Sandiacre Lock
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Sandiacre Lock is a historic canal lock on the Erewash Canal in Sandiacre, Derbyshire, known for its preserved lock-keeper’s cottage and role in the region’s industrial waterway heritage.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sandiacre Lock canonical | 3 |
| Sandiacre Lock area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5084438 — 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: Sandiacre Lock Context triple: [Sandiacre, hasLandmark, Sandiacre Lock]
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A.
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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B.
Holmes Lock
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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C.
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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D.
Beadlam
Beadlam is a small village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, situated within the Ryedale district.
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E.
The Tower
The Tower is a 1928 poetry collection by W.B. Yeats that reflects his mature style, blending Irish myth, personal reflection, and meditations on aging and artistic legacy.
- 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: Sandiacre Lock Target entity description: Sandiacre Lock is a historic canal lock on the Erewash Canal in Sandiacre, Derbyshire, known for its preserved lock-keeper’s cottage and role in the region’s industrial waterway heritage.
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A.
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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B.
Holmes Lock
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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C.
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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D.
Beadlam
Beadlam is a small village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, situated within the Ryedale district.
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E.
The Tower
The Tower is a 1928 poetry collection by W.B. Yeats that reflects his mature style, blending Irish myth, personal reflection, and meditations on aging and artistic legacy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal lock
ⓘ
historic structure ⓘ |
| constructionMaterial |
brick
ⓘ
stone ⓘ |
| hasAccess | towpath ⓘ |
| hasAdjacentStructure | Sandiacre Lock Cottages ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | example of Midlands canal engineering ⓘ |
| hasFunction | enables boats to pass changes in water level ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalUse |
supporting local industry
ⓘ
transporting coal ⓘ transporting goods ⓘ |
| hasLandscapeContext | urban-fringe setting ⓘ |
| hasManagementObjective |
heritage conservation
ⓘ
public access and education ⓘ |
| hasPart | lock-keeper’s cottage ⓘ |
| hasQuality | well-preserved ⓘ |
| hasTouristAttractionType |
canalside attraction
ⓘ
industrial heritage site ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | listed structure ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Erewash Canal navigation system
ⓘ
linked to:
Erewash Canal
regional industrial waterway heritage ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Derbyshire ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedInSettlement | Sandiacre ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterway | Erewash Canal ⓘ |
| nearby |
Erewash Valley Trail
ⓘ
Sandiacre town centre ⓘ |
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| operatedBy | canal navigation authority ⓘ |
| usedFor |
heritage tourism
ⓘ
inland water transport ⓘ recreational boating ⓘ |
| waterwayType | narrow 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: Sandiacre Lock Description of subject: Sandiacre Lock is a historic canal lock on the Erewash Canal in Sandiacre, Derbyshire, known for its preserved lock-keeper’s cottage and role in the region’s industrial waterway heritage.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sandiacre Lock