Bosley Locks
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Bosley Locks is a historic flight of canal locks in Cheshire, England, that raises the Macclesfield Canal up the side of the Bosley Cloud hill.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bosley Locks canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4931887 — 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: Bosley Locks Context triple: [Macclesfield Canal, hasLockFlight, Bosley Locks]
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A.
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.
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B.
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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C.
Merrickville Locks
Merrickville Locks are a historic set of canal locks in Merrickville, Ontario, that form part of the UNESCO-listed Rideau Canal waterway.
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D.
Murray Lock and Dam
Murray Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Arkansas River near Little Rock, Arkansas, that helps regulate river flow and support commercial barge traffic.
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E.
Wheeler Lock and Dam
Wheeler Lock and Dam is a major navigation and hydroelectric structure on the Tennessee River in northern Alabama, forming Wheeler Lake and facilitating river traffic and power generation.
- 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: Bosley Locks Target entity description: Bosley Locks is a historic flight of canal locks in Cheshire, England, that raises the Macclesfield Canal up the side of the Bosley Cloud hill.
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A.
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.
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B.
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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C.
Merrickville Locks
Merrickville Locks are a historic set of canal locks in Merrickville, Ontario, that form part of the UNESCO-listed Rideau Canal waterway.
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D.
Murray Lock and Dam
Murray Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Arkansas River near Little Rock, Arkansas, that helps regulate river flow and support commercial barge traffic.
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E.
Wheeler Lock and Dam
Wheeler Lock and Dam is a major navigation and hydroelectric structure on the Tennessee River in northern Alabama, forming Wheeler Lake and facilitating river traffic and power generation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal infrastructure
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flight of canal locks ⓘ |
| constructionEnd | 1831 ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 1825 ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| designer | Thomas Telford ⓘ |
| elevationChangeFunction | raises canal up side of Bosley Cloud hill ⓘ |
| hasLockType | narrow lock ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | listed structure ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cheshire
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England ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Bosley
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Bosley Cloud ⓘ Congleton ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Canal & River Trust ⓘ |
| numberOfLocks | 12 ⓘ |
| onCanal | Macclesfield Canal ⓘ |
| opened | 1831 ⓘ |
| partOf | Macclesfield Canal ⓘ |
| raisesWaterway | Macclesfield Canal ⓘ |
| region | North West England ⓘ |
| waterwayType | narrow canal ⓘ |
| waterwayUse |
heritage tourism
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leisure boating ⓘ |
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: Bosley Locks Description of subject: Bosley Locks is a historic flight of canal locks in Cheshire, England, that raises the Macclesfield Canal up the side of the Bosley Cloud hill.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.