Holmes Lock
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Holmes Lock is a canal lock on the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation in South Yorkshire, England, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Holmes Lock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5047898 — 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: Holmes Lock Context triple: [Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation, hasLock, Holmes Lock]
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A.
Kembs lock
Kembs lock is a major navigation lock on the Grand Canal d’Alsace in eastern France, facilitating ship passage along the Rhine.
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B.
Kings Lock
Kings Lock is a navigation lock on the River Soar in England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the waterway.
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C.
Teston Lock
Teston Lock is a navigation lock on the River Medway in Kent, England, used to manage river levels and enable boat passage.
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D.
Old Windsor Lock
Old Windsor Lock is a historic lock on the River Thames in Berkshire, England, serving navigation near the village of Old Windsor.
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E.
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.
- 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: Holmes Lock Target entity description: Holmes Lock is a canal lock on the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation in South Yorkshire, England, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels.
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A.
Kembs lock
Kembs lock is a major navigation lock on the Grand Canal d’Alsace in eastern France, facilitating ship passage along the Rhine.
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B.
Kings Lock
Kings Lock is a navigation lock on the River Soar in England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the waterway.
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C.
Teston Lock
Teston Lock is a navigation lock on the River Medway in Kent, England, used to manage river levels and enable boat passage.
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D.
Old Windsor Lock
Old Windsor Lock is a historic lock on the River Thames in Berkshire, England, serving navigation near the village of Old Windsor.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal lock
ⓘ
navigation lock ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasAccess | boat traffic ⓘ |
| hasEnvironment | freshwater ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
gates at each end
ⓘ
lock chamber ⓘ mechanisms to fill and empty the lock chamber ⓘ |
| hasFunction | water level control for navigation ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructureType | navigation infrastructure ⓘ |
| hasNavigationType | canalised river navigation ⓘ |
| hasOwnerType | navigation authority ⓘ |
| isOnRoute | Sheffield to Goole navigation route ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation ⓘ South Yorkshire ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Yorkshire and the Humber ⓘ |
| maintainedFor | inland navigation ⓘ |
| partOf | inland waterway network of England ⓘ |
| usedBy |
commercial vessels
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narrowboats ⓘ pleasure craft ⓘ |
| usedFor |
lowering boats between different water levels
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raising boats between different water levels ⓘ |
| waterway | Sheffield and South Yorkshire 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: Holmes Lock Description of subject: Holmes Lock is a canal lock on the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation in South Yorkshire, England, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.