Lock CS16
E479925
Lock CS16 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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lock CS16 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4723653 — 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 CS16 Context triple: [Cayuga–Seneca Canal, hasLock, Lock CS16]
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A.
Lock CS14
Lock CS14 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 CS15
Lock CS15 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 CS12
Lock CS12 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 CS13
Lock CS13 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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E.
Lock CS10
Lock CS10 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, helping vessels transition between different water levels along the waterway.
- 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 CS16 Target entity description: Lock CS16 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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A.
Lock CS14
Lock CS14 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 CS15
Lock CS15 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 CS12
Lock CS12 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 CS13
Lock CS13 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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E.
Lock CS10
Lock CS10 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, helping vessels transition between different water levels along the waterway.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal lock
ⓘ
navigation lock ⓘ |
| connects | two different canal pool elevations ⓘ |
| hasAccess | by water only ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
control mechanisms
ⓘ
gates ⓘ lock chamber ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
navigation aids
ⓘ
water level control ⓘ |
| hasFunction | navigation ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructureType | water transport infrastructure ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction |
State of New York
ⓘ
linked to:
New York State
|
| hasMaintenanceResponsibility | New York State Canal Corporation ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cayuga–Seneca Canal
ⓘ
New York State ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| openTo | boat traffic ⓘ |
| operatedBy | New York State Canal Corporation ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cayuga–Seneca Canal lock system
ⓘ
linked to:
Cayuga–Seneca Canal
New York State Canal System ⓘ |
| usedBy |
commercial vessels
ⓘ
recreational vessels ⓘ |
| usedFor |
lowering boats between different water levels
ⓘ
raising boats between different water levels ⓘ |
| waterwayTypeServed | inland waterway ⓘ |
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 CS16 Description of subject: Lock CS16 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.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.