Northern Ireland Water
E801350
Northern Ireland Water is the government-owned company responsible for providing water and sewerage services across Northern Ireland.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Northern Ireland Water canonical | 4 |
| Belfast water supply infrastructure | 1 |
| Water Service (Northern Ireland) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9458675 — 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: Northern Ireland Water Context triple: [Department for Infrastructure (Northern Ireland), oversees, Northern Ireland Water]
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A.
Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water
Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water is a not-for-profit water and wastewater services company serving customers across Wales and parts of England.
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B.
Scottish Water
Scottish Water is the publicly owned company responsible for providing water and wastewater services across Scotland.
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C.
Severn Trent Water
Severn Trent Water is a major UK water and wastewater services company supplying and managing water resources across the Midlands and surrounding regions.
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D.
Lagan Canal Trust
Lagan Canal Trust is an organization dedicated to restoring, preserving, and promoting the historic Lagan Canal and its surrounding waterways and heritage.
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E.
United Utilities
United Utilities is a major British water and wastewater services company responsible for supplying and managing water infrastructure across North West England.
- 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: Northern Ireland Water Target entity description: Northern Ireland Water is the government-owned company responsible for providing water and sewerage services across Northern Ireland.
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A.
Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water
Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water is a not-for-profit water and wastewater services company serving customers across Wales and parts of England.
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B.
Scottish Water
Scottish Water is the publicly owned company responsible for providing water and wastewater services across Scotland.
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C.
Severn Trent Water
Severn Trent Water is a major UK water and wastewater services company supplying and managing water resources across the Midlands and surrounding regions.
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D.
Lagan Canal Trust
Lagan Canal Trust is an organization dedicated to restoring, preserving, and promoting the historic Lagan Canal and its surrounding waterways and heritage.
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E.
United Utilities
United Utilities is a major British water and wastewater services company responsible for supplying and managing water infrastructure across North West England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government-owned company
ⓘ
water and sewerage utility ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | NI Water ⓘ |
| compliesWith |
EU water quality directives
ⓘ
UK drinking water quality standards ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fundingModel | publicly funded utility ⓘ |
| hasCustomerType |
commercial users
ⓘ
households ⓘ industrial users ⓘ |
| hasMandate |
to provide effective wastewater services
ⓘ
to provide safe, clean drinking water ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfEmployees | over 1000 ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Belfast
ⓘ
Northern Ireland ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| inception | 2007 ⓘ |
| industry |
sewerage services
ⓘ
wastewater treatment ⓘ water supply ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| legalForm | government-owned company ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
UTC+01:00
ⓘ
UTC±00:00 ⓘ |
| owner | Department for Infrastructure (Northern Ireland) ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Department for Infrastructure (Northern Ireland) ⓘ |
| partOf | water industry in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Water Service (Northern Ireland)
ⓘ
linked to:
Northern Ireland Water
|
| providesService |
sewer maintenance
ⓘ
storm water management ⓘ water distribution ⓘ water treatment ⓘ |
| publicOwnership | 100% ⓘ |
| regulator |
Drinking Water Inspectorate (Northern Ireland)
ⓘ
linked to:
Drinking Water Inspectorate
Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation ⓘ
linked to:
Utility Regulator Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland Environment Agency ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
drinking water supply in Northern Ireland
ⓘ
sewerage infrastructure in Northern Ireland ⓘ wastewater collection in Northern Ireland ⓘ wastewater treatment in Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| servesRegion | Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
business customers
ⓘ
domestic customers ⓘ public sector customers ⓘ |
| website | https://www.niwater.com/ ⓘ |
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: Northern Ireland Water Description of subject: Northern Ireland Water is the government-owned company responsible for providing water and sewerage services across Northern Ireland.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Northern Ireland Water
linked to: Northern Ireland Water