Ringvaart
E28391
The Ringvaart is a canal in the Netherlands that encircles the Haarlemmermeer polder and connects various waterways in the region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ringvaart canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T222855 — 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: Ringvaart Context triple: [Amstel River, connectedTo, Ringvaart]
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A.
The Voyage
"The Voyage" is an essay by Washington Irving that reflects on the emotions and experiences of transatlantic travel, serving as the opening piece in his collection *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.*
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B.
Harborland
Harborland is a popular waterfront shopping and entertainment district in Kobe, Japan, known for its modern malls, restaurants, and scenic harbor views.
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C.
Volkerak
Volkerak is a lake and former estuarine channel in the southwestern Netherlands that forms part of the country’s major Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt waterway system.
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D.
Half Moon
Half Moon is the English name of the Dutch ship Halve Maen, famed for Henry Hudson’s 1609 voyage that led to the exploration of present-day New York.
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E.
Zephyr Cove
Zephyr Cove is a small lakeside community and popular recreation area on the southeastern shore of Lake Tahoe in Nevada, known for its beaches, boating, and scenic mountain views.
- 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: Ringvaart Target entity description: The Ringvaart is a canal in the Netherlands that encircles the Haarlemmermeer polder and connects various waterways in the region.
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A.
The Voyage
"The Voyage" is an essay by Washington Irving that reflects on the emotions and experiences of transatlantic travel, serving as the opening piece in his collection *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.*
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B.
Harborland
Harborland is a popular waterfront shopping and entertainment district in Kobe, Japan, known for its modern malls, restaurants, and scenic harbor views.
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C.
Volkerak
Volkerak is a lake and former estuarine channel in the southwestern Netherlands that forms part of the country’s major Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt waterway system.
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D.
Half Moon
Half Moon is the English name of the Dutch ship Halve Maen, famed for Henry Hudson’s 1609 voyage that led to the exploration of present-day New York.
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E.
Zephyr Cove
Zephyr Cove is a small lakeside community and popular recreation area on the southeastern shore of Lake Tahoe in Nevada, known for its beaches, boating, and scenic mountain views.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal
ⓘ
waterway ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Boezem van de Rijnland water board
ⓘ
Haarlemmertrekvaart ⓘ Kagerplassen ⓘ Leidsevaart ⓘ Westeinderplassen ⓘ |
| constructionPurpose | drainage of Haarlemmermeer lake ⓘ |
| country | Netherlands ⓘ |
| crossedBy |
A4 motorway
ⓘ
A44 motorway ⓘ N207 road ⓘ |
| encircles |
Haarlemmermeer polder
ⓘ
linked to:
Haarlemmermeer
|
| historicalFunction | boundary of reclaimed land ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Dutch ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
province of North Holland
ⓘ
linked to:
North Holland
province of South Holland ⓘ
linked to:
Zuid-Holland
|
| nameMeaning | ring canal ⓘ |
| near |
Aalsmeer
ⓘ
Haarlem ⓘ Hoofddorp ⓘ Leiden ⓘ Nieuw-Vennep ⓘ |
| partOf | Dutch canal network ⓘ |
| shape | ring-shaped ⓘ |
| surrounds | municipality of Haarlemmermeer ⓘ |
| usedFor |
drainage
ⓘ
inland navigation ⓘ water management ⓘ |
| waterBoard | Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland ⓘ |
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: Ringvaart Description of subject: The Ringvaart is a canal in the Netherlands that encircles the Haarlemmermeer polder and connects various waterways in the region.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.