Sollom Lock
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Sollom Lock is a canal lock on the Rufford Branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Lancashire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boats to navigate between different elevations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sollom Lock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2032523 — 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: Sollom Lock Context triple: [Rufford Branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, hasLock, Sollom Lock]
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A.
Gladstone Lock
Gladstone Lock is a major ship lock within the Port of Liverpool that enables large vessels to access the port’s dock system from the River Mersey.
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B.
Barton Lock
Barton Lock is a lock on the Manchester Ship Canal that enables vessels to navigate changes in water level along this major industrial waterway in northwest England.
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C.
Allington Lock
Allington Lock is a key navigation and flood-control lock on the River Medway in Kent, England, marking the tidal limit of the river.
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D.
Latchford Lock
Latchford Lock is a major lock on the Manchester Ship Canal in Warrington, England, enabling large vessels to navigate between the River Mersey and the inland port network.
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E.
Bardney Lock
Bardney Lock is a navigation lock on the River Witham in Lincolnshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
- 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: Sollom Lock Target entity description: Sollom Lock is a canal lock on the Rufford Branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Lancashire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boats to navigate between different elevations.
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A.
Gladstone Lock
Gladstone Lock is a major ship lock within the Port of Liverpool that enables large vessels to access the port’s dock system from the River Mersey.
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B.
Barton Lock
Barton Lock is a lock on the Manchester Ship Canal that enables vessels to navigate changes in water level along this major industrial waterway in northwest England.
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C.
Allington Lock
Allington Lock is a key navigation and flood-control lock on the River Medway in Kent, England, marking the tidal limit of the river.
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D.
Latchford Lock
Latchford Lock is a major lock on the Manchester Ship Canal in Warrington, England, enabling large vessels to navigate between the River Mersey and the inland port network.
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E.
Bardney Lock
Bardney Lock is a navigation lock on the River Witham in Lincolnshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | canal lock ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| function |
enable boats to navigate between different elevations
ⓘ
manage water levels ⓘ |
| hasFeature | gated chamber for raising and lowering boats ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructureType | navigation lock ⓘ |
| hasPurpose | allow vessels to pass between different water levels ⓘ |
| isPartOfTransportNetwork |
Inland waterway network of England
ⓘ
surface form:
British canal network
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| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
Lancashire ⓘ Rufford Branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeArea | Lancashire ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | England ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | North West England ⓘ |
| onBranch | Rufford Branch ⓘ |
| onCanal | Leeds and Liverpool Canal ⓘ |
| partOf | Rufford Branch ⓘ |
| usedFor | navigation of boats ⓘ |
| waterway | Leeds and Liverpool Canal ⓘ |
| waterwayType | inland waterway lock ⓘ |
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: Sollom Lock Description of subject: Sollom Lock is a canal lock on the Rufford Branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Lancashire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boats to navigate between different elevations.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.