Mode Wheel Lock
E4164
Mode Wheel Lock is a canal lock on the Manchester Ship Canal in northwest England, used to manage water levels and vessel passage along the waterway.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mode Wheel Lock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T46567 — 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: Mode Wheel Lock Context triple: [Manchester Ship Canal, hasLock, Mode Wheel Lock]
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A.
Ventra
Ventra is the contactless fare payment system used across Chicago’s public transit network, including buses and trains.
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B.
A Loop
A Loop is a modern streetcar route in Portland, Oregon, that provides circulator service through the central city and adjacent neighborhoods as part of the Portland Streetcar system.
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C.
Lever Act
Lever Act is the common name for the 1917 U.S. wartime law that gave the federal government broad powers to control food and fuel production, distribution, and pricing during World War I.
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D.
Cloud Gate
Cloud Gate is a famous stainless-steel public sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor, known for its reflective, bean-like shape and prominence in Chicago’s Millennium Park.
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E.
Heavenly Gondola
Heavenly Gondola is a scenic aerial tramway at Heavenly Mountain Resort that transports visitors between South Lake Tahoe and the resort’s mountain slopes, offering panoramic views of the lake and surrounding Sierra Nevada.
- 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: Mode Wheel Lock Target entity description: Mode Wheel Lock is a canal lock on the Manchester Ship Canal in northwest England, used to manage water levels and vessel passage along the waterway.
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A.
Ventra
Ventra is the contactless fare payment system used across Chicago’s public transit network, including buses and trains.
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B.
A Loop
A Loop is a modern streetcar route in Portland, Oregon, that provides circulator service through the central city and adjacent neighborhoods as part of the Portland Streetcar system.
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C.
Lever Act
Lever Act is the common name for the 1917 U.S. wartime law that gave the federal government broad powers to control food and fuel production, distribution, and pricing during World War I.
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D.
Cloud Gate
Cloud Gate is a famous stainless-steel public sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor, known for its reflective, bean-like shape and prominence in Chicago’s Millennium Park.
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E.
Heavenly Gondola
Heavenly Gondola is a scenic aerial tramway at Heavenly Mountain Resort that transports visitors between South Lake Tahoe and the resort’s mountain slopes, offering panoramic views of the lake and surrounding Sierra Nevada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal lock
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infrastructure ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasAccessRestriction | used by vessels authorized to navigate the Manchester Ship Canal ⓘ |
| hasFunction | to raise and lower vessels between different water levels ⓘ |
| hasNavigationRole |
controlling vessel traffic
ⓘ
enabling passage between canal reaches of different levels ⓘ |
| isBuiltFor |
cargo vessels
ⓘ
commercial shipping ⓘ other canal traffic ⓘ |
| isEngineeringStructureOn | Manchester Ship Canal ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
Manchester Ship Canal ⓘ North West England ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedInWaterSystem |
Manchester Ship Canal
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surface form:
Manchester Ship Canal waterway system
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| maintains | navigable depth on the Manchester Ship Canal ⓘ |
| manages | water levels ⓘ |
| partOf | Manchester Ship Canal infrastructure ⓘ |
| region | North West England ⓘ |
| usedFor |
managing water levels
ⓘ
navigation control ⓘ vessel passage ⓘ |
| waterway | Manchester Ship Canal ⓘ |
| waterwayTypeServed | ship canal ⓘ |
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: Mode Wheel Lock Description of subject: Mode Wheel Lock is a canal lock on the Manchester Ship Canal in northwest England, used to manage water levels and vessel passage along the waterway.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.