Erie Canal Lock E-6
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Erie Canal Lock E-6 is a navigation lock on the Erie Canal located in Waterford, New York, that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the canal system.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Erie Canal Lock E-6 canonical | 1 |
| Erie Canal at the top of Lock E-6 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4733279 — 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: Erie Canal Lock E-6 Context triple: [Waterford, New York, hasLock, Erie Canal Lock E-6]
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A.
Erie Canal Lock E-2
Erie Canal Lock E-2 is a canal lock on the Erie Canal located in Waterford, New York, serving as part of the eastern entrance series of locks that raise boats from the Hudson River into the canal system.
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B.
Erie Canal Lock E-4
Erie Canal Lock E-4 is a navigation lock on the Erie Canal located in Waterford, New York, helping vessels transition between different water levels near the canal’s eastern terminus.
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C.
Lockport Lock and Dam
Lockport Lock and Dam is a major lock and dam complex on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal that controls water levels, aids navigation, and helps manage flood and wastewater flows between the Chicago area and the Des Plaines River.
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D.
Jones Falls Locks
Jones Falls Locks is a historic flight of canal locks on the Rideau Canal in Ontario, Canada, known for its impressive 19th-century engineering and scenic setting.
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E.
Fonserannes Locks
Fonserannes Locks is a historic multi-chamber lock staircase on the Canal du Midi near Béziers in southern France, renowned as one of the canal’s most impressive engineering works.
- 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: Erie Canal Lock E-6 Target entity description: Erie Canal Lock E-6 is a navigation lock on the Erie Canal located in Waterford, New York, that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the canal system.
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A.
Erie Canal Lock E-2
Erie Canal Lock E-2 is a canal lock on the Erie Canal located in Waterford, New York, serving as part of the eastern entrance series of locks that raise boats from the Hudson River into the canal system.
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B.
Erie Canal Lock E-4
Erie Canal Lock E-4 is a navigation lock on the Erie Canal located in Waterford, New York, helping vessels transition between different water levels near the canal’s eastern terminus.
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C.
Lockport Lock and Dam
Lockport Lock and Dam is a major lock and dam complex on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal that controls water levels, aids navigation, and helps manage flood and wastewater flows between the Chicago area and the Des Plaines River.
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D.
Jones Falls Locks
Jones Falls Locks is a historic flight of canal locks on the Rideau Canal in Ontario, Canada, known for its impressive 19th-century engineering and scenic setting.
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E.
Fonserannes Locks
Fonserannes Locks is a historic multi-chamber lock staircase on the Canal du Midi near Béziers in southern France, renowned as one of the canal’s most impressive engineering works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Erie Canal lock
ⓘ
navigation lock ⓘ |
| connects |
adjacent higher or lower canal pool
ⓘ
lower Erie Canal reach near Waterford ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| function | raise and lower vessels between different water levels ⓘ |
| hasAccess | by service roads near Waterford, New York ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
control mechanisms for water level adjustment
ⓘ
gates at each end of the lock chamber ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructureType | concrete lock chamber ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New York State
ⓘ
Saratoga County, New York ⓘ
linked to:
Saratoga County
Waterford, New York ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterway | Erie Canal ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | New York State Canal Corporation ⓘ |
| navigationSystem |
Erie Canal navigation system
ⓘ
linked to:
New York State Canal System
|
| openingFor | seasonal navigation ⓘ |
| owner |
State of New York
ⓘ
linked to:
New York State
|
| partOf |
New York State Canal System
ⓘ
flight of locks near Waterford ⓘ |
| regionServed | Capital District of New York ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial vessel traffic
ⓘ
inland navigation ⓘ recreational boating ⓘ |
| waterwayType | 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: Erie Canal Lock E-6 Description of subject: Erie Canal Lock E-6 is a navigation lock on the Erie Canal located in Waterford, New York, that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the canal system.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.