Fessenheim lock
E361621
Fessenheim lock is a major navigation lock on France’s Grand Canal d’Alsace, facilitating ship passage and water level control along the Rhine.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fessenheim | 1 |
| Fessenheim lock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3447817 — 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: Fessenheim lock Context triple: [Grand Canal d’Alsace, hasLock, Fessenheim lock]
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A.
Ottmarsheim lock
Ottmarsheim lock is a major navigation lock on the Grand Canal d’Alsace in eastern France, facilitating ship passage and water level management along the Rhine corridor.
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B.
Bütgenbach Dam
Bütgenbach Dam is a hydroelectric and flood-control structure in eastern Belgium that creates Lake Bütgenbach, a popular site for recreation and water sports.
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C.
Sorpe Dam
The Sorpe Dam is a German earth-fill dam in the Ruhr region that was a key target of the RAF’s World War II “Dambusters” raid, Operation Chastise.
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D.
Oberhausen lock
Oberhausen lock is a key navigation lock on Germany’s Rhine–Herne Canal that enables vessels to overcome changes in water level along this major industrial waterway.
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E.
Kembs hydroelectric power station
Kembs hydroelectric power station is a run-of-the-river hydroelectric facility on the Rhine in France, known as one of the oldest major plants harnessing the Grand Canal d’Alsace for power generation.
- 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: Fessenheim lock Target entity description: Fessenheim lock is a major navigation lock on France’s Grand Canal d’Alsace, facilitating ship passage and water level control along the Rhine.
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A.
Ottmarsheim lock
Ottmarsheim lock is a major navigation lock on the Grand Canal d’Alsace in eastern France, facilitating ship passage and water level management along the Rhine corridor.
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B.
Bütgenbach Dam
Bütgenbach Dam is a hydroelectric and flood-control structure in eastern Belgium that creates Lake Bütgenbach, a popular site for recreation and water sports.
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C.
Sorpe Dam
The Sorpe Dam is a German earth-fill dam in the Ruhr region that was a key target of the RAF’s World War II “Dambusters” raid, Operation Chastise.
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D.
Oberhausen lock
Oberhausen lock is a key navigation lock on Germany’s Rhine–Herne Canal that enables vessels to overcome changes in water level along this major industrial waterway.
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E.
Kembs hydroelectric power station
Kembs hydroelectric power station is a run-of-the-river hydroelectric facility on the Rhine in France, known as one of the oldest major plants harnessing the Grand Canal d’Alsace for power generation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hydraulic engineering structure
ⓘ
navigation lock ⓘ |
| belongsToBasin |
Rhine basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Rhine River Basin
|
| constructionMaterial | concrete ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
navigation safety
ⓘ
ship passage ⓘ water level control ⓘ |
| hasImpactOn |
Grand Canal d’Alsace water levels
ⓘ
Rhine water levels ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
regulation of Rhine flow
ⓘ
support for hydroelectric production at Fessenheim ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn | international Rhine navigation ⓘ |
| isEngineeringStructureOn | border section of the Rhine between France and Germany ⓘ |
| isInfrastructureType | river lock ⓘ |
| isMajorLockOn | Grand Canal d’Alsace ⓘ |
| isPartOfCorridor |
Rhine waterway corridor
ⓘ
linked to:
Rhine waterway system
|
| locatedDownstreamOf | Vogelgrun lock ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Grand Canal d’Alsace ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Haut-Rhin ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Grand Est ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Fessenheim
ⓘ
linked to:
Fessenheim lock
Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant ⓘ
linked to:
Fessenheim hydroelectric power station
|
| locatedOnWaterway | Rhine ⓘ |
| locatedUpstreamOf | Kembs lock ⓘ |
| navigationClass | large-gauge European inland waterway ⓘ |
| operator | Voies navigables de France ⓘ |
| partOf |
Grand Canal d’Alsace navigation system
ⓘ
linked to:
Grand Canal d’Alsace
Rhine river navigation infrastructure ⓘ |
| supportsVesselType |
barges
ⓘ
cargo ships ⓘ push-tow convoys ⓘ tankers ⓘ |
| usedFor |
barge traffic
ⓘ
commercial shipping ⓘ inland navigation ⓘ river transport ⓘ |
| watercourseManaged |
Grand Canal d’Alsace
ⓘ
Rhine ⓘ |
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: Fessenheim lock Description of subject: Fessenheim lock is a major navigation lock on France’s Grand Canal d’Alsace, facilitating ship passage and water level control along the Rhine.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Fessenheim lock