Cheboygan River Lock
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Cheboygan River Lock is a navigation lock in northern Michigan that helps boats transit between Lake Huron and the state’s Inland Waterway system via the Cheboygan River.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cheboygan River Lock canonical | 2 |
| Cheboygan River Lock and Dam | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10850406 — 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: Cheboygan River Lock Context triple: [Inland Waterway (Michigan), hasLock, Cheboygan River Lock]
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A.
Swift Rapids Lock
Swift Rapids Lock is a large lock station on Ontario’s Trent–Severn Waterway, notable for its significant lift and remote, scenic setting.
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B.
Bobcaygeon Lock
Bobcaygeon Lock is a historic canal lock in Bobcaygeon, Ontario, that facilitates boat navigation and water level control along Canada’s Trent–Severn Waterway.
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C.
Merrickville Locks
Merrickville Locks are a historic set of canal locks in Merrickville, Ontario, that form part of the UNESCO-listed Rideau Canal waterway.
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D.
Ortona Lock and Dam
Ortona Lock and Dam is a navigation and water-control structure on the Caloosahatchee River in Florida that helps manage water levels and vessel passage along the Okeechobee Waterway.
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E.
Dresden Island Lock and Dam
Dresden Island Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Illinois Waterway that helps regulate river levels and facilitate barge traffic in northeastern Illinois.
- 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: Cheboygan River Lock Target entity description: Cheboygan River Lock is a navigation lock in northern Michigan that helps boats transit between Lake Huron and the state’s Inland Waterway system via the Cheboygan River.
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A.
Swift Rapids Lock
Swift Rapids Lock is a large lock station on Ontario’s Trent–Severn Waterway, notable for its significant lift and remote, scenic setting.
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B.
Bobcaygeon Lock
Bobcaygeon Lock is a historic canal lock in Bobcaygeon, Ontario, that facilitates boat navigation and water level control along Canada’s Trent–Severn Waterway.
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C.
Merrickville Locks
Merrickville Locks are a historic set of canal locks in Merrickville, Ontario, that form part of the UNESCO-listed Rideau Canal waterway.
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D.
Ortona Lock and Dam
Ortona Lock and Dam is a navigation and water-control structure on the Caloosahatchee River in Florida that helps manage water levels and vessel passage along the Okeechobee Waterway.
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E.
Dresden Island Lock and Dam
Dresden Island Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Illinois Waterway that helps regulate river levels and facilitate barge traffic in northeastern Illinois.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal lock
ⓘ
navigation lock ⓘ |
| city |
Cheboygan
ⓘ
linked to:
Cheboygan, Michigan
|
| connectsTo |
Inland Waterway of Northern Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Inland Waterway (Michigan)
Lake Huron ⓘ |
| connectsWaterBodies |
Cheboygan River
ⓘ
Inland Waterway of Northern Michigan ⓘ
linked to:
Inland Waterway (Michigan)
Lake Huron ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county |
Cheboygan County
ⓘ
linked to:
Cheboygan County, Michigan
|
| hasAccess |
Inland Waterway of Northern Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Inland Waterway (Michigan)
Lake Huron ⓘ |
| hasFunction | to raise and lower boats between different water levels ⓘ |
| isInfrastructureType | waterway infrastructure ⓘ |
| isPartOfTransportationNetwork |
Great Lakes–Inland Waterway connection in Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Inland Waterway (Michigan)
|
| locatedIn |
Cheboygan County, Michigan
ⓘ
Cheboygan, Michigan ⓘ Michigan ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locatedNear | mouth of the Cheboygan River ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterway | Cheboygan River ⓘ |
| partOf |
Inland Waterway of Northern Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Inland Waterway (Michigan)
|
| region | Northern Michigan ⓘ |
| serves | boaters traveling between Lake Huron and the Inland Waterway ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Michigan (most of state)
|
| usedFor |
boat transit
ⓘ
commercial boating ⓘ navigation ⓘ recreational boating ⓘ |
| watercourse | Cheboygan 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: Cheboygan River Lock Description of subject: Cheboygan River Lock is a navigation lock in northern Michigan that helps boats transit between Lake Huron and the state’s Inland Waterway system via the Cheboygan River.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cheboygan River Lock