Dresden Island Lock and Dam
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Dresden Island Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Illinois Waterway that helps regulate river levels and facilitate barge traffic in northeastern Illinois.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dresden Island Lock and Dam canonical | 1 |
| La Grange Lock and Dam | 1 |
| Starved Rock Lock and Dam | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3499138 — 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: Dresden Island Lock and Dam Context triple: [Illinois Waterway system, hasPart, Dresden Island Lock and Dam]
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A.
Murray Lock and Dam
Murray Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Arkansas River near Little Rock, Arkansas, that helps regulate river flow and support commercial barge traffic.
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B.
Dardanelle Lock and Dam
Dardanelle Lock and Dam is a major navigation and hydroelectric structure on the Arkansas River in Arkansas, forming part of the McClellan–Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System.
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C.
Lockport Lock and Dam
Lockport Lock and Dam is a major lock and dam complex on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal that controls water levels, aids navigation, and helps manage flood and wastewater flows between the Chicago area and the Des Plaines River.
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D.
Webbers Falls Lock and Dam
Webbers Falls Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Arkansas River in Oklahoma that forms part of the McClellan–Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System.
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E.
Brandon Road Lock and Dam
Brandon Road Lock and Dam is a major navigation and flood-control structure on the Des Plaines River in Illinois that helps manage water levels and vessel traffic on the Illinois Waterway.
- 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: Dresden Island Lock and Dam Target entity description: Dresden Island Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Illinois Waterway that helps regulate river levels and facilitate barge traffic in northeastern Illinois.
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A.
Murray Lock and Dam
Murray Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Arkansas River near Little Rock, Arkansas, that helps regulate river flow and support commercial barge traffic.
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B.
Dardanelle Lock and Dam
Dardanelle Lock and Dam is a major navigation and hydroelectric structure on the Arkansas River in Arkansas, forming part of the McClellan–Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System.
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C.
Lockport Lock and Dam
Lockport Lock and Dam is a major lock and dam complex on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal that controls water levels, aids navigation, and helps manage flood and wastewater flows between the Chicago area and the Des Plaines River.
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D.
Webbers Falls Lock and Dam
Webbers Falls Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Arkansas River in Oklahoma that forms part of the McClellan–Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System.
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E.
Brandon Road Lock and Dam
Brandon Road Lock and Dam is a major navigation and flood-control structure on the Des Plaines River in Illinois that helps manage water levels and vessel traffic on the Illinois Waterway.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flood-control structure
ⓘ
lock and dam ⓘ navigation structure ⓘ |
| category |
Dams in Illinois
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Locks of Illinois ⓘ United States Army Corps of Engineers dams ⓘ Mississippi River system locks and dams ⓘ
surface form:
United States Army Corps of Engineers locks
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| hasComponent |
dam
ⓘ
navigation lock ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Illinois
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedNear | Morris, Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Des Plaines River
ⓘ
Illinois Waterway system ⓘ
surface form:
Illinois Waterway
|
| maintainedBy |
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Army Corps of Engineers
|
| operator |
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Army Corps of Engineers
|
| partOf |
Inland Waterway System of the United States
ⓘ
surface form:
United States inland waterway system
|
| purpose |
barge traffic facilitation
ⓘ
flood control ⓘ navigation ⓘ water level regulation ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Northeastern Illinois
ⓘ
surface form:
northeastern Illinois
|
| riverSystem |
Illinois River
ⓘ
surface form:
Illinois River system
|
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| usedFor |
barge traffic
ⓘ
commercial shipping ⓘ |
| waterwayRole |
regulates river levels
ⓘ
supports commercial navigation ⓘ |
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: Dresden Island Lock and Dam Description of subject: Dresden Island Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Illinois Waterway that helps regulate river levels and facilitate barge traffic in northeastern Illinois.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Starved Rock Lock and Dam
this entity surface form:
La Grange Lock and Dam