Lock CS8
E464718
Lock CS8 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, helping vessels transition between different water levels along the canal route.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lock CS8 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4723645 — 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: Lock CS8 Context triple: [Cayuga–Seneca Canal, hasLock, Lock CS8]
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A.
Lock
Lock is a Symfony component that provides a robust locking mechanism to prevent concurrent access conflicts in shared resources.
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B.
Lock O-1
Lock O-1 is a navigation lock on New York State’s Oswego Canal that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the waterway.
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C.
Wanne-Eickel lock
Wanne-Eickel lock is a key navigation lock on Germany’s Rhine–Herne Canal that regulates water levels and enables the passage of ships between canal sections.
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D.
Latch
"Latch" is a 2012 breakout electronic soul single by Disclosure featuring Sam Smith, widely credited with launching Smith’s career and popularizing Disclosure’s signature sound.
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E.
Lockit
Lockit is the corrupt jailer and one of the main antagonists in John Gay's satirical ballad opera "The Beggar's Opera."
- 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: Lock CS8 Target entity description: Lock CS8 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, helping vessels transition between different water levels along the canal route.
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A.
Lock
Lock is a Symfony component that provides a robust locking mechanism to prevent concurrent access conflicts in shared resources.
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B.
Lock O-1
Lock O-1 is a navigation lock on New York State’s Oswego Canal that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the waterway.
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C.
Wanne-Eickel lock
Wanne-Eickel lock is a key navigation lock on Germany’s Rhine–Herne Canal that regulates water levels and enables the passage of ships between canal sections.
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D.
Latch
"Latch" is a 2012 breakout electronic soul single by Disclosure featuring Sam Smith, widely credited with launching Smith’s career and popularizing Disclosure’s signature sound.
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E.
Lockit
Lockit is the corrupt jailer and one of the main antagonists in John Gay's satirical ballad opera "The Beggar's Opera."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal lock
ⓘ
navigation lock ⓘ |
| connectsWith |
downstream reach of Cayuga–Seneca Canal
ⓘ
upstream reach of Cayuga–Seneca Canal ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasAccess |
for pleasure craft
ⓘ
for small commercial vessels ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
control mechanisms
ⓘ
lock chamber ⓘ lock gates ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
lowers vessels
ⓘ
raises vessels ⓘ |
| hasName | Lock CS8 ⓘ |
| hasPurpose | maintain navigable water levels on Cayuga–Seneca Canal ⓘ |
| isInfrastructureType | water transport infrastructure ⓘ |
| isNumbered | CS8 ⓘ |
| isPartOfNetwork |
Erie Canal–connected waterways
ⓘ
linked to:
New York State Canal System
|
| locatedIn | Cayuga–Seneca Canal ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
State of New York
ⓘ
linked to:
New York State
|
| locatedInRegion |
Upstate New York
ⓘ
linked to:
Upstate New York (broad sense)
|
| locatedOnWaterway | Cayuga–Seneca Canal ⓘ |
| operatedBy | New York State Canal Corporation ⓘ |
| owner |
State of New York
ⓘ
linked to:
New York State
|
| partOf |
Cayuga–Seneca Canal lock system
ⓘ
linked to:
Cayuga–Seneca Canal
New York State Canal System ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial vessel transit
ⓘ
navigation ⓘ recreational boating ⓘ |
| waterwayFunction | enables vessel passage between different water levels ⓘ |
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: Lock CS8 Description of subject: Lock CS8 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, helping vessels transition between different water levels along the canal route.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.