Great Lakes waterway
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The Great Lakes waterway is a system of natural and artificial channels that enables commercial and recreational navigation between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River.
All labels observed (14)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T843812 — 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 Lakes waterway Context triple: [Port Huron, Michigan, locatedOn, Great Lakes waterway]
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A.
Illinois Waterway system
The Illinois Waterway system is a network of rivers, canals, and locks in Illinois that provides a vital navigable link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River.
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B.
Erie Canal
The Erie Canal is a historic man-made waterway in New York State that opened in 1825, linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and transforming U.S. commerce and westward expansion.
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C.
Sault Ste. Marie Canal
The Sault Ste. Marie Canal is a historic Canadian lock and canal system in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, that once formed a key part of Great Lakes shipping and is now a National Historic Site.
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D.
Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal is a man-made waterway in Illinois that reverses the flow of the Chicago River, diverts wastewater away from Lake Michigan, and serves as a key navigation link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River system.
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E.
Champlain Canal
The Champlain Canal is a historic waterway in New York State that links the Hudson River to Lake Champlain, forming part of the state's inland navigation system.
- 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 Lakes waterway Target entity description: The Great Lakes waterway is a system of natural and artificial channels that enables commercial and recreational navigation between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River.
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A.
Illinois Waterway system
The Illinois Waterway system is a network of rivers, canals, and locks in Illinois that provides a vital navigable link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River.
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B.
Erie Canal
The Erie Canal is a historic man-made waterway in New York State that opened in 1825, linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and transforming U.S. commerce and westward expansion.
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C.
Sault Ste. Marie Canal
The Sault Ste. Marie Canal is a historic Canadian lock and canal system in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, that once formed a key part of Great Lakes shipping and is now a National Historic Site.
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D.
Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal is a man-made waterway in Illinois that reverses the flow of the Chicago River, diverts wastewater away from Lake Michigan, and serves as a key navigation link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River system.
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E.
Champlain Canal
The Champlain Canal is a historic waterway in New York State that links the Hudson River to Lake Champlain, forming part of the state's inland navigation system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
navigable waterway
ⓘ
transportation infrastructure ⓘ waterway system ⓘ |
| connectsWith |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
Gulf of St. Lawrence ⓘ
surface form:
Gulf of Saint Lawrence
Inland waterway system of North America ⓘ |
| enablesNavigationBetween |
Great Lakes
ⓘ
Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system ⓘ
surface form:
Great Lakes and Atlantic Ocean
|
| governedBy | binational agreements between Canada and the United States ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
canals
ⓘ
channels ⓘ dams ⓘ locks ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Detroit River
ⓘ
Great Lakes ⓘ Lake Erie ⓘ Lake Huron ⓘ Lake Michigan ⓘ Lake Ontario ⓘ Lake Superior ⓘ Niagara River ⓘ St. Clair River ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Clair River
Saint Clair–Detroit River System ⓘ Saint Lawrence River ⓘ Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Lawrence Seaway
Saint Marys Falls Canal ⓘ St. Marys River ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Marys River
Soo Locks ⓘ Welland Canal ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Canada
ⓘ
North America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| navigableFor |
lake freighters
ⓘ
ocean-going vessels (via Saint Lawrence Seaway) ⓘ |
| partOf |
Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system
ⓘ
surface form:
Great Lakes–Saint Lawrence Seaway system
|
| supportsIndustry |
grain export from North America
ⓘ
mining and ore transport ⓘ steel industry in Great Lakes region ⓘ |
| traverses |
Michigan
ⓘ
Minnesota ⓘ New York ⓘ Ohio ⓘ Ontario ⓘ Pennsylvania ⓘ Quebec, Canada ⓘ
surface form:
Quebec
Wisconsin ⓘ |
| usedFor |
bulk cargo transport
ⓘ
commercial shipping ⓘ international trade ⓘ recreational boating ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| waterwayType |
system of artificial channels
ⓘ
system of natural channels ⓘ |
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 Lakes waterway Description of subject: The Great Lakes waterway is a system of natural and artificial channels that enables commercial and recreational navigation between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Port Huron, Michigan
this entity surface form:
St. Lawrence Seaway
this entity surface form:
Great Lakes waterway system
this entity surface form:
St. Lawrence Seaway
this entity surface form:
St. Lawrence Seaway
this entity surface form:
Great Lakes waterway system
this entity surface form:
Saint Lawrence Seaway infrastructure
this entity surface form:
Great Lakes shipping routes
this entity surface form:
Great Lakes waterway system
this entity surface form:
St. Lawrence Seaway project
this entity surface form:
Great Lakes shipping routes
this entity surface form:
Lake Erie shipping lanes
this entity surface form:
St. Lawrence Seaway
this entity surface form:
St. Lawrence Seaway corridor
this entity surface form:
St. Lawrence Seaway
this entity surface form:
Huron-Erie Corridor
this entity surface form:
Great Lakes waterway system
this entity surface form:
Great Lakes shipping routes
this entity surface form:
Great Lakes shipping lanes
this entity surface form:
Great Lakes shipping routes
this entity surface form:
Great Lakes shipping routes
subject surface form:
Porte des Morts
this entity surface form:
Great Lakes shipping
subject surface form:
Porte des Morts
this entity surface form:
Great Lakes waterway system
this entity surface form:
Great Lakes waterway system
this entity surface form:
Saint Lawrence Seaway
this entity surface form:
Great Lakes waterway system
this entity surface form:
Great Lakes transportation
this entity surface form:
Lake Michigan shipping lanes