Sunbury Lock
E160648
Sunbury Lock is a lock on the River Thames in England, used to manage water levels and enable boats to navigate between different stretches of the river.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sunbury Lock canonical | 8 |
| Teddington Lock | 1 |
| Thames Lock | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1384297 — 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: Sunbury Lock Context triple: [Sunbury-on-Thames, hasAmenity, Sunbury Lock]
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A.
Eastham Lock
Eastham Lock is a major lock complex at the entrance of the Manchester Ship Canal near the River Mersey, enabling sea-going vessels to access the inland waterway.
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B.
Gloucester Lock
Gloucester Lock is a canal lock in the city of Gloucester, England, that connects the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal with the River Severn and manages navigation between them.
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C.
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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D.
Brentford Lock
Brentford Lock is a historic canal lock and waterside area on the Grand Union Canal in Brentford, west London, known for its maritime heritage and regenerated residential and leisure developments.
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E.
Stoke Lock
Stoke Lock is a navigation lock on the River Wey in Surrey, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage 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: Sunbury Lock Target entity description: Sunbury Lock is a lock on the River Thames in England, used to manage water levels and enable boats to navigate between different stretches of the river.
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A.
Eastham Lock
Eastham Lock is a major lock complex at the entrance of the Manchester Ship Canal near the River Mersey, enabling sea-going vessels to access the inland waterway.
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B.
Gloucester Lock
Gloucester Lock is a canal lock in the city of Gloucester, England, that connects the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal with the River Severn and manages navigation between them.
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C.
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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D.
Brentford Lock
Brentford Lock is a historic canal lock and waterside area on the Grand Union Canal in Brentford, west London, known for its maritime heritage and regenerated residential and leisure developments.
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E.
Stoke Lock
Stoke Lock is a navigation lock on the River Wey in Surrey, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the waterway.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lock
ⓘ
navigation lock ⓘ |
| basinCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| country |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasAdjacentFeature |
Sunbury Weir pool
ⓘ
towpath ⓘ |
| hasManualOperation | yes ⓘ |
| hasNearbySettlement |
Shepperton
ⓘ
Walton-on-Thames ⓘ |
| hasUse |
flood control
ⓘ
river navigation management ⓘ |
| hasWeir | Sunbury Weir ⓘ |
| locatedDownstreamOf | Shepperton Lock ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Sunbury-on-Thames
ⓘ
Surrey ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterway |
River Thames
ⓘ
linked to:
Thames
|
| locatedUpstreamOf | Molesey Lock ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Environment Agency
ⓘ
linked to:
Environment Agency (England)
|
| numberOfChambers | 1 ⓘ |
| opened | 1812 ⓘ |
| partOf | Thames lock system ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
enable boat navigation
ⓘ
manage water levels ⓘ |
| reconstructed |
1856
ⓘ
1927 ⓘ |
| riverMile | 28 ⓘ |
| servesTraffic |
commercial vessels
ⓘ
recreational boats ⓘ |
| waterwaySection | non-tidal Thames ⓘ |
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: Sunbury Lock Description of subject: Sunbury Lock is a lock on the River Thames in England, used to manage water levels and enable boats to navigate between different stretches of the river.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sunbury Lock
linked to: Sunbury Lock