Claiborne Lock and Dam
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Claiborne Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Alabama River in Alabama, United States.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Claiborne Lock and Dam canonical | 1 |
| Demopolis Lock and Dam area | 1 |
| Millers Ferry Lock and Dam | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6492039 — 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: Claiborne Lock and Dam Context triple: [Alabama River, hasLockAndDam, Claiborne Lock and Dam]
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A.
Alton Lock and Dam
Alton Lock and Dam is a major navigation and flood-control structure on the Mississippi River that helps regulate river traffic and water levels as part of the Illinois Waterway system.
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B.
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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C.
Dresden Island Lock and Dam
Dresden Island Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Illinois Waterway that helps regulate river levels and facilitate barge traffic in northeastern Illinois.
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D.
Dardanelle Lock and Dam
Dardanelle Lock and Dam is a major navigation and hydroelectric structure on the Arkansas River in Arkansas, forming part of the McClellan–Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System.
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E.
McNary Lock and Dam
McNary Lock and Dam is a navigation lock facility integrated into the McNary Dam complex on the Columbia River, enabling river traffic to bypass the dam.
- 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: Claiborne Lock and Dam Target entity description: Claiborne Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Alabama River in Alabama, United States.
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A.
Alton Lock and Dam
Alton Lock and Dam is a major navigation and flood-control structure on the Mississippi River that helps regulate river traffic and water levels as part of the Illinois Waterway system.
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B.
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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C.
Dresden Island Lock and Dam
Dresden Island Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Illinois Waterway that helps regulate river levels and facilitate barge traffic in northeastern Illinois.
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D.
Dardanelle Lock and Dam
Dardanelle Lock and Dam is a major navigation and hydroelectric structure on the Arkansas River in Arkansas, forming part of the McClellan–Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System.
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E.
McNary Lock and Dam
McNary Lock and Dam is a navigation lock facility integrated into the McNary Dam complex on the Columbia River, enabling river traffic to bypass the dam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flood-control structure
ⓘ
lock and dam ⓘ navigation structure ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| constructionBegan | 1963 ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createsReservoir | Claiborne Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 23 meters above sea level ⓘ |
| hasDam | Claiborne Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
maintenance of navigable channel
ⓘ
regulation of river flow ⓘ water level control ⓘ |
| hasLock | Claiborne Lock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRecreationArea | Claiborne Lake recreation areas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| infrastructureType |
civil engineering structure
ⓘ
waterway infrastructure ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States government
ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal government
|
| locatedIn | Alabama ⓘ |
| locatedInCounty | Monroe County, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInState | Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInWatershed | Mobile River basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Claiborne, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Alabama River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| navigationSystem | Alabama River navigation system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyCity | Monroeville, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyFeature | U.S. Highway 84 bridge over the Alabama River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1971 ⓘ |
| operator | United States Army Corps of Engineers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | United States Army Corps of Engineers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | United States inland waterway system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose |
flood control
ⓘ
hydroelectric power generation ⓘ navigation ⓘ |
| region | Southern United States ⓘ |
| reservoirLocatedIn | Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reservoirName | Claiborne Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial navigation
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flood mitigation ⓘ recreational boating ⓘ |
| watercourse | Alabama River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Claiborne Lock and Dam Description of subject: Claiborne Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Alabama River in Alabama, United States.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Millers Ferry Lock and Dam
this entity surface form:
Demopolis Lock and Dam area