Arizona Canal
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The Arizona Canal is a major man-made waterway in the Phoenix metropolitan area that delivers irrigation and municipal water while shaping urban development and recreational corridors such as the Scottsdale Waterfront.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arizona Canal canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4746541 — 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: Arizona Canal Context triple: [Scottsdale Waterfront, follows, Arizona Canal]
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A.
Madera Canal
Madera Canal is an irrigation and water-conveyance canal in California’s Central Valley that delivers San Joaquin River water to agricultural lands and communities in Madera County.
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B.
Friant-Kern Canal
The Friant-Kern Canal is a major irrigation and water conveyance canal in California’s San Joaquin Valley that delivers diverted San Joaquin River water to farms and communities across the southern Central Valley.
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C.
San Luis Canal
San Luis Canal is a major irrigation and water conveyance canal in California that transports water from the San Luis Reservoir to agricultural and urban users in the San Joaquin Valley.
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D.
Los Angeles Aqueduct
The Los Angeles Aqueduct is a major early-20th-century water conveyance system that transports water from California’s Owens Valley to the city of Los Angeles, profoundly shaping the region’s growth and sparking enduring environmental and political controversies.
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E.
Tehama-Colusa Canal
The Tehama-Colusa Canal is a major irrigation and water conveyance canal in California’s Sacramento Valley that delivers Central Valley Project water to agricultural lands and communities.
- 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: Arizona Canal Target entity description: The Arizona Canal is a major man-made waterway in the Phoenix metropolitan area that delivers irrigation and municipal water while shaping urban development and recreational corridors such as the Scottsdale Waterfront.
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A.
Madera Canal
Madera Canal is an irrigation and water-conveyance canal in California’s Central Valley that delivers San Joaquin River water to agricultural lands and communities in Madera County.
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B.
Friant-Kern Canal
The Friant-Kern Canal is a major irrigation and water conveyance canal in California’s San Joaquin Valley that delivers diverted San Joaquin River water to farms and communities across the southern Central Valley.
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C.
San Luis Canal
San Luis Canal is a major irrigation and water conveyance canal in California that transports water from the San Luis Reservoir to agricultural and urban users in the San Joaquin Valley.
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D.
Los Angeles Aqueduct
The Los Angeles Aqueduct is a major early-20th-century water conveyance system that transports water from California’s Owens Valley to the city of Los Angeles, profoundly shaping the region’s growth and sparking enduring environmental and political controversies.
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E.
Tehama-Colusa Canal
The Tehama-Colusa Canal is a major irrigation and water conveyance canal in California’s Sacramento Valley that delivers Central Valley Project water to agricultural lands and communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
irrigation canal
ⓘ
waterway ⓘ |
| builtBy | Arizona Canal Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Arizona Canal Diversion Channel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Crosscut Canal NERFINISHED ⓘ Grand Canal NERFINISHED ⓘ South Canal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructionEnd | 1885 ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 1883 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| forms |
recreational corridor in Phoenix
ⓘ
recreational corridor in Scottsdale ⓘ |
| hasBasinCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
bike paths
ⓘ
bridges ⓘ multi-use paths ⓘ pedestrian paths ⓘ water control structures ⓘ |
| hasMouth | Arizona Canal Diversion Channel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRecreation |
cycling
ⓘ
running ⓘ walking ⓘ |
| hasUse |
flood control
ⓘ
landscape irrigation ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
enabled agricultural development in Salt River Valley
ⓘ
supported growth of Phoenix ⓘ supported growth of Scottsdale ⓘ |
| influenced |
Scottsdale Waterfront development
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
urban development in Phoenix metropolitan area ⓘ |
| length | approximately 38 miles ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Maricopa County, Arizona
ⓘ
Phoenix metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manMade | true ⓘ |
| near |
Downtown Scottsdale
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scottsdale Waterfront NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | Salt River Project NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Salt River Project canal system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesNear | Paradise Valley, Arizona NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Glendale, Arizona
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Peoria, Arizona NERFINISHED ⓘ Phoenix, Arizona NERFINISHED ⓘ Scottsdale, Arizona NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
irrigation water delivery
ⓘ
municipal water delivery ⓘ |
| state | Arizona ⓘ |
| usedFor |
agricultural irrigation
ⓘ
recreation ⓘ stormwater management ⓘ urban water supply ⓘ |
| waterSource |
Salt River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Verde River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Arizona Canal Description of subject: The Arizona Canal is a major man-made waterway in the Phoenix metropolitan area that delivers irrigation and municipal water while shaping urban development and recreational corridors such as the Scottsdale Waterfront.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.