Minden Aqueduct
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The Minden Aqueduct is a large navigable aqueduct in Germany that carries the Mittelland Canal over the River Weser near the town of Minden.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Minden Aqueduct canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7500423 — 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: Minden Aqueduct Context triple: [Minden, hasLandmark, Minden Aqueduct]
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A.
Chirk Aqueduct
Chirk Aqueduct is a historic early-19th-century navigable aqueduct in Wales, designed by Thomas Telford to carry the Llangollen Canal across the River Ceiriog near the town of Chirk.
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B.
Kelvin Aqueduct
Kelvin Aqueduct is a historic canal aqueduct in Glasgow, Scotland, that carries the Forth and Clyde Canal over the River Kelvin.
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C.
Almond Aqueduct
Almond Aqueduct is a historic stone aqueduct in Scotland that carries the Union Canal over the River Almond near Edinburgh.
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D.
Wigwell Aqueduct
Wigwell Aqueduct is a historic stone-built waterway structure in Derbyshire, England, carrying the Cromford Canal over the Wigwell valley.
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E.
Avon Aqueduct
The Avon Aqueduct is a historic 19th-century Scottish aqueduct that carries the Union Canal over the River Avon near Linlithgow, and is one of the largest aqueducts of its kind in the United Kingdom.
- 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: Minden Aqueduct Target entity description: The Minden Aqueduct is a large navigable aqueduct in Germany that carries the Mittelland Canal over the River Weser near the town of Minden.
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A.
Chirk Aqueduct
Chirk Aqueduct is a historic early-19th-century navigable aqueduct in Wales, designed by Thomas Telford to carry the Llangollen Canal across the River Ceiriog near the town of Chirk.
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B.
Kelvin Aqueduct
Kelvin Aqueduct is a historic canal aqueduct in Glasgow, Scotland, that carries the Forth and Clyde Canal over the River Kelvin.
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C.
Almond Aqueduct
Almond Aqueduct is a historic stone aqueduct in Scotland that carries the Union Canal over the River Almond near Edinburgh.
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D.
Wigwell Aqueduct
Wigwell Aqueduct is a historic stone-built waterway structure in Derbyshire, England, carrying the Cromford Canal over the Wigwell valley.
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E.
Avon Aqueduct
The Avon Aqueduct is a historic 19th-century Scottish aqueduct that carries the Union Canal over the River Avon near Linlithgow, and is one of the largest aqueducts of its kind in the United Kingdom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
navigable aqueduct
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water bridge ⓘ |
| bridgeType | aqueduct bridge ⓘ |
| carries | Mittelland Canal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connects |
eastern section of Mittelland Canal
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western section of Mittelland Canal ⓘ |
| country | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crosses | River Weser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crossesNear | Minden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crossesRiver | Weser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crossingType | canal over river ⓘ |
| function | carries canal traffic over the River Weser ⓘ |
| GermanName | Wasserstraßenkreuz Minden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | German ⓘ |
| heritageSignificance | important structure of German inland waterways ⓘ |
| isPartOf | German federal waterways network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Germany
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Minden NERFINISHED ⓘ North Rhine-Westphalia ⓘ |
| locatedInBasin | Weser basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | Federal Republic of Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterway | Mittelland Canal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | town of Minden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | large navigable aqueduct structure ⓘ |
| partOf | Mittelland Canal system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Ostwestfalen-Lippe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transportType | waterborne traffic ⓘ |
| usedFor |
inland waterway transport
ⓘ
navigation ⓘ |
| waterwayType | aqueduct ⓘ |
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: Minden Aqueduct Description of subject: The Minden Aqueduct is a large navigable aqueduct in Germany that carries the Mittelland Canal over the River Weser near the town of Minden.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.