Lock CS18
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Lock CS18 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 CS18 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4723655 — 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 CS18 Context triple: [Cayuga–Seneca Canal, hasLock, Lock CS18]
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A.
Lock CS17
Lock CS17 is a navigation lock on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the waterway.
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B.
Lock CS8
Lock CS8 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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C.
Lock CS1
Lock CS1 is a navigation lock on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the waterway.
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D.
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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E.
Lock CS16
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.
- 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 CS18 Target entity description: Lock CS18 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 CS17
Lock CS17 is a navigation lock on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the waterway.
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B.
Lock CS8
Lock CS8 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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C.
Lock CS1
Lock CS1 is a navigation lock on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the waterway.
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D.
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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E.
Lock CS16
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal lock
ⓘ
navigation lock ⓘ |
| connectsToSystem |
Erie Canal (via New York State Canal System)
ⓘ
linked to:
Erie Canal
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| designedFor | vessel transit between different elevations ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
control mechanisms
ⓘ
gates ⓘ lock chamber ⓘ valves ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
navigation
ⓘ
water level control ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructureType | hydraulic engineering structure ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction |
State of New York
ⓘ
linked to:
New York State
|
| isPartOfRoute | inland navigation route in upstate New York ⓘ |
| isPublicInfrastructure | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cayuga–Seneca Canal
ⓘ
New York State ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterway | Cayuga–Seneca Canal ⓘ |
| openTo |
commercial boat traffic
ⓘ
recreational boat traffic ⓘ |
| operatedBy | New York State Canal Corporation ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cayuga–Seneca Canal lock system
ⓘ
linked to:
Cayuga–Seneca Canal locks
New York State Canal System ⓘ |
| usedFor |
lowering boats between different water levels
ⓘ
raising boats between different water levels ⓘ |
| watercraftTypeServed |
barges
ⓘ
motorboats ⓘ sailboats ⓘ |
| 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 CS18 Description of subject: Lock CS18 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.