Wilson Lock
E91927
Wilson Lock is a major navigation lock on the Tennessee River in Alabama that facilitates river traffic around Wilson Dam as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wilson Lock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T781487 — 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: Wilson Lock Context triple: [Tennessee River, hasLock, Wilson Lock]
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A.
Wilkinson
Wilkinson is an English surname, originally a patronymic meaning "son of Wilkin," that has been borne by various notable figures and brands.
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B.
Wallace Akers
Wallace Akers was a British industrial chemist and administrator who played a key role in the United Kingdom’s early atomic energy and nuclear weapons research during World War II.
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C.
John Crane
John Crane was an American Revolutionary War officer who rose to prominence as a leader in the Continental Army’s artillery forces.
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D.
James Robinson
James Robinson was a civil rights activist best known as one of the founders of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a key organization in the U.S. civil rights movement.
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E.
Rolen
Rolen is a surname most notably associated with Scott Rolen, a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball third baseman.
- 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: Wilson Lock Target entity description: Wilson Lock is a major navigation lock on the Tennessee River in Alabama that facilitates river traffic around Wilson Dam as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority system.
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A.
Wilkinson
Wilkinson is an English surname, originally a patronymic meaning "son of Wilkin," that has been borne by various notable figures and brands.
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B.
Wallace Akers
Wallace Akers was a British industrial chemist and administrator who played a key role in the United Kingdom’s early atomic energy and nuclear weapons research during World War II.
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C.
John Crane
John Crane was an American Revolutionary War officer who rose to prominence as a leader in the Continental Army’s artillery forces.
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D.
James Robinson
James Robinson was a civil rights activist best known as one of the founders of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a key organization in the U.S. civil rights movement.
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E.
Rolen
Rolen is a surname most notably associated with Scott Rolen, a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball third baseman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
inland waterway lock
ⓘ
navigation lock ⓘ |
| associatedWithOrganization | Tennessee Valley Authority ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| constructionMaterial |
concrete
ⓘ
steel ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| downstreamFrom | Wheeler Lock and Dam ⓘ |
| function | facilitates river traffic around Wilson Dam ⓘ |
| hasConnectionTo |
Wilson Dam
ⓘ
surface form:
Wilson Dam powerhouse
Wilson Reservoir ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
commercial shipping support
ⓘ
navigation ⓘ recreational boating support ⓘ |
| isPartOf | inland waterway system of the United States ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alabama
ⓘ
Colbert County, Alabama ⓘ Lauderdale County, Alabama ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Northern Alabama
ⓘ
surface form:
North Alabama
Tennessee Valley ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Wilson Dam ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterway | Tennessee River ⓘ |
| operator |
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Army Corps of Engineers
|
| ownedBy | United States government ⓘ |
| partOf |
Tennessee River
ⓘ
surface form:
Tennessee River navigation system
Tennessee River waterway transportation infrastructure ⓘ Tennessee Valley Authority ⓘ
surface form:
Tennessee Valley Authority system
|
| riverSystem |
Tennessee River
ⓘ
surface form:
Tennessee River system
|
| upstreamFrom |
Pickwick Landing Dam
ⓘ
surface form:
Pickwick Landing Lock and Dam
|
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: Wilson Lock Description of subject: Wilson Lock is a major navigation lock on the Tennessee River in Alabama that facilitates river traffic around Wilson Dam as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority system.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.