Irish inland waterways network
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The Irish inland waterways network is an interconnected system of rivers, canals, and lakes across Ireland used for navigation, recreation, and heritage tourism.
All labels observed (5)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6367933 — 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: Irish inland waterways network Context triple: [Meelick Lock, isPartOf, Irish inland waterways network]
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A.
Waterways Ireland
Waterways Ireland is a cross-border public body responsible for managing and promoting inland navigable waterways across both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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B.
Royal Canal
The Royal Canal is a historic Irish waterway running from Dublin to the River Shannon, once vital for transport and now popular for leisure boating and walking.
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C.
Athlone Weir
Athlone Weir is a river weir on the River Shannon in Athlone, Ireland, helping to control water levels and flow near the town’s lock and bridge.
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D.
Newry Canal
Newry Canal is a historic waterway in Northern Ireland, notable as one of the first summit-level canals in the British Isles, built to link the town of Newry with Lough Neagh and facilitate trade.
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E.
Waterford Flight of Locks
The Waterford Flight of Locks is a historic series of canal locks in Waterford, New York, that forms one of the highest set of lift locks in the world and a key feature of the Erie Canal system.
- 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: Irish inland waterways network Target entity description: The Irish inland waterways network is an interconnected system of rivers, canals, and lakes across Ireland used for navigation, recreation, and heritage tourism.
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A.
Waterways Ireland
Waterways Ireland is a cross-border public body responsible for managing and promoting inland navigable waterways across both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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B.
Royal Canal
The Royal Canal is a historic Irish waterway running from Dublin to the River Shannon, once vital for transport and now popular for leisure boating and walking.
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C.
Athlone Weir
Athlone Weir is a river weir on the River Shannon in Athlone, Ireland, helping to control water levels and flow near the town’s lock and bridge.
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D.
Newry Canal
Newry Canal is a historic waterway in Northern Ireland, notable as one of the first summit-level canals in the British Isles, built to link the town of Newry with Lough Neagh and facilitate trade.
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E.
Waterford Flight of Locks
The Waterford Flight of Locks is a historic series of canal locks in Waterford, New York, that forms one of the highest set of lift locks in the world and a key feature of the Erie Canal system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
transport infrastructure
ⓘ
waterway network ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
Irish Sea ⓘ |
| country | Ireland ⓘ |
| currentUse |
leisure navigation
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| developedDuring |
18th century
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19th century ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
canal bridges
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harbours ⓘ locks ⓘ marinas ⓘ sluices ⓘ towpaths ⓘ weirs ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus |
cultural heritage
ⓘ
industrial heritage ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Barrow Navigation
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Grand Canal ⓘ Lough Allen ⓘ Lough Derg ⓘ Lough Erne ⓘ Lough Ree ⓘ Lower Bann Navigation ⓘ River Barrow ⓘ River Erne ⓘ River Lee ⓘ River Liffey ⓘ River Shannon ⓘ River Suir ⓘ Royal Canal ⓘ Shannon–Erne Waterway ⓘ Shannon–Fergus Estuary ⓘ
linked to:
Fergus Estuary
|
| historicalUse |
commercial navigation
ⓘ
freight transport ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Northern Ireland
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Republic of Ireland ⓘ |
| managedBy | Waterways Ireland ⓘ |
| partOf |
Irish tourism infrastructure
ⓘ
Irish transport network ⓘ |
| usedFor |
angling
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boating ⓘ cruising ⓘ heritage tourism ⓘ navigation ⓘ recreation ⓘ watersports ⓘ |
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: Irish inland waterways network Description of subject: The Irish inland waterways network is an interconnected system of rivers, canals, and lakes across Ireland used for navigation, recreation, and heritage tourism.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Grand Canal
linked to: Irish inland waterways network
linked to: Irish inland waterways network
linked to: Irish inland waterways network
linked to: Irish inland waterways network