Caledonian Canal
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The Caledonian Canal is a historic waterway in the Scottish Highlands that links the east and west coasts by connecting a series of natural lochs through the Great Glen.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Caledonian Canal canonical | 18 |
| Great Glen waterway system | 3 |
| Caledonian Canal locks | 1 |
| Caledonian Canal navigation channel | 1 |
| Caledonian Canal system | 1 |
| Caledonian waterway system | 1 |
| Commissioners for the Caledonian Canal | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1427508 — 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: Caledonian Canal Context triple: [Great Glen, contains, Caledonian Canal]
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A.
Crinan Canal
The Crinan Canal is a historic waterway in western Scotland that provides a shortcut for boats between the Firth of Clyde and the Sound of Jura, avoiding the long route around the Kintyre peninsula.
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B.
Forth and Clyde Canal
The Forth and Clyde Canal is a historic Scottish waterway that crosses the Central Belt, linking the Firth of Forth on the east coast with the Firth of Clyde on the west.
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C.
Albert Canal
The Albert Canal is a major Belgian waterway linking the Meuse River to the port of Antwerp, serving as an important route for inland shipping and freight transport.
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D.
Union Canal
The Union Canal is a historic Scottish waterway that links Edinburgh to the Forth & Clyde Canal near Falkirk, once vital for transporting coal and other goods and now used mainly for leisure boating and recreation.
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E.
Sió Canal
The Sió Canal is a man-made waterway in Hungary that regulates the water level of Lake Balaton and connects it to the Danube River.
- 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: Caledonian Canal Target entity description: The Caledonian Canal is a historic waterway in the Scottish Highlands that links the east and west coasts by connecting a series of natural lochs through the Great Glen.
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A.
Crinan Canal
The Crinan Canal is a historic waterway in western Scotland that provides a shortcut for boats between the Firth of Clyde and the Sound of Jura, avoiding the long route around the Kintyre peninsula.
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B.
Forth and Clyde Canal
The Forth and Clyde Canal is a historic Scottish waterway that crosses the Central Belt, linking the Firth of Forth on the east coast with the Firth of Clyde on the west.
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C.
Albert Canal
The Albert Canal is a major Belgian waterway linking the Meuse River to the port of Antwerp, serving as an important route for inland shipping and freight transport.
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D.
Union Canal
The Union Canal is a historic Scottish waterway that links Edinburgh to the Forth & Clyde Canal near Falkirk, once vital for transporting coal and other goods and now used mainly for leisure boating and recreation.
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E.
Sió Canal
The Sió Canal is a man-made waterway in Hungary that regulates the water level of Lake Balaton and connects it to the Danube River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Caledonian Canal Description of subject: The Caledonian Canal is a historic waterway in the Scottish Highlands that links the east and west coasts by connecting a series of natural lochs through the Great Glen.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Great Glen waterway system
this entity surface form:
Great Glen waterway system
this entity surface form:
Caledonian Canal navigation channel
this entity surface form:
Caledonian Canal locks
this entity surface form:
Caledonian waterway system
this entity surface form:
Commissioners for the Caledonian Canal