Nevada Division of Water Resources
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The Nevada Division of Water Resources is the state agency responsible for managing, allocating, and overseeing the use of Nevada’s water resources, including rivers, groundwater, and water rights administration.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nevada Division of Water Resources canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1164357 — 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: Nevada Division of Water Resources Context triple: [Carson River, regulatedBy, Nevada Division of Water Resources]
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A.
California Department of Water Resources
The California Department of Water Resources is a state agency responsible for managing California’s water resources, including planning, conservation, flood control, and operation of major water infrastructure.
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B.
Nevada Division of State Parks
The Nevada Division of State Parks is the state agency responsible for preserving, managing, and providing public access to Nevada’s system of state parks and recreational areas.
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C.
Bureau of Reclamation
The Bureau of Reclamation is a U.S. federal agency responsible for managing water resources and operating dams, reservoirs, and irrigation projects primarily in the western United States.
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D.
Government of Nevada
The Government of Nevada is the state-level governing authority of Nevada, encompassing its executive, legislative, and judicial branches that administer and enforce state laws and policies.
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E.
Nevada Department of Transportation
The Nevada Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Nevada’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
- 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: Nevada Division of Water Resources Target entity description: The Nevada Division of Water Resources is the state agency responsible for managing, allocating, and overseeing the use of Nevada’s water resources, including rivers, groundwater, and water rights administration.
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A.
California Department of Water Resources
The California Department of Water Resources is a state agency responsible for managing California’s water resources, including planning, conservation, flood control, and operation of major water infrastructure.
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B.
Nevada Division of State Parks
The Nevada Division of State Parks is the state agency responsible for preserving, managing, and providing public access to Nevada’s system of state parks and recreational areas.
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C.
Bureau of Reclamation
The Bureau of Reclamation is a U.S. federal agency responsible for managing water resources and operating dams, reservoirs, and irrigation projects primarily in the western United States.
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D.
Government of Nevada
The Government of Nevada is the state-level governing authority of Nevada, encompassing its executive, legislative, and judicial branches that administer and enforce state laws and policies.
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E.
Nevada Department of Transportation
The Nevada Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Nevada’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
state government agency
ⓘ
water management agency ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Nevada irrigation districts
ⓘ
Nevada Municipal Courts ⓘ
surface form:
Nevada local governments
Nevada tribal governments ⓘ federal water agencies ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| employs |
engineers
ⓘ
hydrologists ⓘ water rights specialists ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Carson City
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surface form:
Carson City, Nevada
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| jurisdiction |
Nevada
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Nevada
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| language | English ⓘ |
| legalAuthority | Nevada Revised Statutes ⓘ |
| oversees |
Nevada’s groundwater resources
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Nevada’s rivers ⓘ Nevada’s water rights system ⓘ |
| parentAgency | Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources ⓘ |
| partOf |
Government of Nevada
ⓘ
surface form:
Nevada state government
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| regulates |
appropriation of public waters in Nevada
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changes in manner of use for water rights in Nevada ⓘ changes in place of use for water rights in Nevada ⓘ changes in point of diversion for water rights in Nevada ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
administration of water rights in Nevada
ⓘ
allocation of groundwater in Nevada ⓘ allocation of surface water in Nevada ⓘ change applications for existing water rights in Nevada ⓘ dam safety regulation in Nevada ⓘ enforcement of Nevada water law ⓘ floodplain management coordination in Nevada ⓘ hydrographic basin designations in Nevada ⓘ management of Nevada’s water resources ⓘ monitoring of groundwater levels in Nevada ⓘ monitoring of surface water flows in Nevada ⓘ regulation of groundwater wells in Nevada ⓘ review of applications for new water rights in Nevada ⓘ water resource planning in Nevada ⓘ water rights permitting in Nevada ⓘ water rights records in Nevada ⓘ water use measurement and reporting in Nevada ⓘ |
| sector | water resources management ⓘ |
| state | Nevada ⓘ |
| subjectTo | Nevada water law doctrine of prior appropriation ⓘ |
| uses | hydrologic data for water management ⓘ |
| website | http://water.nv.gov/ ⓘ |
| worksOn |
drought planning in Nevada
ⓘ
water conservation issues in Nevada ⓘ |
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: Nevada Division of Water Resources Description of subject: The Nevada Division of Water Resources is the state agency responsible for managing, allocating, and overseeing the use of Nevada’s water resources, including rivers, groundwater, and water rights administration.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.