Canada Dock (historic dock name)
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Canada Dock was a former dock in London’s Surrey Commercial Docks complex, historically used for trade with Canada and later redeveloped into what is now known as Canada Water.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Canada Dock (historic dock name) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7805017 — 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: Canada Dock (historic dock name) Context triple: [Canada Water, London, namedAfter, Canada Dock (historic dock name)]
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A.
Eastern Docks
Eastern Docks is a major section of the Port of Southampton in England, known for its extensive cargo and passenger shipping facilities.
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B.
Eastern Docks
Eastern Docks is the main ferry terminal complex at the Port of Dover, handling a large volume of cross-Channel passenger and vehicle traffic between the UK and continental Europe.
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C.
Alexandra Dock
Alexandra Dock is a major commercial dock in Kingston upon Hull, England, historically important for handling cargo and supporting the city's maritime trade.
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D.
Alexandra Dock
Alexandra Dock is a major dock facility within the Port of Liverpool, historically important for handling cargo and supporting the city’s maritime trade.
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E.
Eastern Dock
Eastern Dock was a principal basin within the historic London Docks complex in east London, used for maritime trade and cargo handling during the height of the city's port activity.
- 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: Canada Dock (historic dock name) Target entity description: Canada Dock was a former dock in London’s Surrey Commercial Docks complex, historically used for trade with Canada and later redeveloped into what is now known as Canada Water.
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A.
Eastern Docks
Eastern Docks is a major section of the Port of Southampton in England, known for its extensive cargo and passenger shipping facilities.
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B.
Eastern Docks
Eastern Docks is the main ferry terminal complex at the Port of Dover, handling a large volume of cross-Channel passenger and vehicle traffic between the UK and continental Europe.
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C.
Alexandra Dock
Alexandra Dock is a major commercial dock in Kingston upon Hull, England, historically important for handling cargo and supporting the city's maritime trade.
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D.
Alexandra Dock
Alexandra Dock is a major dock facility within the Port of Liverpool, historically important for handling cargo and supporting the city’s maritime trade.
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E.
Eastern Dock
Eastern Dock was a principal basin within the historic London Docks complex in east London, used for maritime trade and cargo handling during the height of the city's port activity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dock
ⓘ
historic dock ⓘ |
| basinType | wet dock ⓘ |
| bodyOfWater | former dock basin ⓘ |
| connectedTo | other Surrey Commercial Docks ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| historicalFunction | commercial dock ⓘ |
| historicalUse |
import of Canadian goods
ⓘ
storage of timber ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
Rotherhithe ⓘ Surrey Commercial Docks ⓘ
linked to:
Surrey Docks
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedInBorough | London Borough of Southwark ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Canada ⓘ |
| partOf |
Port of London dock system
ⓘ
linked to:
Port of London
Surrey Commercial Docks complex ⓘ
linked to:
Surrey Docks
|
| redevelopedInto | Canada Water ⓘ |
| redevelopmentLocation | Canada Water, London ⓘ |
| servedPort | Port of London ⓘ |
| servedRegion | Canada ⓘ |
| status |
closed
ⓘ
redeveloped ⓘ |
| successor | Canada Water underground station vicinity ⓘ |
| urbanContext |
Docklands area of London
ⓘ
linked to:
London Docklands
|
| usedFor |
shipping
ⓘ
timber trade ⓘ trade with Canada ⓘ |
| waterAreaNowKnownAs | Canada Water ⓘ |
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: Canada Dock (historic dock name) Description of subject: Canada Dock was a former dock in London’s Surrey Commercial Docks complex, historically used for trade with Canada and later redeveloped into what is now known as Canada Water.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.