Farmington Canal
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The Farmington Canal was a 19th-century waterway in Connecticut and Massachusetts built to facilitate regional trade and transportation before being supplanted by railroads.
All labels observed (1)
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| Farmington Canal canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12253176 — 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: Farmington Canal Context triple: [Farmington Canal Heritage Trail, followsRouteOf, Farmington Canal]
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Morris Canal
The Morris Canal was a historic 19th-century New Jersey canal that transported coal and other goods across the state using an innovative system of inclined planes and locks.
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Shinnecock Canal
Shinnecock Canal is a man-made waterway on Long Island, New York, that connects Great Peconic Bay with Shinnecock Bay and helps regulate tidal flow between them.
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Delaware and Hudson Canal
The Delaware and Hudson Canal was a 19th-century engineering project that transported anthracite coal from Pennsylvania to the Hudson River, playing a key role in early American industrialization and canal-era commerce.
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Lehigh Canal
The Lehigh Canal is a historic 19th-century navigation canal in eastern Pennsylvania that was built to transport anthracite coal and fostered early American industrial development along the Lehigh River.
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E.
Delaware Aqueduct
The Delaware Aqueduct is a major underground tunnel that transports drinking water from reservoirs in the Delaware River watershed to New York City, forming a critical component of the city’s water supply infrastructure.
- 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: Farmington Canal Target entity description: The Farmington Canal was a 19th-century waterway in Connecticut and Massachusetts built to facilitate regional trade and transportation before being supplanted by railroads.
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A.
Morris Canal
The Morris Canal was a historic 19th-century New Jersey canal that transported coal and other goods across the state using an innovative system of inclined planes and locks.
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B.
Shinnecock Canal
Shinnecock Canal is a man-made waterway on Long Island, New York, that connects Great Peconic Bay with Shinnecock Bay and helps regulate tidal flow between them.
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C.
Delaware and Hudson Canal
The Delaware and Hudson Canal was a 19th-century engineering project that transported anthracite coal from Pennsylvania to the Hudson River, playing a key role in early American industrialization and canal-era commerce.
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D.
Lehigh Canal
The Lehigh Canal is a historic 19th-century navigation canal in eastern Pennsylvania that was built to transport anthracite coal and fostered early American industrial development along the Lehigh River.
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E.
Delaware Aqueduct
The Delaware Aqueduct is a historic 19th-century suspension aqueduct that carried the Delaware and Hudson Canal over the Delaware River and is now preserved as the oldest surviving wire suspension bridge in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.