Leicester Section of the Grand Union Canal

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The Leicester Section of the Grand Union Canal is a rural stretch of England’s historic Grand Union Canal network, running through Leicestershire and serving as a key route for leisure boating and local waterways heritage.

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All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
Grand Union Canal Leicester Line	2
Leicester Line of the Grand Union Canal	2
Grand Union Canal Leicester Line (Soar)	1
Leicester Line of Grand Union Canal	1
Leicester Section of the Grand Union Canal canonical	1
Old Grand Union Canal (Leicester line)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13493721 — 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: Leicester Section of the Grand Union Canal
Context triple: [Foxton Locks, connectedTo, Leicester Section of the Grand Union Canal]

A. Leicester Canal
The Leicester Canal is a historic English waterway built during the Industrial Revolution to facilitate transport and trade in and around the city of Leicester.
B. Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Union Canal
The Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Union Canal is a narrow canal branch in Buckinghamshire, England, linking the town of Aylesbury to the main line of the Grand Union Canal.
C. Loughborough Canal
Loughborough Canal is a waterway serving the town of Loughborough in Leicestershire, England, forming part of the region’s historic canal network for transport and leisure boating.
D. Grantham Canal
The Grantham Canal is a historic English waterway in the East Midlands that once linked the town of Grantham to the national canal network, primarily serving 18th- and 19th-century trade and now valued for leisure and wildlife.
E. Bridgewater Canal
The Bridgewater Canal is a historic English canal, often regarded as the first modern canal in Britain, which played a key role in the early Industrial Revolution by linking coal mines to the growing city of Manchester.
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: Leicester Section of the Grand Union Canal
Target entity description: The Leicester Section of the Grand Union Canal is a rural stretch of England’s historic Grand Union Canal network, running through Leicestershire and serving as a key route for leisure boating and local waterways heritage.

A. Leicester Canal
The Leicester Canal is a historic English waterway built during the Industrial Revolution to facilitate transport and trade in and around the city of Leicester.
B. Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Union Canal
The Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Union Canal is a narrow canal branch in Buckinghamshire, England, linking the town of Aylesbury to the main line of the Grand Union Canal.
C. Loughborough Canal
Loughborough Canal is a waterway serving the town of Loughborough in Leicestershire, England, forming part of the region’s historic canal network for transport and leisure boating.
D. Grantham Canal
The Grantham Canal is a historic English waterway in the East Midlands that once linked the town of Grantham to the national canal network, primarily serving 18th- and 19th-century trade and now valued for leisure and wildlife.
E. Bridgewater Canal
The Bridgewater Canal is a historic English canal, often regarded as the first modern canal in Britain, which played a key role in the early Industrial Revolution by linking coal mines to the growing city of Manchester.
F. None of above. chosen