Boerenwetering canal
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The Boerenwetering canal is a waterway in Amsterdam that separates the De Pijp neighborhood from the Museumplein and Oud-Zuid areas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Boerenwetering canal canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1415454 — 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: Boerenwetering canal Context triple: [De Pijp, borderedBy, Boerenwetering canal]
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A.
Van Starkenborghkanaal
The Van Starkenborghkanaal is a key Dutch shipping canal in the province of Groningen that forms part of an important east–west inland waterway connection in the northern Netherlands.
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B.
Admiraal de Ruijterweg canal
Admiraal de Ruijterweg canal is a waterway in Amsterdam associated with the Admiraal de Ruijterweg area, forming part of the city’s historic urban canal network.
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C.
Wilhelmina Canal
The Wilhelmina Canal is a major Dutch waterway in the province of North Brabant, constructed to improve regional shipping and industrial transport connections.
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D.
Amsterdam–Rhine Canal
The Amsterdam–Rhine Canal is a major Dutch waterway that connects Amsterdam to the Rhine River, serving as an important route for inland shipping and transport.
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E.
Jacob van Lennepkanaal
Jacob van Lennepkanaal is a canal in Amsterdam, Netherlands, named after the Dutch writer Jacob van Lennep and forming part of the city's historic waterway network.
- 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: Boerenwetering canal Target entity description: The Boerenwetering canal is a waterway in Amsterdam that separates the De Pijp neighborhood from the Museumplein and Oud-Zuid areas.
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A.
Van Starkenborghkanaal
The Van Starkenborghkanaal is a key Dutch shipping canal in the province of Groningen that forms part of an important east–west inland waterway connection in the northern Netherlands.
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B.
Admiraal de Ruijterweg canal
Admiraal de Ruijterweg canal is a waterway in Amsterdam associated with the Admiraal de Ruijterweg area, forming part of the city’s historic urban canal network.
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C.
Wilhelmina Canal
The Wilhelmina Canal is a major Dutch waterway in the province of North Brabant, constructed to improve regional shipping and industrial transport connections.
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D.
Amsterdam–Rhine Canal
The Amsterdam–Rhine Canal is a major Dutch waterway that connects Amsterdam to the Rhine River, serving as an important route for inland shipping and transport.
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E.
Jacob van Lennepkanaal
Jacob van Lennepkanaal is a canal in Amsterdam, Netherlands, named after the Dutch writer Jacob van Lennep and forming part of the city's historic waterway network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal
ⓘ
waterway ⓘ |
| country | Netherlands ⓘ |
| crossedBy | multiple road bridges ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Amsterdam-Zuid district
ⓘ
linked to:
Amsterdam Zuid
De Pijp neighborhood ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
neighborhood boundary
ⓘ
recreational waterway ⓘ |
| hasWaterType | freshwater ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Amsterdam
ⓘ
province of North Holland ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Heineken Experience
ⓘ
linked to:
Heineken Experience brewery
Museumplein ⓘ Rijksmuseum Amsterdam ⓘ
linked to:
Rijksmuseum
|
| partOf |
Amsterdam canal system
ⓘ
linked to:
Amsterdam canal network
|
| separates |
De Pijp
ⓘ
Museumplein area ⓘ
linked to:
Museumplein
Oud-Zuid ⓘ |
| usedFor |
small boat traffic
ⓘ
urban drainage ⓘ |
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: Boerenwetering canal Description of subject: The Boerenwetering canal is a waterway in Amsterdam that separates the De Pijp neighborhood from the Museumplein and Oud-Zuid areas.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.