Modesto Irrigation District
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Modesto Irrigation District is a California public agency that provides irrigation water and electric power services to agricultural and urban customers in and around the city of Modesto.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Modesto Irrigation District canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5573774 — 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: Modesto Irrigation District Context triple: [La Grange Dam, ownedBy, Modesto Irrigation District]
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A.
Turlock Irrigation District
Turlock Irrigation District is a California public irrigation and electric utility agency that supplies water for agriculture and power to communities in and around Turlock in the San Joaquin Valley.
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B.
Tehama-Colusa Canal Authority
The Tehama-Colusa Canal Authority is a regional water management agency in California responsible for operating and maintaining the Tehama-Colusa Canal to deliver irrigation water to participating districts.
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C.
Friant Water Authority
Friant Water Authority is a California-based public agency that manages and delivers irrigation and municipal water supplies from the federal Central Valley Project to agricultural and urban users along the Friant Division.
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D.
Contra Costa Water District
Contra Costa Water District is a public water agency in California that supplies drinking and irrigation water to communities in and around Contra Costa County.
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E.
Mojave Water Agency
The Mojave Water Agency is a regional water management and planning agency in Southern California responsible for securing, conserving, and overseeing water resources for communities in the Mojave Desert region.
- 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: Modesto Irrigation District Target entity description: Modesto Irrigation District is a California public agency that provides irrigation water and electric power services to agricultural and urban customers in and around the city of Modesto.
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A.
Turlock Irrigation District
Turlock Irrigation District is a California public irrigation and electric utility agency that supplies water for agriculture and power to communities in and around Turlock in the San Joaquin Valley.
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B.
Tehama-Colusa Canal Authority
The Tehama-Colusa Canal Authority is a regional water management agency in California responsible for operating and maintaining the Tehama-Colusa Canal to deliver irrigation water to participating districts.
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C.
Friant Water Authority
Friant Water Authority is a California-based public agency that manages and delivers irrigation and municipal water supplies from the federal Central Valley Project to agricultural and urban users along the Friant Division.
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D.
Contra Costa Water District
Contra Costa Water District is a public water agency in California that supplies drinking and irrigation water to communities in and around Contra Costa County.
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E.
Mojave Water Agency
The Mojave Water Agency is a regional water management and planning agency in Southern California responsible for securing, conserving, and overseeing water resources for communities in the Mojave Desert region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
electric utility
ⓘ
irrigation district ⓘ public utility ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| customerType |
agricultural customers
ⓘ
urban customers ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1887 ⓘ |
| governance | public agency ⓘ |
| gridConnection | California electrical grid ⓘ |
| hasBoard | elected board of directors ⓘ |
| hasHeadquartersLocation |
Modesto, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Modesto
|
| hasHydroelectricGeneration | yes ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
electric power industry
ⓘ
water supply and irrigation ⓘ |
| hasMotto | publicly owned electric utility and irrigation district ⓘ |
| hasRenewableEnergyPortfolio | yes ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.mid.org/ ⓘ |
| inception | 1887 ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
San Joaquin Valley
ⓘ
Stanislaus County, California ⓘ
linked to:
Stanislaus County
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | independent special district ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Modesto, California ⓘ
linked to:
Modesto
Stanislaus County, California ⓘ
linked to:
Stanislaus County
|
| organizationType | not-for-profit utility ⓘ |
| ownedBy | ratepayers ⓘ |
| partOf | California public power utilities ⓘ |
| providesService |
retail electric service
ⓘ
surface water deliveries for irrigation ⓘ |
| regulatedBy |
State of California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| sector |
agricultural irrigation
ⓘ
public power ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
city of Modesto
ⓘ
linked to:
Modesto
parts of Stanislaus County ⓘ surrounding areas of Modesto ⓘ |
| serviceType |
electric power supply
ⓘ
irrigation water supply ⓘ |
| shortName | MID ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| usesResource | Tuolumne River water ⓘ |
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: Modesto Irrigation District Description of subject: Modesto Irrigation District is a California public agency that provides irrigation water and electric power services to agricultural and urban customers in and around the city of Modesto.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.