Colorado River Storage and Regulation System
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The Colorado River Storage and Regulation System is a network of dams, reservoirs, and related infrastructure designed to manage, store, and control the flow of the Colorado River for water supply, flood control, and hydroelectric power generation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Colorado River Storage Project | 5 |
| Colorado River Storage and Regulation System canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3209699 — 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: Colorado River Storage and Regulation System Context triple: [Davis Dam, partOf, Colorado River Storage and Regulation System]
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A.
Colorado-Big Thompson Project
The Colorado-Big Thompson Project is a major transbasin water diversion and storage system in Colorado that delivers Colorado River water to the arid eastern plains for agriculture, cities, and industry.
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B.
Columbia Basin Project
The Columbia Basin Project is a large-scale irrigation and hydroelectric development in central Washington State that distributes water and power from the Grand Coulee Dam to support agriculture, industry, and communities across the region.
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C.
Klamath Project
The Klamath Project is a major federal water management and irrigation system in southern Oregon and northern California that supplies water to agriculture, wildlife refuges, and communities in the Klamath Basin.
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D.
Truckee-Carson Project
The Truckee-Carson Project is a major U.S. federal water management and irrigation initiative in western Nevada that diverts and distributes water from the Truckee and Carson rivers to support agriculture and regional development.
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E.
Glen Canyon Dam
Glen Canyon Dam is a massive concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River in northern Arizona that created Lake Powell and plays a major role in water storage and hydroelectric power generation in the American Southwest.
- 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: Colorado River Storage and Regulation System Target entity description: The Colorado River Storage and Regulation System is a network of dams, reservoirs, and related infrastructure designed to manage, store, and control the flow of the Colorado River for water supply, flood control, and hydroelectric power generation.
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A.
Colorado-Big Thompson Project
The Colorado-Big Thompson Project is a major transbasin water diversion and storage system in Colorado that delivers Colorado River water to the arid eastern plains for agriculture, cities, and industry.
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B.
Columbia Basin Project
The Columbia Basin Project is a large-scale irrigation and hydroelectric development in central Washington State that distributes water and power from the Grand Coulee Dam to support agriculture, industry, and communities across the region.
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C.
Klamath Project
The Klamath Project is a major federal water management and irrigation system in southern Oregon and northern California that supplies water to agriculture, wildlife refuges, and communities in the Klamath Basin.
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D.
Truckee-Carson Project
The Truckee-Carson Project is a major U.S. federal water management and irrigation initiative in western Nevada that diverts and distributes water from the Truckee and Carson rivers to support agriculture and regional development.
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E.
Glen Canyon Dam
Glen Canyon Dam is a massive concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River in northern Arizona that created Lake Powell and plays a major role in water storage and hydroelectric power generation in the American Southwest.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dam and reservoir system
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river regulation system ⓘ water resources infrastructure system ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
hydropower markets in the western United States
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interstate water management institutions ⓘ water rights compacts in the Colorado River Basin ⓘ |
| beneficiary |
agricultural users in the Colorado River Basin
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hydropower consumers in the western United States ⓘ industrial water users in the Colorado River Basin ⓘ municipal water users in the Colorado River Basin ⓘ |
| componentType |
canal
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dam ⓘ diversion works ⓘ hydroelectric power plant ⓘ intake structure ⓘ outlet works ⓘ reservoir ⓘ spillway ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| engineeringDiscipline |
civil engineering
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hydraulic engineering ⓘ water resources engineering ⓘ |
| environmentalConcern |
fish and wildlife habitat alteration
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greenhouse gas emissions from reservoirs ⓘ water quality changes in reservoirs and downstream reaches ⓘ |
| function |
attenuate flood peaks
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regulate downstream releases ⓘ store spring runoff for later use ⓘ |
| impact |
changes in downstream aquatic and riparian ecosystems
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changes in downstream sediment transport ⓘ creation of large artificial reservoirs ⓘ modification of natural flow regime of the Colorado River ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Colorado River Basin ⓘ |
| manages | seasonal variability of Colorado River flows ⓘ |
| purpose |
flood control
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hydroelectric power generation ⓘ industrial water supply support ⓘ irrigation support ⓘ municipal water supply support ⓘ river flow regulation ⓘ water storage ⓘ water supply ⓘ |
| regulates |
timing of water deliveries to downstream states
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volume of water released from storage reservoirs ⓘ |
| riverManaged | Colorado River ⓘ |
| supports |
drought management in the Colorado River Basin
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interstate water allocation agreements ⓘ long-distance water conveyance systems ⓘ navigation and river operations management ⓘ |
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: Colorado River Storage and Regulation System Description of subject: The Colorado River Storage and Regulation System is a network of dams, reservoirs, and related infrastructure designed to manage, store, and control the flow of the Colorado River for water supply, flood control, and hydroelectric power generation.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Colorado River Storage Project
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Colorado River Storage Project
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Colorado River Storage Project
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Colorado River Storage Project
this entity surface form:
Colorado River Storage Project