Old Ford Lock
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Old Ford Lock is a historic canal lock on the River Lee Navigation in East London, serving as part of the city's inland waterway network.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old Ford Lock canonical | 3 |
| Lock Keepers’ Cottages, Old Ford Lock, East London | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10976020 — 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: Old Ford Lock Context triple: [Lee Navigation, hasLock, Old Ford Lock]
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A.
Dutton Locks
Dutton Locks is a set of navigation locks on the River Weaver in Cheshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
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B.
Rosedale Lock
Rosedale Lock is a navigational lock on Ontario’s Trent–Severn Waterway that helps boats transition between different water levels along the canal system.
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C.
Gladstone Lock
Gladstone Lock is a major ship lock within the Port of Liverpool that enables large vessels to access the port’s dock system from the River Mersey.
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D.
Allington Lock
Allington Lock is a key navigation and flood-control lock on the River Medway in Kent, England, marking the tidal limit of the river.
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E.
Saltersford Lock
Saltersford Lock is a navigation lock on the River Weaver in Cheshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
- 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: Old Ford Lock Target entity description: Old Ford Lock is a historic canal lock on the River Lee Navigation in East London, serving as part of the city's inland waterway network.
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A.
Dutton Locks
Dutton Locks is a set of navigation locks on the River Weaver in Cheshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
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B.
Rosedale Lock
Rosedale Lock is a navigational lock on Ontario’s Trent–Severn Waterway that helps boats transition between different water levels along the canal system.
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C.
Gladstone Lock
Gladstone Lock is a major ship lock within the Port of Liverpool that enables large vessels to access the port’s dock system from the River Mersey.
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D.
Allington Lock
Allington Lock is a key navigation and flood-control lock on the River Medway in Kent, England, marking the tidal limit of the river.
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E.
Saltersford Lock
Saltersford Lock is a navigation lock on the River Weaver in Cheshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal lock
ⓘ
historic site ⓘ navigation lock ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasAccess | towpath ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
enables boat passage
ⓘ
regulates water levels ⓘ |
| hasStructureType | pound lock ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic canal infrastructure ⓘ |
| isPartOfRoute | navigation route between Hertfordshire and the River Thames ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
East London
ⓘ
England ⓘ London ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
London Borough of Tower Hamlets ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Old Ford
ⓘ
Victoria Park, London ⓘ
linked to:
Victoria Park (London)
|
| locatedOnWaterway | River Lee Navigation ⓘ |
| partOf |
Lee Navigation lock system
ⓘ
linked to:
Lee Navigation system
London inland waterway network ⓘ
linked to:
Greater London waterways
|
| region | Greater London ⓘ |
| serves | inland waterway network of London ⓘ |
| usedBy |
commercial barges
ⓘ
narrowboats ⓘ pleasure craft ⓘ |
| usedFor |
inland water transport
ⓘ
navigation ⓘ recreational boating ⓘ |
| watercourse | River Lea ⓘ |
| waterwaySystem |
River Lea system
ⓘ
linked to:
River Lea
|
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: Old Ford Lock Description of subject: Old Ford Lock is a historic canal lock on the River Lee Navigation in East London, serving as part of the city's inland waterway network.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Old Ford Lock