Leidsevaart
E157434
Leidsevaart is a historic canal in the Netherlands that runs between Haarlem and Leiden and was once an important route for passenger boats and trade.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Leidsevaart canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1328733 — 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: Leidsevaart Context triple: [Ringvaart, connectsTo, Leidsevaart]
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A.
Kostverlorenvaart
Kostverlorenvaart is a canal in Amsterdam that connects the city's western waterways with the River Amstel and the IJ.
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B.
Sluis
Sluis is a historic municipality and town in the southwestern Dutch province of Zeeland, near the Belgian border.
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C.
Nieuwe Waterweg
Nieuwe Waterweg is a major artificial ship canal in the Netherlands that provides a direct deep-water connection between the North Sea and the port of Rotterdam.
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D.
Port of Nijmegen
The Port of Nijmegen is an inland port in the Dutch city of Nijmegen that serves as an important logistics and transport hub along the River Waal.
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E.
Oranjesluizen
Oranjesluizen is a complex of navigation locks and water management structures in Amsterdam that regulates water levels and access between the IJ/Markermeer and the city’s waterways.
- 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: Leidsevaart Target entity description: Leidsevaart is a historic canal in the Netherlands that runs between Haarlem and Leiden and was once an important route for passenger boats and trade.
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A.
Kostverlorenvaart
Kostverlorenvaart is a canal in Amsterdam that connects the city's western waterways with the River Amstel and the IJ.
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B.
Sluis
Sluis is a historic municipality and town in the southwestern Dutch province of Zeeland, near the Belgian border.
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C.
Nieuwe Waterweg
Nieuwe Waterweg is a major artificial ship canal in the Netherlands that provides a direct deep-water connection between the North Sea and the port of Rotterdam.
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D.
Port of Nijmegen
The Port of Nijmegen is an inland port in the Dutch city of Nijmegen that serves as an important logistics and transport hub along the River Waal.
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E.
Oranjesluizen
Oranjesluizen is a complex of navigation locks and water management structures in Amsterdam that regulates water levels and access between the IJ/Markermeer and the city’s waterways.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal
ⓘ
waterway ⓘ |
| connects |
Haarlem
ⓘ
Leiden ⓘ |
| country | Netherlands ⓘ |
| eraOfGreatestUse | pre-railway era ⓘ |
| etymology | named for its connection to Leiden ⓘ |
| followsRouteBetween | Haarlem and Leiden ⓘ |
| hasBankFeature | towpath (trekpad) ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateSystem | WGS84 ⓘ |
| hasDutchName | Leidsevaart self-link ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
landscape element
ⓘ
recreational boating ⓘ |
| hasHeritageValue | regional historical importance ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
important route for trekschuit passenger boats
ⓘ
important trade route between Haarlem and Leiden ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | regional historical studies ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Dutch ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Haarlem
ⓘ
Leiden ⓘ province of North Holland ⓘ Province of South Holland ⓘ
surface form:
province of South Holland
|
| parallelTo |
Haarlem–Leiden railway
ⓘ
surface form:
Haarlem–Leiden railway line
|
| partOf | Dutch canal network ⓘ |
| region |
Randstad metropolitan region
ⓘ
surface form:
Randstad
|
| runsThrough |
Heemstede
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hillegom ⓘ Lisse ⓘ Oegstgeest ⓘ Voorhout NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | still existing waterway ⓘ |
| transportMode | boat ⓘ |
| use |
passenger transport
ⓘ
trade ⓘ |
| wasServedBy | trekschuit service between Haarlem and Leiden ⓘ |
| waterwayType | historic canal ⓘ |
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: Leidsevaart Description of subject: Leidsevaart is a historic canal in the Netherlands that runs between Haarlem and Leiden and was once an important route for passenger boats and trade.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.