Newark water supply system
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The Newark water supply system is a network of reservoirs, pipelines, and treatment facilities that provides drinking water to the city of Newark, New Jersey and surrounding communities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Newark water supply system canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13547940 — 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: Newark water supply system Context triple: [Clinton Reservoir, partOf, Newark water supply system]
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A.
Jersey City water supply system
The Jersey City water supply system is the municipal infrastructure network that sources, treats, and delivers potable water to Jersey City, New Jersey.
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B.
New York City water supply system
The New York City water supply system is a vast network of reservoirs, aqueducts, tunnels, and distribution infrastructure that delivers potable water from upstate watersheds to millions of residents in New York City.
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C.
Catskill–Delaware water supply system
The Catskill–Delaware water supply system is a major network of reservoirs, aqueducts, and related infrastructure that delivers the majority of New York City’s high-quality drinking water from the Catskill Mountains and Delaware River watershed.
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D.
Metropolitan Water Works system
The Metropolitan Water Works system is a historic public water supply network that provided drinking water to the Boston metropolitan area through an extensive system of reservoirs, aqueducts, and related infrastructure.
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E.
New York City Board of Water Supply
The New York City Board of Water Supply was a municipal agency responsible for planning and constructing the large-scale waterworks that expanded and secured New York City’s drinking water system in the early 20th century.
- 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: Newark water supply system Target entity description: The Newark water supply system is a network of reservoirs, pipelines, and treatment facilities that provides drinking water to the city of Newark, New Jersey and surrounding communities.
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A.
Jersey City water supply system
The Jersey City water supply system is the municipal infrastructure network that sources, treats, and delivers potable water to Jersey City, New Jersey.
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B.
New York City water supply system
The New York City water supply system is a vast network of reservoirs, aqueducts, tunnels, and distribution infrastructure that delivers potable water from upstate watersheds to millions of residents in New York City.
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C.
Catskill–Delaware water supply system
The Catskill–Delaware water supply system is a major network of reservoirs, aqueducts, and related infrastructure that delivers the majority of New York City’s high-quality drinking water from the Catskill Mountains and Delaware River watershed.
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D.
Metropolitan Water Works system
The Metropolitan Water Works system is a historic public water supply network that provided drinking water to the Boston metropolitan area through an extensive system of reservoirs, aqueducts, and related infrastructure.
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E.
New York City Board of Water Supply
The New York City Board of Water Supply was a municipal agency responsible for planning and constructing the large-scale waterworks that expanded and secured New York City’s drinking water system in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | municipal water supply system ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| governedBy | New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection regulations ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
finished water distribution mains
ⓘ
raw water transmission pipelines ⓘ reservoir network ⓘ water treatment facilities ⓘ |
| hasCustomerType |
commercial water customers
ⓘ
industrial water customers ⓘ residential water customers ⓘ |
| hasDistributionCenter | Newark water distribution network ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
Pequannock Water Treatment Plant
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wanaque South water treatment facilities NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructureType | surface water supply ⓘ |
| hasMitigationMeasure | lead service line replacement program ⓘ |
| hasProcess |
coagulation and flocculation
ⓘ
disinfection ⓘ filtration ⓘ sedimentation ⓘ |
| hasRegulatoryBody | New Jersey Board of Public Utilities NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRisk | lead contamination in distribution system ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cedar Grove, New Jersey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Essex County, New Jersey ⓘ Hardyston Township, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ Jefferson Township, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ Morris County, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ Newark, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ Passaic County, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ Sussex County, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ Verona, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ West Milford, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| managedBy | City of Newark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| monitoredBy | Newark Department of Water and Sewer Utilities NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | City of Newark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| provides | potable water ⓘ |
| purpose | public drinking water supply ⓘ |
| regionServed | Northern New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serves |
City of Newark, New Jersey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
surrounding communities in New Jersey ⓘ |
| subjectTo | United States Safe Drinking Water Act NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesWaterSource |
Canistear Reservoir
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charlotteburg Reservoir NERFINISHED ⓘ Clinton Reservoir NERFINISHED ⓘ Monksville Reservoir NERFINISHED ⓘ Oak Ridge Reservoir NERFINISHED ⓘ Pequannock River watershed NERFINISHED ⓘ Wanaque Reservoir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| utilityType | publicly owned utility ⓘ |
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: Newark water supply system Description of subject: The Newark water supply system is a network of reservoirs, pipelines, and treatment facilities that provides drinking water to the city of Newark, New Jersey and surrounding communities.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.