John C. Stennis Lock and Dam
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John C. Stennis Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Tombigbee River in Mississippi, named after U.S. Senator John C. Stennis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John C. Stennis Lock and Dam canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10151562 — 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: John C. Stennis Lock and Dam Context triple: [Tombigbee River, hasLockAndDam, John C. Stennis Lock and Dam]
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A.
Claiborne Lock and Dam
Claiborne Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Alabama River in Alabama, United States.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Walter F. George Lock and Dam
Walter F. George Lock and Dam is a major navigation and hydroelectric structure on the Chattahoochee River that creates Walter F. George Lake along the Alabama–Georgia border.
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E.
Franklin Lock and Dam
Franklin Lock and Dam is a water control structure on Florida’s Caloosahatchee River that manages river flow, navigation, and flood control as part of the region’s water management system.
- 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: John C. Stennis Lock and Dam Target entity description: John C. Stennis Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Tombigbee River in Mississippi, named after U.S. Senator John C. Stennis.
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A.
Claiborne Lock and Dam
Claiborne Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Alabama River in Alabama, United States.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Walter F. George Lock and Dam
Walter F. George Lock and Dam is a major navigation and hydroelectric structure on the Chattahoochee River that creates Walter F. George Lake along the Alabama–Georgia border.
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E.
Franklin Lock and Dam
Franklin Lock and Dam is a water control structure on Florida’s Caloosahatchee River that manages river flow, navigation, and flood control as part of the region’s water management system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flood-control structure
ⓘ
human ⓘ lock and dam ⓘ navigation structure ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasDam | concrete dam ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
flood control
ⓘ
navigation ⓘ |
| hasLock | navigation lock ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Mississippi
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locatedOn | Tombigbee River ⓘ |
| namedAfter | John C. Stennis ⓘ |
| namedForCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| namedForOccupation | U.S. Senator ⓘ |
| occupation | U.S. Senator ⓘ |
| operator | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ⓘ |
| partOf |
Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway
ⓘ
linked to:
Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway
|
| riverBasin |
Tombigbee River basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Tombigbee River
|
| state | Mississippi ⓘ |
| watercourse | Tombigbee 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: John C. Stennis Lock and Dam Description of subject: John C. Stennis Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Tombigbee River in Mississippi, named after U.S. Senator John C. Stennis.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.