Oxford Canal
E142392
The Oxford Canal is a historic narrow canal in central England, completed in the late 18th century, that played a key role in the Industrial Revolution by linking the Midlands to the River Thames near Oxford.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Oxford Canal canonical | 21 |
| Oxford Canal (via Napton Junction) | 1 |
| Oxford Canal at Hawkesbury Junction | 1 |
| Oxford Canal at Napton Junction | 1 |
| Oxford Canal main line (historic) | 1 |
| the Oxford Canal | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1056718 — 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: Oxford Canal Context triple: [James Brindley, notableWork, Oxford Canal]
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Kennet and Avon Canal
The Kennet and Avon Canal is a historic English waterway linking the River Thames at Reading with the River Avon at Bath, renowned for its 19th-century engineering and scenic cruising route.
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Grand Union Canal
The Grand Union Canal is a major English waterway that links London to Birmingham, forming the longest canal in the UK and serving both leisure boating and historical industrial transport.
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Stratford-upon-Avon Canal
The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal is a historic English narrow canal in the West Midlands that links the town of Stratford-upon-Avon with the national canal network and is popular for leisure boating and scenic walks.
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D.
Bridgewater Canal
The Bridgewater Canal is a historic English canal, often regarded as the first modern canal in Britain, which played a key role in the early Industrial Revolution by linking coal mines to the growing city of Manchester.
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Coventry Canal
The Coventry Canal is an 18th-century English narrow canal, engineered by James Brindley, that links Coventry with the wider Midlands canal network and played a key role in the region’s industrial transport.
- 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: Oxford Canal Target entity description: The Oxford Canal is a historic narrow canal in central England, completed in the late 18th century, that played a key role in the Industrial Revolution by linking the Midlands to the River Thames near Oxford.
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A.
Kennet and Avon Canal
The Kennet and Avon Canal is a historic English waterway linking the River Thames at Reading with the River Avon at Bath, renowned for its 19th-century engineering and scenic cruising route.
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B.
Grand Union Canal
The Grand Union Canal is a major English waterway that links London to Birmingham, forming the longest canal in the UK and serving both leisure boating and historical industrial transport.
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C.
Stratford-upon-Avon Canal
The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal is a historic English narrow canal in the West Midlands that links the town of Stratford-upon-Avon with the national canal network and is popular for leisure boating and scenic walks.
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D.
Bridgewater Canal
The Bridgewater Canal is a historic English canal, often regarded as the first modern canal in Britain, which played a key role in the early Industrial Revolution by linking coal mines to the growing city of Manchester.
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E.
Coventry Canal
The Coventry Canal is an 18th-century English narrow canal, engineered by James Brindley, that links Coventry with the wider Midlands canal network and played a key role in the region’s industrial transport.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Oxford Canal Description of subject: The Oxford Canal is a historic narrow canal in central England, completed in the late 18th century, that played a key role in the Industrial Revolution by linking the Midlands to the River Thames near Oxford.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
James Brindley
this entity surface form:
Oxford Canal at Hawkesbury Junction
this entity surface form:
the Oxford Canal
this entity surface form:
Oxford Canal main line (historic)
this entity surface form:
Oxford Canal (via Napton Junction)
this entity surface form:
Oxford Canal at Napton Junction