Ribble Link
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Ribble Link is a navigable waterway in northwest England that connects the inland canal network to the River Ribble, providing boat access between the Lancaster Canal and the wider British canal system.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ribble Link canonical | 3 |
| Rufford Branch navigation route | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2032529 — 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: Ribble Link Context triple: [Rufford Branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, linksToWaterwayNetwork, Ribble Link]
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A.
Thelwall Viaduct
Thelwall Viaduct is a major motorway bridge in north-west England that carries the M6 over the River Mersey and surrounding waterways near Warrington.
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B.
Yeadon Loop
Yeadon Loop is a trolley turning loop and terminal facility in Yeadon, Pennsylvania, serving as the western endpoint of SEPTA’s Route 13.
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C.
Cross Bath
Cross Bath is a historic open-air thermal bathing pool in Bath, England, renowned for its natural hot springs and Georgian architecture.
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D.
Runcorn Gap
Runcorn Gap is a narrow crossing point on the River Mersey in northwest England that has long served as a key location for road and rail bridges linking Runcorn and Widnes.
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E.
Colchester bypass
The Colchester bypass is a major road section designed to divert through-traffic around the town of Colchester, reducing congestion in the urban area.
- 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: Ribble Link Target entity description: Ribble Link is a navigable waterway in northwest England that connects the inland canal network to the River Ribble, providing boat access between the Lancaster Canal and the wider British canal system.
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A.
Thelwall Viaduct
Thelwall Viaduct is a major motorway bridge in north-west England that carries the M6 over the River Mersey and surrounding waterways near Warrington.
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B.
Yeadon Loop
Yeadon Loop is a trolley turning loop and terminal facility in Yeadon, Pennsylvania, serving as the western endpoint of SEPTA’s Route 13.
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C.
Cross Bath
Cross Bath is a historic open-air thermal bathing pool in Bath, England, renowned for its natural hot springs and Georgian architecture.
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D.
Runcorn Gap
Runcorn Gap is a narrow crossing point on the River Mersey in northwest England that has long served as a key location for road and rail bridges linking Runcorn and Widnes.
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E.
Colchester bypass
The Colchester bypass is a major road section designed to divert through-traffic around the town of Colchester, reducing congestion in the urban area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal
ⓘ
navigable waterway ⓘ |
| connectsTo | inland canal network of Great Britain ⓘ |
| connectsWaterway |
Lancaster Canal
ⓘ
River Ribble ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasMouth | River Ribble ⓘ |
| hasNavigationType | tidal link ⓘ |
| hasOfficialName | Ribble Link self-link ⓘ |
| hasSource | Lancaster Canal ⓘ |
| locatedIn | North West England ⓘ |
| locatedInWaterSystem | Ribble catchment ⓘ |
| navigability | navigable by boats ⓘ |
| partOf | British canal system ⓘ |
| regionServed | Lancashire ⓘ |
| usedFor |
inland waterway navigation
ⓘ
recreational boating ⓘ |
| waterwayFunction |
connects inland canal network to the River Ribble
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provides boat access between the Lancaster Canal and the wider British canal system ⓘ |
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: Ribble Link Description of subject: Ribble Link is a navigable waterway in northwest England that connects the inland canal network to the River Ribble, providing boat access between the Lancaster Canal and the wider British canal system.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Rufford Branch navigation route