San Luis Canal
E363208
San Luis Canal is a major irrigation and water conveyance canal in California that transports water from the San Luis Reservoir to agricultural and urban users in the San Joaquin Valley.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| San Luis Canal canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3509463 — 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: San Luis Canal Context triple: [San Luis Unit, hasPart, San Luis Canal]
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A.
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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B.
Küsten Canal
The Küsten Canal is a major shipping canal in northwestern Germany that links the Ems and Weser river systems and supports regional inland water transport.
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C.
Casiquiare canal
The Casiquiare canal is a rare natural river channel in Venezuela that uniquely links the Orinoco and Amazon river basins, allowing water to flow between two of South America’s largest river systems.
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D.
Tamiami Canal
Tamiami Canal is a major man-made waterway in South Florida that runs parallel to the Tamiami Trail, helping drain the Everglades and manage water flow around the Miami metropolitan area.
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E.
Juliana Canal
The Juliana Canal is a major Dutch shipping canal in the province of Limburg that runs roughly parallel to the river Meuse (Maas) to facilitate inland navigation and flood management.
- 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: San Luis Canal Target entity description: San Luis Canal is a major irrigation and water conveyance canal in California that transports water from the San Luis Reservoir to agricultural and urban users in the San Joaquin Valley.
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A.
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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B.
Küsten Canal
The Küsten Canal is a major shipping canal in northwestern Germany that links the Ems and Weser river systems and supports regional inland water transport.
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C.
Casiquiare canal
The Casiquiare canal is a rare natural river channel in Venezuela that uniquely links the Orinoco and Amazon river basins, allowing water to flow between two of South America’s largest river systems.
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D.
Tamiami Canal
Tamiami Canal is a major man-made waterway in South Florida that runs parallel to the Tamiami Trail, helping drain the Everglades and manage water flow around the Miami metropolitan area.
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E.
Juliana Canal
The Juliana Canal is a major Dutch shipping canal in the province of Limburg that runs roughly parallel to the river Meuse (Maas) to facilitate inland navigation and flood management.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
irrigation canal
ⓘ
water conveyance canal ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| connectedTo |
Delta-Mendota Canal
ⓘ
surface form:
Delta–Mendota Canal
San Luis Reservoir ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
State of California
|
| hasFunction |
irrigation water delivery
ⓘ
municipal water delivery ⓘ water transport ⓘ |
| infrastructureType | large-scale water infrastructure ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
California water distribution system
ⓘ
Central Valley Project ⓘ
surface form:
San Joaquin Valley irrigation network
|
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
San Joaquin Valley ⓘ San Joaquin Valley ⓘ
surface form:
San Joaquin Valley agricultural region
West Coast of the United States ⓘ
surface form:
United States West Coast
|
| managingAgency |
California Department of Water Resources
ⓘ
Bureau of Reclamation ⓘ
surface form:
United States Bureau of Reclamation
|
| partOf |
State Water Project
ⓘ
surface form:
California State Water Project
Central Valley Project ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
irrigation
ⓘ
municipal water supply ⓘ |
| region | Central Valley ⓘ |
| serves |
agricultural users
ⓘ
urban users ⓘ |
| servesRegion | San Joaquin Valley ⓘ |
| source | San Luis Reservoir ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| usedFor |
crop irrigation
ⓘ
drinking water supply ⓘ industrial water supply ⓘ |
| usesWaterFrom | San Luis Reservoir ⓘ |
| waterSourceProject |
State Water Project
ⓘ
surface form:
California State Water Project
Central Valley Project ⓘ |
| waterType | freshwater ⓘ |
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: San Luis Canal Description of subject: San Luis Canal is a major irrigation and water conveyance canal in California that transports water from the San Luis Reservoir to agricultural and urban users in the San Joaquin Valley.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.