Peak Forest Canal
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The Peak Forest Canal is a historic narrow canal in northwest England that was built to transport limestone from Derbyshire and now serves as a scenic route for leisure boating and walking.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peak Forest Canal canonical | 35 |
| Peak Forest Canal lock system | 1 |
| Peak Forest Canal network | 1 |
| Peak Forest Canal water supply system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T795580 — 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: Peak Forest Canal Context triple: [Pennine waterways, hasPart, Peak Forest Canal]
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A.
Huddersfield Narrow Canal
The Huddersfield Narrow Canal is a restored trans-Pennine waterway in northern England, noted for its dramatic scenery and the long Standedge Tunnel that carries it beneath the Pennines.
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B.
Huddersfield Broad Canal
Huddersfield Broad Canal is a short, wide-beam canal in West Yorkshire, England, linking Huddersfield to the Calder and Hebble Navigation as part of the region’s historic industrial waterway network.
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C.
Grand Union Canal
The Grand Union Canal is a major English waterway that links London to Birmingham, forming the longest canal in the UK and serving both leisure boating and historical industrial transport.
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D.
Bridgewater Canal
The Bridgewater Canal is a historic English canal, often regarded as the first modern canal in Britain, which played a key role in the early Industrial Revolution by linking coal mines to the growing city of Manchester.
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Trent and Mersey Canal
The Trent and Mersey Canal is a historic English waterway running across the Midlands, built in the 18th century to link the River Trent with the River Mersey and support industrial transport, particularly for pottery and other goods.
- 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: Peak Forest Canal Target entity description: The Peak Forest Canal is a historic narrow canal in northwest England that was built to transport limestone from Derbyshire and now serves as a scenic route for leisure boating and walking.
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A.
Huddersfield Narrow Canal
The Huddersfield Narrow Canal is a restored trans-Pennine waterway in northern England, noted for its dramatic scenery and the long Standedge Tunnel that carries it beneath the Pennines.
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B.
Huddersfield Broad Canal
Huddersfield Broad Canal is a short, wide-beam canal in West Yorkshire, England, linking Huddersfield to the Calder and Hebble Navigation as part of the region’s historic industrial waterway network.
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C.
Grand Union Canal
The Grand Union Canal is a major English waterway that links London to Birmingham, forming the longest canal in the UK and serving both leisure boating and historical industrial transport.
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D.
Bridgewater Canal
The Bridgewater Canal is a historic English canal, often regarded as the first modern canal in Britain, which played a key role in the early Industrial Revolution by linking coal mines to the growing city of Manchester.
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E.
Trent and Mersey Canal
The Trent and Mersey Canal is a historic English waterway running across the Midlands, built in the 18th century to link the River Trent with the River Mersey and support industrial transport, particularly for pottery and other goods.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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
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Input
Subject: Peak Forest Canal Description of subject: The Peak Forest Canal is a historic narrow canal in northwest England that was built to transport limestone from Derbyshire and now serves as a scenic route for leisure boating and walking.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Peak Forest Canal
subject linked to:
Marple Hall (demolished)
linked to: Peak Forest Canal
linked to: Peak Forest Canal