Ottmarsheim lock
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Ottmarsheim lock is a major navigation lock on the Grand Canal d’Alsace in eastern France, facilitating ship passage and water level management along the Rhine corridor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ottmarsheim lock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3447816 — 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: Ottmarsheim lock Context triple: [Grand Canal d’Alsace, hasLock, Ottmarsheim lock]
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A.
Oberhausen lock
Oberhausen lock is a key navigation lock on Germany’s Rhine–Herne Canal that enables vessels to overcome changes in water level along this major industrial waterway.
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B.
Bütgenbach Dam
Bütgenbach Dam is a hydroelectric and flood-control structure in eastern Belgium that creates Lake Bütgenbach, a popular site for recreation and water sports.
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C.
Sorpe Dam
The Sorpe Dam is a German earth-fill dam in the Ruhr region that was a key target of the RAF’s World War II “Dambusters” raid, Operation Chastise.
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D.
Vauban Dam
Vauban Dam is a historic 17th-century defensive weir and bridge in Strasbourg, France, known for its panoramic views over the city’s Petite France district.
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E.
Möhne Dam
Möhne Dam is a major German gravity dam in North Rhine-Westphalia, historically known for being breached by the RAF’s “Dambusters” raid during World War II.
- 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: Ottmarsheim lock Target entity description: Ottmarsheim lock is a major navigation lock on the Grand Canal d’Alsace in eastern France, facilitating ship passage and water level management along the Rhine corridor.
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A.
Oberhausen lock
Oberhausen lock is a key navigation lock on Germany’s Rhine–Herne Canal that enables vessels to overcome changes in water level along this major industrial waterway.
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B.
Bütgenbach Dam
Bütgenbach Dam is a hydroelectric and flood-control structure in eastern Belgium that creates Lake Bütgenbach, a popular site for recreation and water sports.
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C.
Sorpe Dam
The Sorpe Dam is a German earth-fill dam in the Ruhr region that was a key target of the RAF’s World War II “Dambusters” raid, Operation Chastise.
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D.
Vauban Dam
Vauban Dam is a historic 17th-century defensive weir and bridge in Strasbourg, France, known for its panoramic views over the city’s Petite France district.
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E.
Möhne Dam
Möhne Dam is a major German gravity dam in North Rhine-Westphalia, historically known for being breached by the RAF’s “Dambusters” raid during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hydraulic structure
ⓘ
navigation lock ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
France
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Germany ⓘ |
| borderingRiver | Rhine ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| function |
facilitate ship passage
ⓘ
navigation control ⓘ water level management ⓘ |
| hasAccessTo |
Grand Canal d’Alsace
ⓘ
Rhine ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | French ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Grand Canal d’Alsace
ⓘ
surface form:
Grand Canal d’Alsace lock system
Rhine navigation infrastructure ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Grand Canal d’Alsace ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | France ⓘ |
| locatedInDepartment | Haut-Rhin ⓘ |
| locatedInPartOf | eastern France ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Alsace ⓘ |
| locatedInRiverBasin |
Rhine River Basin
ⓘ
surface form:
Rhine basin
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| locatedNear | Ottmarsheim ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterway | Grand Canal d’Alsace ⓘ |
| partOf |
Rhine motorway corridor
ⓘ
surface form:
Rhine corridor
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| partOfWaterwaySystem | Rhine ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial navigation
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freight transport ⓘ inland shipping ⓘ river traffic regulation ⓘ |
| watercourse | Rhine ⓘ |
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: Ottmarsheim lock Description of subject: Ottmarsheim lock is a major navigation lock on the Grand Canal d’Alsace in eastern France, facilitating ship passage and water level management along the Rhine corridor.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.