Bray Lock
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Bray Lock is a Thames River lock and weir near the village of Bray in Berkshire, England, used for managing river navigation and water levels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bray Lock canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11779931 — 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: Bray Lock Context triple: [Bray, hasLandmark, Bray Lock]
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A.
Jordans Lock
Jordans Lock is a canal lock on the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation waterway in South Yorkshire, England.
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B.
Bosley Locks
Bosley Locks is a historic flight of canal locks in Cheshire, England, that raises the Macclesfield Canal up the side of the Bosley Cloud hill.
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C.
Bray Harbour
Bray Harbour is a small coastal marina and fishing port serving the seaside town of Bray in County Wicklow, Ireland.
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D.
Tinsley Locks
Tinsley Locks is a flight of canal locks near Sheffield, England, that raises the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation from the River Don up to the city’s canal basin.
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E.
Poe Lock
Poe Lock is one of the major ship locks at the Soo Locks complex in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, enabling large commercial vessels to transit between Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes.
- 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: Bray Lock Target entity description: Bray Lock is a Thames River lock and weir near the village of Bray in Berkshire, England, used for managing river navigation and water levels.
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A.
Jordans Lock
Jordans Lock is a canal lock on the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation waterway in South Yorkshire, England.
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B.
Bosley Locks
Bosley Locks is a historic flight of canal locks in Cheshire, England, that raises the Macclesfield Canal up the side of the Bosley Cloud hill.
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C.
Bray Harbour
Bray Harbour is a small coastal marina and fishing port serving the seaside town of Bray in County Wicklow, Ireland.
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D.
Tinsley Locks
Tinsley Locks is a flight of canal locks near Sheffield, England, that raises the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation from the River Don up to the city’s canal basin.
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E.
Poe Lock
Poe Lock is one of the major ship locks at the Soo Locks complex in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, enabling large commercial vessels to transit between Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Thames lock
ⓘ
river lock ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| downstreamFrom |
Boulter’s Lock
ⓘ
linked to:
Boulter's Lock
|
| hasAdjacentFeature |
Bray Weir
ⓘ
mooring facilities ⓘ riverside towpath ⓘ |
| hasFeature | lock island ⓘ |
| hasStructure | weir ⓘ |
| hasUse |
commercial navigation
ⓘ
recreational boating ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Thames navigation system
ⓘ
linked to:
Thames lock and weir system
|
| locatedIn |
Berkshire
ⓘ
Bray, Berkshire ⓘ
linked to:
Bray, Berkshire, England
South East England ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterway |
River Thames
ⓘ
linked to:
Thames
|
| maintainedBy |
Environment Agency
ⓘ
linked to:
Environment Agency (England)
|
| manages |
river navigation
ⓘ
water levels ⓘ |
| region | Thames Valley ⓘ |
| riverSystem |
Thames River System
ⓘ
linked to:
River Thames system
|
| servesSettlement |
Bray
ⓘ
Maidenhead ⓘ |
| upstreamFrom | Boveney Lock ⓘ |
| watercourse |
non-tidal River Thames
ⓘ
linked to:
non-tidal Thames
|
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: Bray Lock Description of subject: Bray Lock is a Thames River lock and weir near the village of Bray in Berkshire, England, used for managing river navigation and water levels.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Boulter’s Lock on the River Thames