North Lock
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North Lock is one of the main navigation locks within the IJmuiden lock complex in the Netherlands, facilitating maritime access between the North Sea and the North Sea Canal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| North Lock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6617067 — 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: North Lock Context triple: [IJmuiden locks, hasPart, North Lock]
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A.
Point O’ Woods
Point O’ Woods is a private, historically exclusive summer community located on Fire Island off the southern coast of Long Island, New York.
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B.
Medlock Valley
Medlock Valley is a river valley and green corridor in Greater Manchester, England, known for its mix of urban, industrial heritage and regenerated natural landscapes along the River Medlock.
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C.
Rocky Bay
Rocky Bay is a small coastal settlement on Waiheke Island in New Zealand, known for its sheltered bay and residential community.
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D.
Calabogie
Calabogie is a small community in eastern Ontario, Canada, known for its lake, ski resort, and motorsports track.
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E.
Talkeetna
Talkeetna is a small Alaskan town known as a gateway and staging point for climbers and tourists visiting Denali and the surrounding wilderness.
- 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: North Lock Target entity description: North Lock is one of the main navigation locks within the IJmuiden lock complex in the Netherlands, facilitating maritime access between the North Sea and the North Sea Canal.
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A.
Point O’ Woods
Point O’ Woods is a private, historically exclusive summer community located on Fire Island off the southern coast of Long Island, New York.
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B.
Medlock Valley
Medlock Valley is a river valley and green corridor in Greater Manchester, England, known for its mix of urban, industrial heritage and regenerated natural landscapes along the River Medlock.
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C.
Rocky Bay
Rocky Bay is a small coastal settlement on Waiheke Island in New Zealand, known for its sheltered bay and residential community.
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D.
Calabogie
Calabogie is a small community in eastern Ontario, Canada, known for its lake, ski resort, and motorsports track.
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E.
Talkeetna
Talkeetna is a small Alaskan town known as a gateway and staging point for climbers and tourists visiting Denali and the surrounding wilderness.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
navigation lock
ⓘ
sea lock ⓘ |
| basinType | tidal lock basin ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
North Sea
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Sea Canal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Netherlands ⓘ |
| function | facilitates maritime access between the North Sea and the North Sea Canal ⓘ |
| hasPosition | northern part of the IJmuiden lock complex ⓘ |
| infrastructureType | hydraulic engineering structure ⓘ |
| isOneOf | main locks of the IJmuiden lock complex ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
IJmuiden
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
IJmuiden lock complex, IJmuiden, Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ North Holland ⓘ |
| locatedOn | approach channel to the port of Amsterdam ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Rijkswaterstaat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manages | water level differences between the North Sea and the North Sea Canal ⓘ |
| operator | Dutch water authorities ⓘ |
| partOf |
IJmuiden lock complex
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
port of Amsterdam access route ⓘ |
| purpose | ensure safe and efficient passage of vessels ⓘ |
| region | western Netherlands ⓘ |
| use |
commercial shipping
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inland navigation ⓘ maritime navigation ⓘ |
| waterway | North Sea Canal 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: North Lock Description of subject: North Lock is one of the main navigation locks within the IJmuiden lock complex in the Netherlands, facilitating maritime access between the North Sea and the North Sea Canal.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.