Canal de Bourgogne
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The Canal de Bourgogne is a historic French waterway in the Burgundy region, linking the Yonne and Saône river basins and known today for its scenic cruising and towpath cycling routes.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Canal de Bourgogne canonical | 6 |
| Canal du Centre | 5 |
| canal de Bourgogne | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2032365 — 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 Bourgogne Context triple: [Yonne, connectedTo, Canal de Bourgogne]
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A.
Canal du Nivernais
The Canal du Nivernais is a historic French inland waterway in Burgundy and Nièvre, renowned for its picturesque locks, aqueducts, and popularity with leisure boating and cycling tourism.
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B.
Canal de l’Est
Canal de l’Est is a French inland waterway that links the Meuse River with other major river basins, forming part of the country’s northeastern canal network.
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C.
Bois-le-Duc Canal
The Bois-le-Duc Canal is a Dutch waterway that connects the city of ’s-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc) to the River Maas, facilitating regional navigation and transport.
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D.
Sambre–Oise Canal
The Sambre–Oise Canal is a navigable waterway in northern France that connects the Sambre and Oise rivers and is historically noted as the site where World War I poet Wilfred Owen was killed in action.
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E.
Grand Canal d’Alsace
The Grand Canal d’Alsace is a major artificial waterway in eastern France that diverts and regulates part of the Rhine for navigation, hydroelectric power, and flood control.
- 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 Bourgogne Target entity description: The Canal de Bourgogne is a historic French waterway in the Burgundy region, linking the Yonne and Saône river basins and known today for its scenic cruising and towpath cycling routes.
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A.
Canal du Nivernais
The Canal du Nivernais is a historic French inland waterway in Burgundy and Nièvre, renowned for its picturesque locks, aqueducts, and popularity with leisure boating and cycling tourism.
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B.
Canal de l’Est
Canal de l’Est is a French inland waterway that links the Meuse River with other major river basins, forming part of the country’s northeastern canal network.
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C.
Bois-le-Duc Canal
The Bois-le-Duc Canal is a Dutch waterway that connects the city of ’s-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc) to the River Maas, facilitating regional navigation and transport.
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D.
Sambre–Oise Canal
The Sambre–Oise Canal is a navigable waterway in northern France that connects the Sambre and Oise rivers and is historically noted as the site where World War I poet Wilfred Owen was killed in action.
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E.
Grand Canal d’Alsace
The Grand Canal d’Alsace is a major artificial waterway in eastern France that diverts and regulates part of the Rhine for navigation, hydroelectric power, and flood control.
- 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: Canal de Bourgogne Description of subject: The Canal de Bourgogne is a historic French waterway in the Burgundy region, linking the Yonne and Saône river basins and known today for its scenic cruising and towpath cycling routes.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Canal du Centre
this entity surface form:
Canal du Centre
this entity surface form:
Canal du Centre
this entity surface form:
Canal du Centre