River Soar navigation
E1039678
The River Soar navigation is a canalised section of the River Soar in Leicestershire, England, forming part of the inland waterway network for leisure boating and local transport.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| River Soar navigation canonical | 3 |
| River Soar navigation system | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13397507 — 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: River Soar navigation Context triple: [Leicester Line, linkedWaterway, River Soar navigation]
-
A.
Sankey Brook Navigation
Sankey Brook Navigation is an early British industrial canal in northwest England that played a key role in transporting coal and supporting the region’s industrial development.
-
B.
River Weaver Navigation
River Weaver Navigation is a canalised section of the River Weaver in Cheshire, England, developed to facilitate commercial boat traffic through locks and other navigation works.
-
C.
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.
-
D.
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.
-
E.
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.
- 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: River Soar navigation Target entity description: The River Soar navigation is a canalised section of the River Soar in Leicestershire, England, forming part of the inland waterway network for leisure boating and local transport.
-
A.
Sankey Brook Navigation
Sankey Brook Navigation is an early British industrial canal in northwest England that played a key role in transporting coal and supporting the region’s industrial development.
-
B.
River Weaver Navigation
River Weaver Navigation is a canalised section of the River Weaver in Cheshire, England, developed to facilitate commercial boat traffic through locks and other navigation works.
-
C.
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.
-
D.
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.
-
E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canalised river
ⓘ
inland waterway ⓘ navigation ⓘ |
| basinCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Grand Union Canal
ⓘ
River Trent ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| followsWatercourse | River Soar ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
bridges
ⓘ
locks ⓘ towpaths ⓘ weirs ⓘ |
| hasLock | yes ⓘ |
| historicalUse | freight transport ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Charnwood district
ⓘ
linked to:
Charnwood
Leicester city area ⓘ Leicestershire ⓘ |
| navigable | yes ⓘ |
| partOf |
British inland waterway network
ⓘ
River Soar catchment ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Leicester
ⓘ
Loughborough ⓘ |
| primaryUse | recreational boating ⓘ |
| region | East Midlands ⓘ |
| usedBy |
narrowboats
ⓘ
pleasure craft ⓘ |
| usedFor |
leisure boating
ⓘ
local transport ⓘ |
| waterwaySystem |
Grand Union Canal system
ⓘ
linked to:
Grand Union Canal
|
| waterwayType | canalised section of river ⓘ |
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: River Soar navigation Description of subject: The River Soar navigation is a canalised section of the River Soar in Leicestershire, England, forming part of the inland waterway network for leisure boating and local transport.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: River Soar navigation
linked to: River Soar navigation