Ice Harbor Lock
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Ice Harbor Lock is the navigation lock facility at Ice Harbor Dam on the Snake River that enables commercial and recreational vessels to pass between different water levels.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ice Harbor Dam navigation lock | 2 |
| Ice Harbor Lock canonical | 1 |
| Ice Harbor Lock and Dam | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9346275 — 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: Ice Harbor Lock Context triple: [Ice Harbor Dam, hasNavigationLock, Ice Harbor Lock]
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A.
Ballard Locks
Ballard Locks, officially known as the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, is a major lock system in Seattle that manages boat traffic and water levels between the freshwater lakes and the saltwater Puget Sound.
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B.
MacArthur Lock
MacArthur Lock is one of the major ship locks at the Soo Locks complex in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, enabling large vessels to transit between Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes.
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C.
Jones Falls Locks
Jones Falls Locks is a historic flight of canal locks on the Rideau Canal in Ontario, Canada, known for its impressive 19th-century engineering and scenic setting.
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D.
Wheeler Lock and Dam
Wheeler Lock and Dam is a major navigation and hydroelectric structure on the Tennessee River in northern Alabama, forming Wheeler Lake and facilitating river traffic and power generation.
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E.
Poe Lock
Poe Lock is one of the major ship locks at the Soo Locks complex in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, enabling large commercial vessels to transit between Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes.
- 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: Ice Harbor Lock Target entity description: Ice Harbor Lock is the navigation lock facility at Ice Harbor Dam on the Snake River that enables commercial and recreational vessels to pass between different water levels.
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A.
Ballard Locks
Ballard Locks, officially known as the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, is a major lock system in Seattle that manages boat traffic and water levels between the freshwater lakes and the saltwater Puget Sound.
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B.
MacArthur Lock
MacArthur Lock is one of the major ship locks at the Soo Locks complex in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, enabling large vessels to transit between Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes.
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C.
Jones Falls Locks
Jones Falls Locks is a historic flight of canal locks on the Rideau Canal in Ontario, Canada, known for its impressive 19th-century engineering and scenic setting.
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D.
Wheeler Lock and Dam
Wheeler Lock and Dam is a major navigation and hydroelectric structure on the Tennessee River in northern Alabama, forming Wheeler Lake and facilitating river traffic and power generation.
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E.
Poe Lock
Poe Lock is one of the major ship locks at the Soo Locks complex in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, enabling large commercial vessels to transit between Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
navigation lock
ⓘ
waterway infrastructure ⓘ |
| associatedWithStructure | Ice Harbor Dam ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| belongsToCategory |
Locks of the United States
ⓘ
Snake River infrastructure ⓘ Transportation infrastructure in Washington State ⓘ |
| constructionAssociatedWith |
Ice Harbor Dam project
ⓘ
linked to:
Ice Harbor Dam
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| crosses | Snake River ⓘ |
| enablesPassageOf |
commercial vessels
ⓘ
recreational vessels ⓘ |
| hasFeature | chamber for vessel elevation change ⓘ |
| hasFunction | raise and lower vessels between different water levels ⓘ |
| isComponentOf | federal navigation project on the Snake River ⓘ |
| locatedDownstreamFrom | Lower Monumental Dam ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Washington State
ⓘ
linked to:
Washington
|
| locatedInCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locatedNear |
Burbank, Washington
ⓘ
Pasco, Washington ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterway | Snake River ⓘ |
| locatedUpstreamFrom | McNary Dam ⓘ |
| operatedBy | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Walla Walla District ⓘ |
| operator | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ⓘ |
| partOf | Ice Harbor Dam ⓘ |
| partOfSystem |
Columbia–Snake River inland waterway system
ⓘ
linked to:
Columbia–Snake River System
Snake River navigation system ⓘ
linked to:
Columbia–Snake River lock system
|
| purpose |
commercial navigation
ⓘ
navigation ⓘ recreational navigation ⓘ |
| region | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| usedFor |
barge traffic
ⓘ
recreational boating ⓘ tug and tow operations ⓘ |
| watercourse | Snake River ⓘ |
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: Ice Harbor Lock Description of subject: Ice Harbor Lock is the navigation lock facility at Ice Harbor Dam on the Snake River that enables commercial and recreational vessels to pass between different water levels.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ice Harbor Lock
linked to: Ice Harbor Lock
linked to: Ice Harbor Lock