Delaware Aqueduct
E42008
historic civil engineering structure
suspension aqueduct
transportation infrastructure
wire suspension bridge
The Delaware Aqueduct is a historic 19th-century suspension aqueduct that carried the Delaware and Hudson Canal over the Delaware River and is now preserved as the oldest surviving wire suspension bridge in the United States.
All labels observed (1)
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| Delaware Aqueduct canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T261603 — 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: Delaware Aqueduct Context triple: [John A. Roebling, designed, Delaware Aqueduct]
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Champlain Canal
The Champlain Canal is a historic waterway in New York State that links the Hudson River to Lake Champlain, forming part of the state's inland navigation system.
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New York State Canal System
The New York State Canal System is a network of interconnected canals and waterways in New York that evolved from historic routes like the Erie Canal and now supports recreation, tourism, and limited commercial navigation.
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Titicus Reservoir
Titicus Reservoir is a man-made lake in Westchester County, New York, that serves as one of the key water supply reservoirs for New York City.
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Erie Canal
The Erie Canal is a historic man-made waterway in New York State that opened in 1825, linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and transforming U.S. commerce and westward expansion.
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Delaware River
The Delaware River is a major waterway in the northeastern United States that forms part of the borders of several states and flows past major cities including Philadelphia before emptying into the Delaware Bay.
- 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: Delaware Aqueduct Target entity description: The Delaware Aqueduct is a historic 19th-century suspension aqueduct that carried the Delaware and Hudson Canal over the Delaware River and is now preserved as the oldest surviving wire suspension bridge in the United States.
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A.
Champlain Canal
The Champlain Canal is a historic waterway in New York State that links the Hudson River to Lake Champlain, forming part of the state's inland navigation system.
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B.
New York State Canal System
The New York State Canal System is a network of interconnected canals and waterways in New York that evolved from historic routes like the Erie Canal and now supports recreation, tourism, and limited commercial navigation.
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C.
Titicus Reservoir
Titicus Reservoir is a man-made lake in Westchester County, New York, that serves as one of the key water supply reservoirs for New York City.
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D.
Erie Canal
The Erie Canal is a historic man-made waterway in New York State that opened in 1825, linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and transforming U.S. commerce and westward expansion.
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Delaware River
The Delaware River is a major waterway in the northeastern United States that forms part of the borders of several states and flows past major cities including Philadelphia before emptying into the Delaware Bay.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Delaware Aqueduct Description of subject: The Delaware Aqueduct is a historic 19th-century suspension aqueduct that carried the Delaware and Hudson Canal over the Delaware River and is now preserved as the oldest surviving wire suspension bridge in the United States.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.