Wey Navigation
E139935
The Wey Navigation is one of England’s earliest commercial inland waterways, a historically significant canalized route that enabled barge traffic between Guildford and the River Thames.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wey Navigation canonical | 4 |
| Wey Navigation at Byfleet | 1 |
| Wey Navigation system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1219547 — 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: Wey Navigation Context triple: [River Wey, hasCanal, Wey Navigation]
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A.
Douglas Navigation
Douglas Navigation was an 18th-century canalised waterway in Lancashire, England, created by improving the River Douglas to allow the transport of coal and other goods before being superseded by later canal developments.
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B.
Chelsea Creek
Chelsea Creek is a tidal waterway in the Boston area that serves as an important industrial and shipping channel between Chelsea and East Boston, Massachusetts.
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C.
Weir
Weir is a small village in Lancashire, England, situated within the Rossendale Valley and known for its moorland surroundings and former industrial heritage.
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D.
River Aire
The River Aire is a major river in Yorkshire, England, flowing through industrial and urban centers such as Leeds and contributing significantly to the region’s navigation and waterways network.
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Aire and Calder Navigation
The Aire and Calder Navigation is a major canalised river and waterway in West Yorkshire, England, historically important for transporting coal and goods between the industrial towns of the Pennines and the Humber estuary.
- 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: Wey Navigation Target entity description: The Wey Navigation is one of England’s earliest commercial inland waterways, a historically significant canalized route that enabled barge traffic between Guildford and the River Thames.
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A.
Douglas Navigation
Douglas Navigation was an 18th-century canalised waterway in Lancashire, England, created by improving the River Douglas to allow the transport of coal and other goods before being superseded by later canal developments.
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B.
Chelsea Creek
Chelsea Creek is a tidal waterway in the Boston area that serves as an important industrial and shipping channel between Chelsea and East Boston, Massachusetts.
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C.
Weir
Weir is a small village in Lancashire, England, situated within the Rossendale Valley and known for its moorland surroundings and former industrial heritage.
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D.
River Aire
The River Aire is a major river in Yorkshire, England, flowing through industrial and urban centers such as Leeds and contributing significantly to the region’s navigation and waterways network.
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E.
Aire and Calder Navigation
The Aire and Calder Navigation is a major canalised river and waterway in West Yorkshire, England, historically important for transporting coal and goods between the industrial towns of the Pennines and the Humber estuary.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal
ⓘ
inland waterway ⓘ navigation canal ⓘ |
| builder | Sir Richard Weston ⓘ |
| cargoHistoricallyCarried |
building materials
ⓘ
coal ⓘ corn ⓘ gunpowder ⓘ timber ⓘ |
| connectedCity |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| connectedWaterway | Godalming Navigation ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
River Thames
ⓘ
linked to:
Thames
|
| constructionStart | 1651 ⓘ |
| constructionType | canalised river ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| currentUse |
angling
ⓘ
recreational boating ⓘ towpath walking ⓘ |
| endPoint | Weybridge ⓘ |
| engineeringFeature | artificial cuts bypassing river shallows ⓘ |
| era | 17th century ⓘ |
| follows | River Wey ⓘ |
| hasDesignation | conservation area in parts ⓘ |
| hasStructure |
bridges
ⓘ
locks ⓘ weirs ⓘ |
| hasTowpath | yes ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic waterway ⓘ |
| historicalRole | facilitated trade between Surrey and London ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | one of England’s earliest commercial inland waterways ⓘ |
| lengthApprox | about 15 miles ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Surrey ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Guildford
ⓘ
Weybridge ⓘ |
| lockCount | multiple pound locks ⓘ |
| management | maintained for conservation and leisure ⓘ |
| navigationStatus | navigable for pleasure craft ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1653 ⓘ |
| operator | National Trust ⓘ |
| originalPurpose | transport of goods between Guildford and London ⓘ |
| owner | National Trust ⓘ |
| partOf |
British canal network
ⓘ
linked to:
Inland waterway network of England
|
| region | South East England ⓘ |
| startPoint | Guildford ⓘ |
| terminus |
Guildford
ⓘ
River Thames at Weybridge ⓘ |
| use | commercial barge traffic ⓘ |
| waterwaySystem |
River Wey Navigations
ⓘ
linked to:
River Wey Navigation
|
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: Wey Navigation Description of subject: The Wey Navigation is one of England’s earliest commercial inland waterways, a historically significant canalized route that enabled barge traffic between Guildford and the River Thames.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Wey Navigation
linked to: Wey Navigation