Modesto Main Canal
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Modesto Main Canal is an irrigation waterway in California’s Central Valley that delivers Tuolumne River water to agricultural lands and communities in the Modesto area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Modesto Main Canal canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5573789 — 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: Modesto Main Canal Context triple: [La Grange Dam, feedsCanal, Modesto Main Canal]
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A.
Turlock Main Canal
Turlock Main Canal is a major irrigation canal in California’s Central Valley that delivers water from the Tuolumne River to agricultural lands in the Turlock Irrigation District.
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B.
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.
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C.
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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D.
Contra Costa Canal
The Contra Costa Canal is a man-made waterway in California that delivers irrigation and municipal water from the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta to communities in Contra Costa County.
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E.
Delta–Mendota Canal intake
The Delta–Mendota Canal intake is the headworks facility in California’s Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta where water is diverted into the Delta–Mendota Canal for delivery to agricultural and other users in the San Joaquin Valley.
- 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: Modesto Main Canal Target entity description: Modesto Main Canal is an irrigation waterway in California’s Central Valley that delivers Tuolumne River water to agricultural lands and communities in the Modesto area.
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A.
Turlock Main Canal
Turlock Main Canal is a major irrigation canal in California’s Central Valley that delivers water from the Tuolumne River to agricultural lands in the Turlock Irrigation District.
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B.
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.
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C.
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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D.
Contra Costa Canal
The Contra Costa Canal is a man-made waterway in California that delivers irrigation and municipal water from the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta to communities in Contra Costa County.
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E.
Delta–Mendota Canal intake
The Delta–Mendota Canal intake is the headworks facility in California’s Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta where water is diverted into the Delta–Mendota Canal for delivery to agricultural and other users in the San Joaquin Valley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
irrigation canal
ⓘ
waterway ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
agriculture in Stanislaus County
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irrigated farming in the Modesto area ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| flowsThrough | rural areas around Modesto ⓘ |
| function |
deliver surface water to agricultural lands
ⓘ
deliver surface water to communities ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
support agricultural production
ⓘ
support local communities’ water needs ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Central Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanislaus County, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInHydrologicRegion | San Joaquin River hydrologic region ⓘ |
| locatedInValley | San Joaquin Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInWatershed | Tuolumne River watershed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | city of Modesto ⓘ |
| partOf |
Central Valley irrigation infrastructure
ⓘ
Tuolumne River irrigation system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed | Modesto area ⓘ |
| serves | Modesto, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| use |
irrigation
ⓘ
municipal water supply ⓘ |
| waterSource | Tuolumne River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| waterType | surface water ⓘ |
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: Modesto Main Canal Description of subject: Modesto Main Canal is an irrigation waterway in California’s Central Valley that delivers Tuolumne River water to agricultural lands and communities in the Modesto area.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.