Waterloo Dock
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Waterloo Dock is a historic dock in Liverpool, England, forming part of the city’s northern dock system along the River Mersey.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Waterloo Dock canonical | 3 |
| East Waterloo Dock | 1 |
| Waterloo Dock, Liverpool | 1 |
| West Waterloo Dock | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10694072 — 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: Waterloo Dock Context triple: [Liverpool Waters, includesDock, Waterloo Dock]
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A.
Queen’s Dock
Queen’s Dock is a historic dock in Kingston upon Hull, England, that played a key role in the city’s maritime trade and port development.
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B.
Grand Canal Dock
Grand Canal Dock is a waterfront area in Dublin, Ireland, known for its modern offices, theatres, and apartments built around the historic terminus of the Grand Canal.
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C.
Huskisson Dock
Huskisson Dock is a historic dock within the Port of Liverpool in England, known for its role in the city’s maritime trade and industrial heritage.
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D.
Mersey Ferry terminal
The Mersey Ferry terminal is a riverside passenger facility in Liverpool that serves as the main boarding point for the historic Mersey Ferry services across the River Mersey.
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E.
Gladstone Dock
Gladstone Dock is a major deep-water dock within the Port of Liverpool on the River Mersey, historically important for handling large ocean-going vessels and bulk cargo.
- 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: Waterloo Dock Target entity description: Waterloo Dock is a historic dock in Liverpool, England, forming part of the city’s northern dock system along the River Mersey.
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A.
Queen’s Dock
Queen’s Dock is a historic dock in Kingston upon Hull, England, that played a key role in the city’s maritime trade and port development.
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B.
Grand Canal Dock
Grand Canal Dock is a waterfront area in Dublin, Ireland, known for its modern offices, theatres, and apartments built around the historic terminus of the Grand Canal.
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C.
Huskisson Dock
Huskisson Dock is a historic dock within the Port of Liverpool in England, known for its role in the city’s maritime trade and industrial heritage.
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D.
Mersey Ferry terminal
The Mersey Ferry terminal is a riverside passenger facility in Liverpool that serves as the main boarding point for the historic Mersey Ferry services across the River Mersey.
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E.
Gladstone Dock
Gladstone Dock is a major deep-water dock within the Port of Liverpool on the River Mersey, historically important for handling large ocean-going vessels and bulk cargo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dock
ⓘ
maritime infrastructure ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Prince's Dock
ⓘ
linked to:
Princes Dock
Salisbury Dock ⓘ Victoria Dock ⓘ |
| connectedTo | other Liverpool docks via lock entrances ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 53.412°N 2.999°W ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| currentUse |
mixed-use waterfront area
ⓘ
residential developments nearby ⓘ |
| designer | Jesse Hartley ⓘ |
| hasPart |
East Waterloo Dock
ⓘ
linked to:
Waterloo Dock
West Waterloo Dock ⓘ
linked to:
Waterloo Dock
|
| heritageStatus | historic dock ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
Liverpool ⓘ Merseyside ⓘ |
| locatedInUrbanArea | Vauxhall, Liverpool ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterbody | River Mersey ⓘ |
| municipality |
Liverpool City Council area
ⓘ
linked to:
Liverpool City Council
|
| namedAfter |
Battle of Waterloo
ⓘ
Waterloo ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1834 ⓘ |
| originalUse |
cargo handling
ⓘ
commercial shipping ⓘ passenger traffic ⓘ |
| partOf |
Liverpool dock system
ⓘ
linked to:
Liverpool docks
northern dock system of Liverpool ⓘ |
| significance | part of Liverpool’s historic port infrastructure ⓘ |
| waterArea | subdivided into East and West basins ⓘ |
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: Waterloo Dock Description of subject: Waterloo Dock is a historic dock in Liverpool, England, forming part of the city’s northern dock system along the River Mersey.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Liverpool Waters regeneration scheme
linked to: Waterloo Dock
linked to: Waterloo Dock
linked to: Waterloo Dock