Lock CS17
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Lock CS17 is a navigation lock on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the waterway.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lock CS17 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4723654 — 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 CS17 Context triple: [Cayuga–Seneca Canal, hasLock, Lock CS17]
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A.
Lock CS1
Lock CS1 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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B.
Lock CS14
Lock CS14 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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C.
Lock CS10
Lock CS10 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, helping vessels transition between different water levels along the waterway.
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D.
Lock CS11
Lock CS11 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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E.
Lock CS12
Lock CS12 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.
- 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 CS17 Target entity description: Lock CS17 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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A.
Lock CS1
Lock CS1 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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B.
Lock CS14
Lock CS14 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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C.
Lock CS10
Lock CS10 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, helping vessels transition between different water levels along the waterway.
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D.
Lock CS11
Lock CS11 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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E.
Lock CS12
Lock CS12 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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal lock
ⓘ
navigation lock ⓘ |
| hasAccess | vessels capable of navigating the Cayuga–Seneca Canal ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
control mechanisms
ⓘ
gates ⓘ lock chamber ⓘ |
| hasEngineeringStructureType | hydraulic structure ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
enables vessels to transition between different water levels
ⓘ
facilitates navigation on the Cayuga–Seneca Canal ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructureType | waterway infrastructure ⓘ |
| hasNavigationRole | water level transition point ⓘ |
| hasPurpose | to allow vessels to pass between sections of differing elevation ⓘ |
| hasRegion |
Upstate New York
ⓘ
linked to:
Upstate New York (broad sense)
|
| hasTransportationMode | inland water transport ⓘ |
| hasWaterwayType | canal ⓘ |
| isPartOfNetwork |
Erie Canal–connected waterways
ⓘ
linked to:
New York State Canal System
|
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | New York State ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locatedOnWaterway | Cayuga–Seneca Canal ⓘ |
| maintains | difference in water level between canal reaches ⓘ |
| partOf | New York State Canal System ⓘ |
| usedFor |
boat traffic
ⓘ
commercial navigation ⓘ recreational navigation ⓘ |
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 CS17 Description of subject: Lock CS17 is a navigation lock on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the waterway.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.