Great Ouse Navigation
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The Great Ouse Navigation is a managed inland waterway in eastern England that forms part of the River Great Ouse system, used for boating, recreation, and local transport.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Great Ouse Navigation canonical | 1 |
| River Great Ouse navigation route | 1 |
| River Great Ouse navigation system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12785138 — 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: Great Ouse Navigation Context triple: [Ouse Valley, hasWaterway, Great Ouse Navigation]
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A.
Stour Navigation
Stour Navigation is a historic system of locks and channel improvements that made the River Stour between Essex and Suffolk navigable for commercial river traffic.
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B.
River Wey Navigation
The River Wey Navigation is a historic canalised river in Surrey, England, forming part of one of the country’s earliest navigable waterways and linking the River Wey to the River Thames.
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C.
Stroudwater Navigation
Stroudwater Navigation is a historic canal in Gloucestershire, England, that formed part of an important inland waterway linking the River Severn to the Thames.
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D.
Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation
Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation is a man-made canalised waterway in Essex, England, built to provide a navigable route between Chelmsford and the tidal River Blackwater at Maldon.
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E.
River Lea Navigation
The River Lea Navigation is a canalised section of the River Lea in southeast England, historically developed to enable commercial barge traffic and now used primarily for leisure boating and waterside recreation.
- 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: Great Ouse Navigation Target entity description: The Great Ouse Navigation is a managed inland waterway in eastern England that forms part of the River Great Ouse system, used for boating, recreation, and local transport.
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A.
Stour Navigation
Stour Navigation is a historic system of locks and channel improvements that made the River Stour between Essex and Suffolk navigable for commercial river traffic.
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B.
River Wey Navigation
The River Wey Navigation is a historic canalised river in Surrey, England, forming part of one of the country’s earliest navigable waterways and linking the River Wey to the River Thames.
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C.
Stroudwater Navigation
Stroudwater Navigation is a historic canal in Gloucestershire, England, that formed part of an important inland waterway linking the River Severn to the Thames.
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D.
Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation
Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation is a man-made canalised waterway in Essex, England, built to provide a navigable route between Chelmsford and the tidal River Blackwater at Maldon.
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E.
River Lea Navigation
The River Lea Navigation is a canalised section of the River Lea in southeast England, historically developed to enable commercial barge traffic and now used primarily for leisure boating and waterside recreation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
inland waterway
ⓘ
navigation ⓘ water transport infrastructure ⓘ |
| basinCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Ely Ouse
ⓘ
linked to:
River Great Ouse
Fenland waterways ⓘ Old West River ⓘ Relief Channel ⓘ River Cam ⓘ River Lark ⓘ River Wissey ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Bedford
ⓘ
Downham Market ⓘ Ely ⓘ Huntingdon ⓘ St Ives ⓘ
linked to:
St Ives, Cambridgeshire
St Neots ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
drainage channels
ⓘ
flood banks ⓘ rural landscape ⓘ |
| hasStructure |
locks
ⓘ
sluices ⓘ weirs ⓘ |
| hasUse |
angling
ⓘ
canoeing ⓘ leisure cruising ⓘ rowing ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| hasWaterwayType |
managed navigation
ⓘ
non-tidal river navigation ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Great Ouse river system
ⓘ
linked to:
Great Ouse system
|
| locatedIn |
Bedfordshire
ⓘ
Cambridgeshire ⓘ
linked to:
Cambridgeshire, England
East of England ⓘ England ⓘ Norfolk ⓘ Northamptonshire ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | eastern England ⓘ |
| navigationAuthority |
Environment Agency
ⓘ
linked to:
Environment Agency (England)
|
| partOf | River Great Ouse ⓘ |
| supportsActivity |
day boat hire
ⓘ
narrowboat cruising ⓘ |
| terminus |
Bedford
ⓘ
Denver Sluice ⓘ |
| usedFor |
boating
ⓘ
local transport ⓘ recreation ⓘ |
| watercourse | River Great Ouse ⓘ |
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: Great Ouse Navigation Description of subject: The Great Ouse Navigation is a managed inland waterway in eastern England that forms part of the River Great Ouse system, used for boating, recreation, and local transport.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Great Ouse Navigation
linked to: Great Ouse Navigation