Lock O-8
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Lock O-8 is one of the numbered navigation locks on New York State’s Oswego Canal, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels along the waterway.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lock O-8 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4587866 — 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: Lock O-8 Context triple: [Oswego Canal, hasLock, Lock O-8]
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A.
Lock O-1
Lock O-1 is a navigation lock on New York State’s Oswego Canal that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the waterway.
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B.
Lock O-7
Lock O-7 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Oswego Canal, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels along the waterway.
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C.
Lock O-2
Lock O-2 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Oswego Canal, helping vessels transit between different water levels along the waterway.
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D.
Lock O-3
Lock O-3 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Oswego Canal, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels along the waterway.
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E.
Lock O-4
Lock O-4 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Oswego Canal, used to raise and lower boats as they travel between the Erie Canal and Lake Ontario.
- 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: Lock O-8 Target entity description: Lock O-8 is one of the numbered navigation locks on New York State’s Oswego Canal, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels along the waterway.
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A.
Lock O-1
Lock O-1 is a navigation lock on New York State’s Oswego Canal that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the waterway.
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B.
Lock O-7
Lock O-7 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Oswego Canal, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels along the waterway.
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C.
Lock O-2
Lock O-2 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Oswego Canal, helping vessels transit between different water levels along the waterway.
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D.
Lock O-3
Lock O-3 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Oswego Canal, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels along the waterway.
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E.
Lock O-4
Lock O-4 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Oswego Canal, used to raise and lower boats as they travel between the Erie Canal and Lake Ontario.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal lock
ⓘ
infrastructure ⓘ navigation lock ⓘ |
| connects | different water levels of the Oswego Canal ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasFunction | water level control for navigation ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructureType |
control mechanisms
ⓘ
gates ⓘ lock chamber ⓘ |
| hasNumber | O-8 ⓘ |
| isPartOfRoute |
Erie–Oswego canal network
ⓘ
linked to:
Oswego Canal
|
| locatedIn |
New York State
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locatedOnWaterway | Oswego River ⓘ |
| operator | New York State Canal Corporation ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
State of New York
ⓘ
linked to:
New York State
|
| partOf |
New York State Canal System
ⓘ
Oswego Canal ⓘ |
| region |
Upstate New York
ⓘ
linked to:
Upstate New York (broad sense)
|
| usedBy |
commercial vessels
ⓘ
recreational boats ⓘ |
| usedFor |
lowering boats between different water levels
ⓘ
navigation ⓘ raising boats between different water levels ⓘ |
| waterway | Oswego 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: Lock O-8 Description of subject: Lock O-8 is one of the numbered navigation locks on New York State’s Oswego Canal, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels along the waterway.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.