Oudehoofdkanaal
E586515
Oudehoofdkanaal is a historic canal in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden, known for its role in the city’s traditional waterways and urban landscape.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Oudehoofdkanaal canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6322524 — 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: Oudehoofdkanaal Context triple: [Leeuwarden, hasCanal, Oudehoofdkanaal]
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A.
Boerenwetering canal
The Boerenwetering canal is a waterway in Amsterdam that separates the De Pijp neighborhood from the Museumplein and Oud-Zuid areas.
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B.
Stadskanaal canal
Stadskanaal canal is a historic waterway in the Netherlands that was constructed primarily for peat transport and gave its name to the surrounding town of Stadskanaal.
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C.
Van Starkenborghkanaal
The Van Starkenborghkanaal is a key Dutch shipping canal in the province of Groningen that forms part of an important east–west inland waterway connection in the northern Netherlands.
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D.
Ghent–Terneuzen Canal
The Ghent–Terneuzen Canal is a major shipping canal linking the Belgian city of Ghent to the port of Terneuzen in the Netherlands, providing an important maritime access route to the North Sea.
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E.
Admiraal de Ruijterweg canal
Admiraal de Ruijterweg canal is a waterway in Amsterdam associated with the Admiraal de Ruijterweg area, forming part of the city’s historic urban canal network.
- 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: Oudehoofdkanaal Target entity description: Oudehoofdkanaal is a historic canal in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden, known for its role in the city’s traditional waterways and urban landscape.
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A.
Boerenwetering canal
The Boerenwetering canal is a waterway in Amsterdam that separates the De Pijp neighborhood from the Museumplein and Oud-Zuid areas.
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B.
Stadskanaal canal
Stadskanaal canal is a historic waterway in the Netherlands that was constructed primarily for peat transport and gave its name to the surrounding town of Stadskanaal.
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C.
Van Starkenborghkanaal
The Van Starkenborghkanaal is a key Dutch shipping canal in the province of Groningen that forms part of an important east–west inland waterway connection in the northern Netherlands.
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D.
Ghent–Terneuzen Canal
The Ghent–Terneuzen Canal is a major shipping canal linking the Belgian city of Ghent to the port of Terneuzen in the Netherlands, providing an important maritime access route to the North Sea.
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E.
Admiraal de Ruijterweg canal
Admiraal de Ruijterweg canal is a waterway in Amsterdam associated with the Admiraal de Ruijterweg area, forming part of the city’s historic urban canal network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal
ⓘ
waterway ⓘ |
| contributesTo | urban landscape of Leeuwarden ⓘ |
| country | Netherlands ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | historic urban waterway in Leeuwarden ⓘ |
| hasFunction | shaping historic city structure of Leeuwarden ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | historic canal ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfName | Dutch ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage | Oudehoofdkanaal ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Leeuwarden
ⓘ
province of Friesland ⓘ urban area of Leeuwarden ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
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Central European Time ⓘ |
| partOf |
traditional waterways of Leeuwarden
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water system of Leeuwarden ⓘ |
| usedFor |
navigation
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recreation ⓘ urban drainage ⓘ |
| waterBodyType | artificial 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: Oudehoofdkanaal Description of subject: Oudehoofdkanaal is a historic canal in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden, known for its role in the city’s traditional waterways and urban landscape.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.