William Mulholland Memorial Fountain
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The William Mulholland Memorial Fountain is a landmark Los Angeles fountain dedicated to honoring the chief engineer who oversaw the construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and shaped the city’s modern water supply.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Mulholland Memorial Fountain canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13413943 — 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: William Mulholland Memorial Fountain Context triple: [William Mulholland, hasMemorial, William Mulholland Memorial Fountain]
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A.
Fisher Fountain
Fisher Fountain is a notable historic landmark and decorative water feature located in Hastings, Nebraska.
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B.
Arthur J. Will Memorial Fountain
The Arthur J. Will Memorial Fountain is a prominent, multi-tiered water feature and landmark in downtown Los Angeles known for its colorful nighttime light displays and interactive splash pad.
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C.
Bailey Fountain
Bailey Fountain is a prominent ornamental water fountain and sculptural centerpiece located in Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza.
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D.
Pulitzer Fountain
The Pulitzer Fountain is an ornate, early 20th-century Beaux-Arts fountain in Manhattan, New York City, known for its tiered basin and bronze statue of Pomona.
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E.
James Scott Memorial Fountain
The James Scott Memorial Fountain is a grand Beaux-Arts marble fountain on Detroit’s Belle Isle, renowned for its elaborate sculptures and dramatic water displays.
- 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: William Mulholland Memorial Fountain Target entity description: The William Mulholland Memorial Fountain is a landmark Los Angeles fountain dedicated to honoring the chief engineer who oversaw the construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and shaped the city’s modern water supply.
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A.
Fisher Fountain
Fisher Fountain is a notable historic landmark and decorative water feature located in Hastings, Nebraska.
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B.
Arthur J. Will Memorial Fountain
The Arthur J. Will Memorial Fountain is a prominent, multi-tiered water feature and landmark in downtown Los Angeles known for its colorful nighttime light displays and interactive splash pad.
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C.
Bailey Fountain
Bailey Fountain is a prominent ornamental water fountain and sculptural centerpiece located in Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza.
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D.
Pulitzer Fountain
The Pulitzer Fountain is an ornate, early 20th-century Beaux-Arts fountain in Manhattan, New York City, known for its tiered basin and bronze statue of Pomona.
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E.
James Scott Memorial Fountain
The James Scott Memorial Fountain is a grand Beaux-Arts marble fountain on Detroit’s Belle Isle, renowned for its elaborate sculptures and dramatic water displays.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fountain
ⓘ
landmark ⓘ memorial ⓘ monument ⓘ |
| category |
Fountains in California
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Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments NERFINISHED ⓘ Monuments and memorials in Los Angeles ⓘ |
| commemorates | Los Angeles Aqueduct NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dedicatedTo | William Mulholland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dedicationDate | 1940 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
central water jets
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circular basin ⓘ night illumination ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLighting | colored lights ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationBody | Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationNumber | 162 ⓘ |
| honorsField | water engineering ⓘ |
| honorsRole | chief engineer of the Los Angeles Aqueduct ⓘ |
| inception | 1940 ⓘ |
| locatedAtIntersection |
Los Feliz Boulevard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Riverside Drive NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
Los Angeles ⓘ Los Feliz neighborhood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Los Angeles Department of Water and Power NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | William Mulholland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | Los Angeles Department of Water and Power NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | City of Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Los Angeles water history ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: William Mulholland Memorial Fountain Description of subject: The William Mulholland Memorial Fountain is a landmark Los Angeles fountain dedicated to honoring the chief engineer who oversaw the construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and shaped the city’s modern water supply.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.