Yakima Project
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The Yakima Project is a major federal water management and irrigation system in central Washington State that supplies water for agriculture, municipalities, and fish and wildlife habitat.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yakima Project canonical | 20 |
| Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project | 2 |
| Newlands Project | 1 |
| Yakima Project (U.S. Bureau of Reclamation) | 1 |
| Yakima Project Tieton Division | 1 |
| Yakima Project storage division | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1258909 — 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: Yakima Project Context triple: [Bureau of Reclamation, notableProject, Yakima Project]
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A.
Columbia Basin Project
The Columbia Basin Project is a large-scale irrigation and hydroelectric development in central Washington State that distributes water and power from the Grand Coulee Dam to support agriculture, industry, and communities across the region.
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B.
Fryingpan–Arkansas Project
The Fryingpan–Arkansas Project is a major U.S. water diversion and storage system in Colorado that transfers water from the Western Slope to the Arkansas River Basin for irrigation, municipal use, and hydroelectric power.
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C.
Colorado-Big Thompson Project
The Colorado-Big Thompson Project is a major transbasin water diversion and storage system in Colorado that delivers Colorado River water to the arid eastern plains for agriculture, cities, and industry.
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D.
Reclamation
Reclamation is a U.S. federal agency responsible for managing water resources and operating dams, power plants, and irrigation projects primarily in the western United States.
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E.
McNary Dam
McNary Dam is a large hydroelectric dam and navigation lock complex on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
- 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: Yakima Project Target entity description: The Yakima Project is a major federal water management and irrigation system in central Washington State that supplies water for agriculture, municipalities, and fish and wildlife habitat.
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A.
Columbia Basin Project
The Columbia Basin Project is a large-scale irrigation and hydroelectric development in central Washington State that distributes water and power from the Grand Coulee Dam to support agriculture, industry, and communities across the region.
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B.
Fryingpan–Arkansas Project
The Fryingpan–Arkansas Project is a major U.S. water diversion and storage system in Colorado that transfers water from the Western Slope to the Arkansas River Basin for irrigation, municipal use, and hydroelectric power.
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C.
Colorado-Big Thompson Project
The Colorado-Big Thompson Project is a major transbasin water diversion and storage system in Colorado that delivers Colorado River water to the arid eastern plains for agriculture, cities, and industry.
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D.
Reclamation
Reclamation is a U.S. federal agency responsible for managing water resources and operating dams, power plants, and irrigation projects primarily in the western United States.
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E.
McNary Dam
McNary Dam is a large hydroelectric dam and navigation lock complex on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
federal water management project
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irrigation project ⓘ water resources development project ⓘ |
| basin | Yakima River ⓘ |
| benefits |
anadromous fish populations
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irrigated agriculture in Yakima Valley ⓘ municipal water users in central Washington ⓘ resident fish populations ⓘ wildlife habitat ⓘ |
| component |
Bumping Lake Dam
ⓘ
Cle Elum Dam ⓘ Kachess Dam ⓘ Keechelus Dam ⓘ Kittitas Division ⓘ
linked to:
Kittitas Valley
Rimrock Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ Roza Canal ⓘ Roza Dam ⓘ Roza Division ⓘ Sunnyside Canal ⓘ Sunnyside Division ⓘ
linked to:
Sunnyside
Tieton Dam ⓘ Tieton Division ⓘ Wapato Canal ⓘ Wapato Division ⓘ |
| constructionStart | early 20th century ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fundingSource |
federal government of the United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
|
| hasProgram |
Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project
ⓘ
linked to:
Yakima Project
|
| jurisdiction |
U.S. Department of the Interior
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Department of the Interior
|
| locatedIn |
Yakima River Basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Yakima River
central Washington State ⓘ |
| managingAgency |
United States Bureau of Reclamation
ⓘ
linked to:
Bureau of Reclamation
|
| operatedBy |
United States Bureau of Reclamation
ⓘ
linked to:
Bureau of Reclamation
|
| purpose |
fish habitat support
ⓘ
flood control ⓘ hydropower generation ⓘ irrigation water supply ⓘ municipal water supply ⓘ wildlife habitat support ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Columbia Basin Project ⓘ |
| riverSystem | Columbia River Basin ⓘ |
| servesRegion | Yakima Valley ⓘ |
| servesSector |
agriculture
ⓘ
municipalities ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| waterUse |
irrigation of hops fields
ⓘ
irrigation of orchards ⓘ irrigation of vineyards ⓘ |
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: Yakima Project Description of subject: The Yakima Project is a major federal water management and irrigation system in central Washington State that supplies water for agriculture, municipalities, and fish and wildlife habitat.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
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linked to: Yakima Project