Lock CS25
E478821
Lock CS25 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, helping vessels transition between different water levels along the canal route.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lock CS25 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4723662 — 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 CS25 Context triple: [Cayuga–Seneca Canal, hasLock, Lock CS25]
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A.
Lock CS22
Lock CS22 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels along the waterway.
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B.
Lock CS20
Lock CS20 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels along the waterway.
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C.
Lock CS21
Lock CS21 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels along the waterway.
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D.
Lock CS23
Lock CS23 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, helping vessels transition between different water levels along the canal route.
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E.
Lock CS24
Lock CS24 is a navigation lock on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the canal.
- 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 CS25 Target entity description: Lock CS25 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, helping vessels transition between different water levels along the canal route.
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A.
Lock CS22
Lock CS22 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels along the waterway.
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B.
Lock CS20
Lock CS20 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels along the waterway.
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C.
Lock CS21
Lock CS21 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels along the waterway.
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D.
Lock CS23
Lock CS23 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, helping vessels transition between different water levels along the canal route.
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E.
Lock CS24
Lock CS24 is a navigation lock on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the canal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal lock
ⓘ
navigation lock ⓘ |
| connects |
downstream reach of Cayuga–Seneca Canal
ⓘ
upstream reach of Cayuga–Seneca Canal ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
control mechanisms
ⓘ
lock chamber ⓘ lock gates ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
enables vessel passage between different water levels
ⓘ
supports inland navigation ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructureType | waterway infrastructure ⓘ |
| hasNavigationRole | facilitates through-transit on Cayuga–Seneca Canal ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
to maintain navigable water levels for vessels
ⓘ
to manage elevation change along the Cayuga–Seneca Canal ⓘ |
| hasTransportationMode | water transport ⓘ |
| isEngineeredStructure | hydraulic engineering work ⓘ |
| isNumberedAs | CS25 ⓘ |
| isPartOfNetwork |
Erie Canal and associated canals network
ⓘ
linked to:
New York State Canal System
|
| locatedIn |
Cayuga–Seneca Canal
ⓘ
New York State ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| operatedBy | New York State Canal Corporation ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
State of New York
ⓘ
linked to:
New York State
|
| partOf |
Cayuga–Seneca Canal lock system
ⓘ
linked to:
Cayuga–Seneca Canal
New York State Canal System ⓘ |
| supportsVesselType |
pleasure craft
ⓘ
small commercial vessels ⓘ |
| usedFor |
boat traffic
ⓘ
commercial navigation ⓘ recreational boating ⓘ |
| waterwayTypeServed | 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 CS25 Description of subject: Lock CS25 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, helping vessels transition between different water levels along the canal route.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.