is the state agency responsible for managing, regulating, and planning the use and conservation of Arizona’s water resources.
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B.
Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District
The Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District is a public water agency that manages and delivers Colorado-Big Thompson Project water supplies to municipalities, industries, and agricultural users across northeastern Colorado.
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C.
Colorado River Basin Regional Water Quality Control Board
The Colorado River Basin Regional Water Quality Control Board is a California state agency responsible for protecting and regulating water quality in the Colorado River Basin region.
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D.
Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District
The Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District is a regional public agency responsible for developing, managing, and distributing water resources to support municipal, industrial, and agricultural needs in southeastern Colorado.
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E.
Nevada Division of Water Resources
The Nevada Division of Water Resources is the state agency responsible for managing, allocating, and overseeing the use of Nevada’s water resources, including rivers, groundwater, and water rights administration.
- 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: Colorado Division of Water Resources Target entity description: The Colorado Division of Water Resources is the state agency responsible for administering water rights, managing water resources, and ensuring compliance with interstate water compacts within Colorado.
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A.
Arizona Department of Water Resources
The Arizona Department of Water Resources is the state agency responsible for managing, regulating, and planning the use and conservation of Arizona’s water resources.
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B.
Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District
The Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District is a public water agency that manages and delivers Colorado-Big Thompson Project water supplies to municipalities, industries, and agricultural users across northeastern Colorado.
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C.
Colorado River Basin Regional Water Quality Control Board
The Colorado River Basin Regional Water Quality Control Board is a California state agency responsible for protecting and regulating water quality in the Colorado River Basin region.
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D.
Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District
The Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District is a regional public agency responsible for developing, managing, and distributing water resources to support municipal, industrial, and agricultural needs in southeastern Colorado.
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E.
Nevada Division of Water Resources
The Nevada Division of Water Resources is the state agency responsible for managing, allocating, and overseeing the use of Nevada’s water resources, including rivers, groundwater, and water rights administration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
state government agency
ⓘ
water management agency ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Office of the State Engineer ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Colorado Water Conservation Board
ⓘ
Colorado water courts ⓘ U.S. Bureau of Reclamation ⓘ
linked to:
Bureau of Reclamation
U.S. Geological Survey ⓘ
linked to:
United States Geological Survey
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| focusesOn |
groundwater management
ⓘ
surface water management ⓘ |
| hasLegalAuthority |
to approve substitute water supply plans in Colorado
ⓘ
to curtail water diversions that are out of priority ⓘ to issue well permits in Colorado ⓘ to regulate dam safety in Colorado ⓘ |
| headOfOrganization | Colorado State Engineer ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Denver, Colorado ⓘ |
| implements |
Colorado water rights priority system
ⓘ
prior appropriation doctrine in Colorado ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
State of Colorado
ⓘ
linked to:
Colorado
|
| mandate |
to administer and enforce Colorado water law
ⓘ
to ensure compliance with interstate water compacts ⓘ to protect the water rights of Colorado water users ⓘ |
| oversees |
division engineers in Colorado
ⓘ
water commissioners in Colorado ⓘ water commissioners’ administration of water rights ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Colorado Department of Natural Resources ⓘ |
| partOf |
Colorado state government
ⓘ
linked to:
Government of Colorado
|
| responsibleFor |
administration of augmentation plans in Colorado
ⓘ
administration of interstate water agreements involving Colorado ⓘ administration of interstate water compacts involving Colorado ⓘ administration of substitute water supply plans in Colorado ⓘ administration of water rights in Colorado ⓘ dam and reservoir inspections in Colorado ⓘ dam safety regulation in Colorado ⓘ distribution of groundwater in Colorado ⓘ distribution of surface water in Colorado ⓘ enforcement of Colorado water law ⓘ enforcement of water court decrees in Colorado ⓘ flood hazard identification related to dams in Colorado ⓘ groundwater resource administration in Colorado ⓘ hydrographic data collection in Colorado ⓘ measurement and monitoring of streamflows in Colorado ⓘ permitting of wells in Colorado ⓘ water use data collection in Colorado ⓘ water well construction standards in Colorado ⓘ |
| state | Colorado ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Colorado Revised Statutes Title 37 provisions ⓘ |
| usesSystem | water district and division structure for administration ⓘ |
| website | https://dwr.colorado.gov/ ⓘ |
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: Colorado Division of Water Resources Description of subject: The Colorado Division of Water Resources is the state agency responsible for administering water rights, managing water resources, and ensuring compliance with interstate water compacts within Colorado.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.