Lock CS20
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Lock CS20 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels along the waterway.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lock CS20 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4723657 — 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 CS20 Context triple: [Cayuga–Seneca Canal, hasLock, Lock CS20]
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A.
Lock CS2
Lock CS2 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels along the waterway.
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B.
Lock CS3
Lock CS3 is a navigation lock on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the waterway.
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C.
Lock CS4
Lock CS4 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels along the waterway.
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D.
Lock CS9
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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E.
Lock CS8
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.
- 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 CS20 Target entity description: Lock CS20 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels along the waterway.
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A.
Lock CS2
Lock CS2 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels along the waterway.
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B.
Lock CS3
Lock CS3 is a navigation lock on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the waterway.
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C.
Lock CS4
Lock CS4 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels along the waterway.
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D.
Lock CS9
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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Lock CS8
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal lock
ⓘ
infrastructure ⓘ navigation lock ⓘ |
| category | Locks on the New York State Canal System ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| function | raise and lower boats between different water levels ⓘ |
| hasAccess |
commercial vessels
ⓘ
recreational boats ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
chamber for vessels
ⓘ
gates to control water level ⓘ mechanisms to fill and empty lock chamber ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New York State
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locatedOn |
Cayuga–Seneca Canal navigation route
ⓘ
linked to:
Cayuga–Seneca Canal
|
| operatedBy | New York State Canal Corporation ⓘ |
| owner |
State of New York
ⓘ
linked to:
New York State
|
| partOf |
Cayuga–Seneca Canal
ⓘ
New York State Canal System ⓘ |
| purpose | enable vessels to bypass changes in elevation along the canal ⓘ |
| status | navigational infrastructure ⓘ |
| transportNetwork |
Inland waterway system of New York
ⓘ
linked to:
New York State Canal System
|
| usedFor |
boat traffic
ⓘ
navigation ⓘ |
| waterway | Cayuga–Seneca Canal ⓘ |
| waterwayTypeServed | canal ⓘ |
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 CS20 Description of subject: Lock CS20 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels along the waterway.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.