Dutton Locks
E330989
Dutton Locks is a set of navigation locks on the River Weaver in Cheshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dutton Locks canonical | 2 |
| Vale Royal Locks | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3075924 — 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: Dutton Locks Context triple: [River Weaver, hasLock, Dutton Locks]
-
A.
Eastham Locks
Eastham Locks is a set of ship locks on the Manchester Ship Canal in Cheshire, England, serving as a key gateway between the canal and the River Mersey.
-
B.
Foxton Locks
Foxton Locks is a famous staircase flight of canal locks in Leicestershire, England, known as one of the most impressive and historically significant engineering features on the British canal network.
-
C.
Burleigh Falls Lock
Burleigh Falls Lock is a canal lock on Ontario’s Trent–Severn Waterway, known for managing navigation and water levels near the scenic Burleigh Falls area.
-
D.
Sollom Lock
Sollom Lock is a canal lock on the Rufford Branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Lancashire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boats to navigate between different elevations.
-
E.
Gladstone Lock
Gladstone Lock is a major ship lock within the Port of Liverpool that enables large vessels to access the port’s dock system from the River Mersey.
- 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: Dutton Locks Target entity description: Dutton Locks is a set of navigation locks on the River Weaver in Cheshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
-
A.
Eastham Locks
Eastham Locks is a set of ship locks on the Manchester Ship Canal in Cheshire, England, serving as a key gateway between the canal and the River Mersey.
-
B.
Foxton Locks
Foxton Locks is a famous staircase flight of canal locks in Leicestershire, England, known as one of the most impressive and historically significant engineering features on the British canal network.
-
C.
Burleigh Falls Lock
Burleigh Falls Lock is a canal lock on Ontario’s Trent–Severn Waterway, known for managing navigation and water levels near the scenic Burleigh Falls area.
-
D.
Sollom Lock
Sollom Lock is a canal lock on the Rufford Branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Lancashire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boats to navigate between different elevations.
-
E.
Gladstone Lock
Gladstone Lock is a major ship lock within the Port of Liverpool that enables large vessels to access the port’s dock system from the River Mersey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lock flight
ⓘ
navigation lock ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| hasAccess |
by boat
ⓘ
by riverside paths ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
controlling river navigation
ⓘ
enabling boat passage ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | listed structure ⓘ |
| hasLockType | navigation lock ⓘ |
| hasOwner | navigation authority on the River Weaver ⓘ |
| hasPhysicalFeature |
lock gates
ⓘ
sluices ⓘ weirs ⓘ |
| hasPurpose | to allow vessels to bypass changes in river level ⓘ |
| hasUse | navigation ⓘ |
| isInfrastructureType | waterway infrastructure ⓘ |
| isPartOf | inland waterway network of England ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Cheshire ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedInHistoricCounty | Cheshire ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Cheshire West and Chester ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Dutton ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterway | River Weaver ⓘ |
| manages | water level ⓘ |
| partOf | River Weaver Navigation ⓘ |
| usedFor |
barges
ⓘ
commercial vessels ⓘ leisure boats ⓘ |
| watercourse | River Weaver ⓘ |
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: Dutton Locks Description of subject: Dutton Locks is a set of navigation locks on the River Weaver in Cheshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Dutton Locks