Providence Water Supply Board
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The Providence Water Supply Board is the public utility responsible for managing and delivering drinking water to Providence, Rhode Island and several surrounding communities.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Providence Water Supply Board canonical | 1 |
| Providence metropolitan water system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10422296 — 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: Providence Water Supply Board Context triple: [Scituate Reservoir, operator, Providence Water Supply Board]
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A.
Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is a public agency responsible for providing wholesale water and sewer services, including drinking water supply and wastewater treatment, to communities in the Greater Boston area.
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B.
New York City Board of Water Supply
The New York City Board of Water Supply was a municipal agency responsible for planning and constructing the large-scale waterworks that expanded and secured New York City’s drinking water system in the early 20th century.
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C.
Philadelphia Water Department
The Philadelphia Water Department is the municipal agency responsible for providing drinking water, wastewater treatment, and stormwater management services for the city of Philadelphia.
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D.
Boston Public Works Department
The Boston Public Works Department is the municipal agency responsible for maintaining and improving the city’s streets, sidewalks, public infrastructure, and related services.
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E.
Middlesex Fells Reservation water system
The Middlesex Fells Reservation water system is a network of reservoirs and related infrastructure in Massachusetts that historically supplied drinking water and now supports recreation and conservation within the Middlesex Fells Reservation.
- 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: Providence Water Supply Board Target entity description: The Providence Water Supply Board is the public utility responsible for managing and delivering drinking water to Providence, Rhode Island and several surrounding communities.
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A.
Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is a public agency responsible for providing wholesale water and sewer services, including drinking water supply and wastewater treatment, to communities in the Greater Boston area.
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B.
New York City Board of Water Supply
The New York City Board of Water Supply was a municipal agency responsible for planning and constructing the large-scale waterworks that expanded and secured New York City’s drinking water system in the early 20th century.
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C.
Philadelphia Water Department
The Philadelphia Water Department is the municipal agency responsible for providing drinking water, wastewater treatment, and stormwater management services for the city of Philadelphia.
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D.
Boston Public Works Department
The Boston Public Works Department is the municipal agency responsible for maintaining and improving the city’s streets, sidewalks, public infrastructure, and related services.
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E.
Middlesex Fells Reservation water system
The Middlesex Fells Reservation water system is a network of reservoirs and related infrastructure in Massachusetts that historically supplied drinking water and now supports recreation and conservation within the Middlesex Fells Reservation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipal agency
ⓘ
public water utility ⓘ |
| compliesWith | Safe Drinking Water Act ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasLegalForm | municipal department ⓘ |
| hasPublicUtilityStatus | true ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfOrganization | non-profit public utility ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Providence, Rhode Island
ⓘ
linked to:
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
|
| industry | drinking water supply ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Providence metropolitan area
ⓘ
linked to:
Providence–Warwick metropolitan area
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Providence, Rhode Island
ⓘ
linked to:
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
|
| manages | Scituate Reservoir ⓘ |
| monitors | drinking water quality ⓘ |
| operates |
water distribution network
ⓘ
water transmission mains ⓘ water treatment facilities ⓘ |
| operatesInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Rhode Island ⓘ |
| owner | City of Providence ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | City of Providence ⓘ |
| providesServiceTo |
commercial customers
ⓘ
industrial customers ⓘ residential customers ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Greater Providence area
ⓘ
linked to:
Providence–Warwick metropolitan area
|
| regulates | municipal water use in its service area ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
water distribution infrastructure
ⓘ
water quality management ⓘ water system operations ⓘ water system planning ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| serves |
Cranston, Rhode Island
ⓘ
linked to:
Cranston
Johnston, Rhode Island ⓘ Lincoln, Rhode Island ⓘ North Providence, Rhode Island ⓘ
linked to:
North Providence
Providence, Rhode Island ⓘ
linked to:
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Scituate, Rhode Island ⓘ
linked to:
Town of Scituate, Rhode Island
Smithfield, Rhode Island ⓘ |
| serviceType |
potable water distribution
ⓘ
water system maintenance ⓘ water transmission ⓘ water treatment ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
Rhode Island Department of Health regulation
ⓘ
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency drinking water standards ⓘ |
| supplies | drinking water ⓘ |
| usesSource | Scituate Reservoir ⓘ |
| website | https://www.provwater.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: Providence Water Supply Board Description of subject: The Providence Water Supply Board is the public utility responsible for managing and delivering drinking water to Providence, Rhode Island and several surrounding communities.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Providence Water Supply Board