Meelick Lock
E143272
Meelick Lock is a historic navigation lock on Ireland’s River Shannon that facilitates boat passage along the waterway.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meelick Lock canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1216325 — 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: Meelick Lock Context triple: [River Shannon, hasLock, Meelick Lock]
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A.
Athlone Lock
Athlone Lock is a navigation lock on the River Shannon in Athlone, Ireland, that enables boats to pass through differing water levels along the river.
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B.
Barton Lock
Barton Lock is a lock on the Manchester Ship Canal that enables vessels to navigate changes in water level along this major industrial waterway in northwest England.
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C.
Kirkstead Lock
Kirkstead Lock is a navigation lock on the River Witham in Lincolnshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
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D.
Latchford Lock
Latchford Lock is a major lock on the Manchester Ship Canal in Warrington, England, enabling large vessels to navigate between the River Mersey and the inland port network.
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E.
Irlam Lock
Irlam Lock is a lock on the Manchester Ship Canal in Greater Manchester, England, that helps manage vessel traffic and water levels along the waterway.
- 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: Meelick Lock Target entity description: Meelick Lock is a historic navigation lock on Ireland’s River Shannon that facilitates boat passage along the waterway.
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A.
Athlone Lock
Athlone Lock is a navigation lock on the River Shannon in Athlone, Ireland, that enables boats to pass through differing water levels along the river.
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B.
Barton Lock
Barton Lock is a lock on the Manchester Ship Canal that enables vessels to navigate changes in water level along this major industrial waterway in northwest England.
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C.
Kirkstead Lock
Kirkstead Lock is a navigation lock on the River Witham in Lincolnshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
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D.
Latchford Lock
Latchford Lock is a major lock on the Manchester Ship Canal in Warrington, England, enabling large vessels to navigate between the River Mersey and the inland port network.
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E.
Irlam Lock
Irlam Lock is a lock on the Manchester Ship Canal in Greater Manchester, England, that helps manage vessel traffic and water levels along the waterway.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal lock
ⓘ
historic structure ⓘ navigation lock ⓘ |
| accessedBy |
cruisers
ⓘ
pleasure craft ⓘ small commercial vessels ⓘ |
| connectsSectionOf |
lower River Shannon
ⓘ
upper River Shannon ⓘ |
| country | Ireland ⓘ |
| environment | riverine landscape ⓘ |
| function |
enables navigation past river shallows and weirs
ⓘ
facilitates boat passage ⓘ |
| hasHeritageValue | industrial heritage ⓘ |
| hasStructure |
lock chamber
ⓘ
lock gates ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic navigation infrastructure ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Irish inland waterways network ⓘ |
| locatedIn | County Galway ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | Republic of Ireland ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Connacht ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Meelick ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterway | River Shannon ⓘ |
| navigationRole | bypasses non-navigable river stretch ⓘ |
| nearbyFeature | Shannon callows ⓘ |
| operatedBy | waterway authority of Ireland ⓘ |
| partOf | Shannon Navigation ⓘ |
| usedFor |
inland waterway transport
ⓘ
recreational boating ⓘ |
| watercourse | River Shannon ⓘ |
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: Meelick Lock Description of subject: Meelick Lock is a historic navigation lock on Ireland’s River Shannon that facilitates boat passage along the waterway.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.