Wheeler Lock
E93352
Wheeler Lock is a navigation lock on the Tennessee River in northern Alabama that helps vessels bypass Wheeler Dam as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s waterway system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wheeler Lock canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T781488 — 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: Wheeler Lock Context triple: [Tennessee River, hasLock, Wheeler Lock]
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A.
Wilson Lock
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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B.
Wheeler
Wheeler is a surname most prominently associated in this context with Ted Wheeler, the American politician and mayor of Portland, Oregon.
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C.
Nickajack Lock
Nickajack Lock is a navigation lock on the Tennessee River in Tennessee that helps manage river traffic and water levels as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority system.
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D.
Swiss Army
The Swiss Army is Switzerland’s national military force, responsible for the country’s defense and organized primarily as a militia with a small professional core.
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E.
Rockwell
Rockwell is an American singer and songwriter best known for his 1984 hit single "Somebody's Watching Me."
- 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: Wheeler Lock Target entity description: Wheeler Lock is a navigation lock on the Tennessee River in northern Alabama that helps vessels bypass Wheeler Dam as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s waterway system.
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A.
Wilson Lock
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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B.
Wheeler
Wheeler is a surname most prominently associated in this context with Ted Wheeler, the American politician and mayor of Portland, Oregon.
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C.
Nickajack Lock
Nickajack Lock is a navigation lock on the Tennessee River in Tennessee that helps manage river traffic and water levels as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority system.
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D.
Swiss Army
The Swiss Army is Switzerland’s national military force, responsible for the country’s defense and organized primarily as a militia with a small professional core.
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E.
Rockwell
Rockwell is an American singer and songwriter best known for his 1984 hit single "Somebody's Watching Me."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
infrastructure
ⓘ
navigation lock ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Wheeler Dam ⓘ |
| associatedWithStructure | Wheeler Dam ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| function | allows vessels to bypass Wheeler Dam ⓘ |
| hasNavigationRole | bypasses dam-induced elevation change ⓘ |
| hasOwner | Tennessee Valley Authority ⓘ |
| hasRelationTo | hydroelectric power infrastructure ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Tennessee Valley Authority
ⓘ
surface form:
TVA navigation locks network
|
| locatedIn |
Alabama
ⓘ
Tennessee Valley Authority ⓘ
surface form:
Tennessee Valley Authority service area
northern Alabama ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedInRegion | Tennessee Valley ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterway | Tennessee River ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Tennessee Valley Authority ⓘ |
| partOf |
Tennessee River
ⓘ
surface form:
Tennessee River navigation system
Tennessee Valley Authority ⓘ
surface form:
Tennessee Valley Authority waterway system
|
| purpose | navigation ⓘ |
| riverBasin |
Tennessee Valley
ⓘ
surface form:
Tennessee River Basin
|
| supports | inland waterway transportation ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial navigation
ⓘ
recreational navigation ⓘ |
| watercourse | Tennessee 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: Wheeler Lock Description of subject: Wheeler Lock is a navigation lock on the Tennessee River in northern Alabama that helps vessels bypass Wheeler Dam as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s waterway system.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.