Montlake Cut
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Montlake Cut is a man-made canal in Seattle that connects Lake Washington to Lake Union as part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Montlake Cut canonical | 23 |
| Montlake Cut crossing | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1154847 — 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: Montlake Cut Context triple: [Lake Washington, outflow, Montlake Cut]
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Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal is a man-made waterway in Illinois that reverses the flow of the Chicago River, diverts wastewater away from Lake Michigan, and serves as a key navigation link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River system.
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Riverway
Riverway is a linear park and waterway in Boston that forms part of the Emerald Necklace, offering scenic green space and recreational paths near the Longwood Medical Area.
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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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Alster
The Alster is a river and series of lakes in Hamburg, Germany, that form a central recreational and scenic landmark of the city.
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E.
Chicago River
The Chicago River is a historically significant waterway in Chicago known for its engineered reversal of flow, its role in the city’s development, and its iconic green dyeing on St. Patrick’s Day.
- 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: Montlake Cut Target entity description: Montlake Cut is a man-made canal in Seattle that connects Lake Washington to Lake Union as part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal.
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A.
Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal is a man-made waterway in Illinois that reverses the flow of the Chicago River, diverts wastewater away from Lake Michigan, and serves as a key navigation link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River system.
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B.
Riverway
Riverway is a linear park and waterway in Boston that forms part of the Emerald Necklace, offering scenic green space and recreational paths near the Longwood Medical Area.
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C.
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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D.
Alster
The Alster is a river and series of lakes in Hamburg, Germany, that form a central recreational and scenic landmark of the city.
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E.
Chicago River
The Chicago River is a historically significant waterway in Chicago known for its engineered reversal of flow, its role in the city’s development, and its iconic green dyeing on St. Patrick’s Day.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Montlake Cut Description of subject: Montlake Cut is a man-made canal in Seattle that connects Lake Washington to Lake Union as part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Montlake Cut