River Wey Navigation
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The River Wey Navigation is a historic canalised river in Surrey, England, forming part of one of the country’s earliest navigable waterways and linking the River Wey to the River Thames.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| River Wey Navigation canonical | 7 |
| River Wey Navigations | 1 |
| River_Wey_navigation_in_Guildford_area | 1 |
| Wey and Godalming Navigations | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3500207 — 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: River Wey Navigation Context triple: [New Haw, nearbyWaterway, River Wey Navigation]
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Basingstoke Canal
The Basingstoke Canal is a restored historic waterway in southern England, popular for boating, walking, and wildlife along its rural and suburban towpaths.
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B.
Godalming Navigation
Godalming Navigation is a historic canalised section of the River Wey in Surrey, England, built to enable inland water transport between Godalming and the wider Wey Navigation system.
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C.
Grantham Canal
The Grantham Canal is a historic English waterway in the East Midlands that once linked the town of Grantham to the national canal network, primarily serving 18th- and 19th-century trade and now valued for leisure and wildlife.
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D.
Coventry Canal
The Coventry Canal is an 18th-century English narrow canal, engineered by James Brindley, that links Coventry with the wider Midlands canal network and played a key role in the region’s industrial transport.
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E.
Kennet and Avon Canal
The Kennet and Avon Canal is a historic English waterway linking the River Thames at Reading with the River Avon at Bath, renowned for its 19th-century engineering and scenic cruising route.
- 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: River Wey Navigation Target entity description: The River Wey Navigation is a historic canalised river in Surrey, England, forming part of one of the country’s earliest navigable waterways and linking the River Wey to the River Thames.
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A.
Basingstoke Canal
The Basingstoke Canal is a restored historic waterway in southern England, popular for boating, walking, and wildlife along its rural and suburban towpaths.
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B.
Godalming Navigation
Godalming Navigation is a historic canalised section of the River Wey in Surrey, England, built to enable inland water transport between Godalming and the wider Wey Navigation system.
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C.
Grantham Canal
The Grantham Canal is a historic English waterway in the East Midlands that once linked the town of Grantham to the national canal network, primarily serving 18th- and 19th-century trade and now valued for leisure and wildlife.
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D.
Coventry Canal
The Coventry Canal is an 18th-century English narrow canal, engineered by James Brindley, that links Coventry with the wider Midlands canal network and played a key role in the region’s industrial transport.
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E.
Kennet and Avon Canal
The Kennet and Avon Canal is a historic English waterway linking the River Thames at Reading with the River Avon at Bath, renowned for its 19th-century engineering and scenic cruising route.
- 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: River Wey Navigation Description of subject: The River Wey Navigation is a historic canalised river in Surrey, England, forming part of one of the country’s earliest navigable waterways and linking the River Wey to the River Thames.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
River Wey Navigations
this entity surface form:
River_Wey_navigation_in_Guildford_area
this entity surface form:
Wey and Godalming Navigations