Division of Water Rights
E638152
The Division of Water Rights is the branch of California’s water regulatory system responsible for administering and enforcing the state’s water rights permitting and licensing programs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Division of Water Rights canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7053844 — 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: Division of Water Rights Context triple: [California State Water Resources Control Board, supervises, Division of Water Rights]
-
A.
Division of Water Resource Management
The Division of Water Resource Management is a program within Florida’s environmental regulatory framework that oversees the protection, regulation, and management of the state’s water resources, including water quality, supply, and aquatic ecosystems.
-
B.
Division of Water Resources
The Division of Water Resources is a North Carolina state agency unit responsible for managing, protecting, and regulating the state’s surface and groundwater resources.
-
C.
Division of Water
The Division of Water is a unit within the Indiana Department of Natural Resources responsible for managing the state’s water resources, including floodplain management, water rights, and hydrologic monitoring.
-
D.
Division of Water
The Division of Water is a specialized unit within New York State’s environmental agency responsible for managing, protecting, and regulating the state’s water resources.
-
E.
Water Division
Water Division is a branch of the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation responsible for managing and protecting the state’s water resources and water quality.
- 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: Division of Water Rights Target entity description: The Division of Water Rights is the branch of California’s water regulatory system responsible for administering and enforcing the state’s water rights permitting and licensing programs.
-
A.
Division of Water Resource Management
The Division of Water Resource Management is a program within Florida’s environmental regulatory framework that oversees the protection, regulation, and management of the state’s water resources, including water quality, supply, and aquatic ecosystems.
-
B.
Division of Water Resources
The Division of Water Resources is a North Carolina state agency unit responsible for managing, protecting, and regulating the state’s surface and groundwater resources.
-
C.
Division of Water
The Division of Water is a unit within the Indiana Department of Natural Resources responsible for managing the state’s water resources, including floodplain management, water rights, and hydrologic monitoring.
-
D.
Division of Water
The Division of Water is a specialized unit within New York State’s environmental agency responsible for managing, protecting, and regulating the state’s water resources.
-
E.
Water Division
Water Division is a branch of the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation responsible for managing and protecting the state’s water resources and water quality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
ⓘ
water management authority ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
California Department of Water Resources
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
federal water management agencies ⓘ regional water quality control boards ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| goal |
orderly allocation of California’s water resources
ⓘ
protection of public trust resources ⓘ protection of senior water rights ⓘ |
| hasHeadquartersLocation | Sacramento, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
State of California
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalAuthority | California Water Code NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| parentAgency | California Environmental Protection Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | State Water Resources Control Board NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regulates |
appropriative rights to surface water
ⓘ
diversions of surface water in California ⓘ some groundwater extractions hydraulically connected to surface water ⓘ storage of surface water in California ⓘ |
| regulatoryArea |
appropriative water rights
ⓘ
surface water use ⓘ water rights ⓘ water rights licensing ⓘ water rights permitting ⓘ |
| responsibility |
administering water right permits
ⓘ
conducting water right compliance investigations ⓘ enforcing terms and conditions of water right licenses ⓘ enforcing terms and conditions of water right permits ⓘ evaluating water availability for new appropriations ⓘ implementing State Water Board water right decisions and orders ⓘ issuing water right licenses ⓘ maintaining records of water rights ⓘ processing water right applications ⓘ |
| sector |
environmental regulation
ⓘ
natural resources management ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| subjectTo |
California open meeting laws
ⓘ
California public records laws ⓘ |
| supervisesProcess |
temporary urgency change petitions
ⓘ
water right change petitions ⓘ water right transfers ⓘ |
| usesPrinciple |
prior appropriation doctrine
ⓘ
reasonable use doctrine ⓘ |
| website | https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/ ⓘ |
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: Division of Water Rights Description of subject: The Division of Water Rights is the branch of California’s water regulatory system responsible for administering and enforcing the state’s water rights permitting and licensing programs.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.