Lock CS9
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Lock CS9 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, helping vessels transit between different water levels along the canal route.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lock CS9 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4723646 — 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 CS9 Context triple: [Cayuga–Seneca Canal, hasLock, Lock CS9]
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A.
Lockit
Lockit is the corrupt jailer and one of the main antagonists in John Gay's satirical ballad opera "The Beggar's Opera."
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B.
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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C.
Wheeler Lock
Wheeler Lock is a navigation lock on the Tennessee River in northern Alabama that helps vessels bypass Wheeler Dam as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s waterway system.
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D.
Lock
Lock is a Symfony component that provides a robust locking mechanism to prevent concurrent access conflicts in shared resources.
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E.
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.
- 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 CS9 Target entity description: Lock CS9 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, helping vessels transit between different water levels along the canal route.
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A.
Lockit
Lockit is the corrupt jailer and one of the main antagonists in John Gay's satirical ballad opera "The Beggar's Opera."
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B.
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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C.
Wheeler Lock
Wheeler Lock is a navigation lock on the Tennessee River in northern Alabama that helps vessels bypass Wheeler Dam as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s waterway system.
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D.
Lock
Lock is a Symfony component that provides a robust locking mechanism to prevent concurrent access conflicts in shared resources.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal lock
ⓘ
navigation lock ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
control mechanisms
ⓘ
lock chamber ⓘ lock gates ⓘ |
| hasEconomicRole |
supports local commerce
ⓘ
supports regional tourism ⓘ |
| hasEngineeringPurpose | overcomes elevation differences along the canal ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
enables vessel transit between different water levels
ⓘ
water level regulation for navigation ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructureType | hydraulic engineering structure ⓘ |
| hasNavigationRole |
downbound transit
ⓘ
upbound transit ⓘ |
| hasSafetyRole | controls water level changes for vessels ⓘ |
| isInfrastructureOf |
New York State Canal System navigation network
ⓘ
linked to:
New York State Canal System
|
| isOnWaterway | Cayuga–Seneca Canal ⓘ |
| isPartOfRoute | inland water route between Cayuga Lake and Seneca Lake ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Cayuga–Seneca Canal ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
State of New York
ⓘ
linked to:
New York State
|
| operatedBy | New York State Canal Corporation ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
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 ⓘ |
| supportsVesselType |
pleasure craft
ⓘ
small commercial vessels ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial navigation
ⓘ
inland waterway transportation ⓘ recreational boating ⓘ |
| waterwayConnects | sections of the Cayuga–Seneca Canal at different elevations ⓘ |
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 CS9 Description of subject: Lock CS9 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, helping vessels transit 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.