Thorne Lock
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Thorne 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 |
|---|---|
| Thorne Lock canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5047902 — 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: Thorne Lock Context triple: [Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation, hasLock, Thorne Lock]
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A.
Thurmaston Lock
Thurmaston Lock is a navigation lock on the River Soar in Leicestershire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
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B.
Allington Lock
Allington Lock is a key navigation and flood-control lock on the River Medway in Kent, England, marking the tidal limit of the river.
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C.
Saltersford Lock
Saltersford Lock is a navigation lock on the River Weaver in Cheshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
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D.
Barton Lock
Barton Lock is a lock on the Manchester Ship Canal that enables vessels to navigate changes in water level along this major industrial waterway in northwest England.
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E.
Stoke Lock
Stoke Lock is a navigation lock on the River Wey in Surrey, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage 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: Thorne Lock Target entity description: Thorne 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.
Thurmaston Lock
Thurmaston Lock is a navigation lock on the River Soar in Leicestershire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
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B.
Allington Lock
Allington Lock is a key navigation and flood-control lock on the River Medway in Kent, England, marking the tidal limit of the river.
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C.
Saltersford Lock
Saltersford Lock is a navigation lock on the River Weaver in Cheshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
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D.
Barton Lock
Barton Lock is a lock on the Manchester Ship Canal that enables vessels to navigate changes in water level along this major industrial waterway in northwest England.
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E.
Stoke Lock
Stoke Lock is a navigation lock on the River Wey in Surrey, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the waterway.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | canal lock ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasAccessFor |
commercial boats
ⓘ
recreational boats ⓘ |
| hasFunction | water level control for navigation ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructureType | inland waterway infrastructure ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
South Yorkshire ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Thorne, South Yorkshire
ⓘ
linked to:
Thorne
|
| locatedOnWaterway | Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation ⓘ |
| partOf |
Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation lock system
ⓘ
linked to:
Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation
|
| region | Yorkshire and the Humber ⓘ |
| transportModeSupported | boat traffic ⓘ |
| usedFor |
lowering boats between different water levels
ⓘ
raising boats between different water levels ⓘ |
| waterwayType | navigation 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: Thorne Lock Description of subject: Thorne 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 (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.