Aylestone Mill Lock
E463983
Aylestone Mill Lock is a canal lock on the River Soar in Leicester, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat navigation along the waterway.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aylestone Mill Lock canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4652064 — 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: Aylestone Mill Lock Context triple: [River Soar, hasLock, Aylestone Mill Lock]
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A.
Catteshall Lock
Catteshall Lock is a historic navigation lock on the River Wey in Surrey, England, forming part of one of the country’s earliest commercial waterways.
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B.
Saltersford Lock
Saltersford Lock is a navigation lock on the River Weaver in Cheshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
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C.
Stoke Lock
Stoke Lock is a navigation lock on the River Wey in Surrey, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the waterway.
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D.
Allington Lock
Allington Lock is a key navigation and flood-control lock on the River Medway in Kent, England, marking the tidal limit of the river.
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E.
Kirkstead Lock
Kirkstead Lock is a navigation lock on the River Witham in Lincolnshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the 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: Aylestone Mill Lock Target entity description: Aylestone Mill Lock is a canal lock on the River Soar in Leicester, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat navigation along the waterway.
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A.
Catteshall Lock
Catteshall Lock is a historic navigation lock on the River Wey in Surrey, England, forming part of one of the country’s earliest commercial waterways.
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B.
Saltersford Lock
Saltersford Lock is a navigation lock on the River Weaver in Cheshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
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C.
Stoke Lock
Stoke Lock is a navigation lock on the River Wey in Surrey, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the waterway.
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D.
Allington Lock
Allington Lock is a key navigation and flood-control lock on the River Medway in Kent, England, marking the tidal limit of the river.
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E.
Kirkstead Lock
Kirkstead Lock is a navigation lock on the River Witham in Lincolnshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal lock
ⓘ
navigation lock ⓘ |
| administrativeArea |
City of Leicester
ⓘ
linked to:
Leicester
|
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| function | to raise and lower boats between stretches of water of different levels ⓘ |
| hasAccess | towpath ⓘ |
| hasNearbyFeature |
Aylestone Meadows
ⓘ
Aylestone Mill ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
navigation safety
ⓘ
water level control ⓘ |
| hasStructureType | chamber lock ⓘ |
| isPartOf | British canal system ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Aylestone
ⓘ
England ⓘ Leicester ⓘ Leicestershire ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Soar Valley waterway corridor
ⓘ
linked to:
Soar Valley waterways network
|
| manages | water levels ⓘ |
| near |
Leicester city centre
ⓘ
linked to:
Leicester
|
| operatedIn | freshwater environment ⓘ |
| partOf |
Grand Union Canal network
ⓘ
linked to:
Grand Union Canal
River Soar navigation ⓘ |
| region | East Midlands ⓘ |
| usedBy |
canal boats
ⓘ
narrowboats ⓘ pleasure craft ⓘ |
| usedFor |
boat navigation
ⓘ
inland water transport ⓘ |
| waterway | River Soar ⓘ |
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: Aylestone Mill Lock Description of subject: Aylestone Mill Lock is a canal lock on the River Soar in Leicester, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat navigation along the waterway.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.