Shannon Navigation
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Shannon Navigation is the managed waterway system of Ireland’s River Shannon, comprising locks, channels, and related infrastructure that enable safe and continuous inland boating and commercial navigation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shannon Navigation canonical | 6 |
| Shannon navigation network | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6346733 — 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: Shannon Navigation Context triple: [Athlone Lock, partOf, Shannon Navigation]
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A.
Douglas Navigation
Douglas Navigation was an 18th-century canalised waterway in Lancashire, England, created by improving the River Douglas to allow the transport of coal and other goods before being superseded by later canal developments.
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B.
Straight Wharf
Straight Wharf is a historic and central waterfront pier and commercial area on Nantucket Island, serving as a key hub for ferries, fishing vessels, and harborfront shops.
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C.
Sparkman Channel
Sparkman Channel is a waterway in Tampa, Florida, that forms part of the city’s port and harbor system near downtown and the Channelside district.
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D.
Port Tennant
Port Tennant is a residential and industrial district of Swansea in South Wales, situated near the city’s docks and eastern waterfront.
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E.
Rock Island Passage
Rock Island Passage is a navigable waterway in Lake Michigan near Wisconsin’s Door Peninsula, known for its scenic but sometimes treacherous channel between Rock Island and the surrounding islands.
- 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: Shannon Navigation Target entity description: Shannon Navigation is the managed waterway system of Ireland’s River Shannon, comprising locks, channels, and related infrastructure that enable safe and continuous inland boating and commercial navigation.
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A.
Douglas Navigation
Douglas Navigation was an 18th-century canalised waterway in Lancashire, England, created by improving the River Douglas to allow the transport of coal and other goods before being superseded by later canal developments.
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B.
Straight Wharf
Straight Wharf is a historic and central waterfront pier and commercial area on Nantucket Island, serving as a key hub for ferries, fishing vessels, and harborfront shops.
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C.
Sparkman Channel
Sparkman Channel is a waterway in Tampa, Florida, that forms part of the city’s port and harbor system near downtown and the Channelside district.
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D.
Port Tennant
Port Tennant is a residential and industrial district of Swansea in South Wales, situated near the city’s docks and eastern waterfront.
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E.
Rock Island Passage
Rock Island Passage is a navigable waterway in Lake Michigan near Wisconsin’s Door Peninsula, known for its scenic but sometimes treacherous channel between Rock Island and the surrounding islands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
inland navigation waterway
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waterway system ⓘ |
| connects |
Grand Canal
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Lough Allen ⓘ Lough Derg ⓘ Lough Ree ⓘ Royal Canal ⓘ Shannon Estuary ⓘ Shannon–Erne Waterway ⓘ |
| country | Ireland ⓘ |
| follows | River Shannon ⓘ |
| hasLegalStatus | statutory navigation ⓘ |
| hasPart |
aids to navigation
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dredged channels ⓘ embankments ⓘ harbours ⓘ jetties ⓘ navigation channels ⓘ navigation locks ⓘ piers ⓘ sluices ⓘ towpaths ⓘ weirs ⓘ |
| historicalUse |
commercial navigation
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freight transport ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
County Clare
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County Galway ⓘ County Leitrim ⓘ County Limerick ⓘ County Longford ⓘ County Offaly ⓘ County Roscommon ⓘ County Tipperary ⓘ County Westmeath ⓘ River Shannon basin ⓘ
linked to:
River Shannon
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| managingAuthority | Waterways Ireland ⓘ |
| operator | Waterways Ireland ⓘ |
| partOf | Ireland’s inland waterways network ⓘ |
| purpose |
to maintain continuous navigable depth
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to provide safe inland navigation ⓘ to support regional economic development ⓘ |
| regulates | water levels for navigation ⓘ |
| use |
angling access
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inland cruising ⓘ recreational boating ⓘ tourism ⓘ water-based leisure activities ⓘ |
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: Shannon Navigation Description of subject: Shannon Navigation is the managed waterway system of Ireland’s River Shannon, comprising locks, channels, and related infrastructure that enable safe and continuous inland boating and commercial navigation.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Shannon Navigation