Canal de Caen à la Mer

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Canal de Caen à la Mer is a French ship canal in Normandy that links the city of Caen to the English Channel, serving both commercial and recreational navigation.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Caen Canal	9
Canal de Caen à la Mer canonical	2
Caen canal to the sea	1
Caen to the Sea Canal	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16762198 — 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: Canal de Caen à la Mer
Context triple: [Normandy waterways network, hasPart, Canal de Caen à la Mer]

A. Canal de la Marque
Canal de la Marque is a French inland waterway in the Nord department that forms part of the regional canal system linking local rivers and industrial areas.
B. Nantes–Brest canal
The Nantes–Brest canal is a historic inland waterway in western France that links the cities of Nantes and Brest via a network of rivers, locks, and man-made channels.
C. Canal de la Somme
Canal de la Somme is a French inland waterway in northern France that follows the Somme River valley, historically used for navigation, transport, and irrigation.
D. Canal d’Ille-et-Rance
The Canal d’Ille-et-Rance is a man-made waterway in Brittany, France, linking the rivers Ille and Rance and forming part of an inland navigation route between the English Channel and the Atlantic.
E. Canal de Briare
Canal de Briare is one of France’s oldest artificial waterways, historically significant for linking the Loire and Seine river basins and facilitating inland navigation.
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: Canal de Caen à la Mer
Target entity description: Canal de Caen à la Mer is a French ship canal in Normandy that links the city of Caen to the English Channel, serving both commercial and recreational navigation.

A. Canal de la Marque
Canal de la Marque is a French inland waterway in the Nord department that forms part of the regional canal system linking local rivers and industrial areas.
B. Nantes–Brest canal
The Nantes–Brest canal is a historic inland waterway in western France that links the cities of Nantes and Brest via a network of rivers, locks, and man-made channels.
C. Canal de la Somme
Canal de la Somme is a French inland waterway in northern France that follows the Somme River valley, historically used for navigation, transport, and irrigation.
D. Canal d’Ille-et-Rance
The Canal d’Ille-et-Rance is a man-made waterway in Brittany, France, linking the rivers Ille and Rance and forming part of an inland navigation route between the English Channel and the Atlantic.
E. Canal de Briare
Canal de Briare is one of France’s oldest artificial waterways, historically significant for linking the Loire and Seine river basins and facilitating inland navigation.
F. None of above. chosen