Pedro Miguel Locks

E41161

Panama Canal infrastructure lock complex

Pedro Miguel Locks is one of the key lock complexes of the Panama Canal, enabling ships to be raised and lowered between the Pacific Ocean and the canal’s interior waterways.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Pedro Miguel Locks canonical	9
Pedro Miguel	1
Pedro Miguel, Panama	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Panama Canal infrastructure ⓘ lock complex ⓘ
belongsToCanalSection	Pacific locks section ⓘ
connectsTo	Culebra Cut ⓘ Gaillard Cut ⓘ Miraflores Locks ⓘ
constructionMaterial	reinforced concrete ⓘ
constructionStart	early 20th century ⓘ
country	Panama ⓘ
designedFor	ocean-going vessels ⓘ
elevationChange	approximately 9 meters ⓘ
engineeringSignificance	key component of Panama Canal lock system ⓘ
function	enable transit between Pacific Ocean and canal interior ⓘ lower ships ⓘ raise ships ⓘ
hasFeature	culvert-based filling and emptying system ⓘ lock chamber ⓘ miter gates ⓘ
hasInfrastructureRole	navigation control ⓘ water level regulation ⓘ
heritageSignificance	major 20th-century civil engineering work ⓘ
historicalEra	early 1900s ⓘ
isAdjacentTo	Gaillard Cut ⓘ Miraflores Locks ⓘ
locatedIn	Panama ⓘ Panama Canal Zone (historical) ⓘ surface form: Panama Canal Zone
locatedNear	Panama Canal ⓘ surface form: Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal Pedro Miguel Locks self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Pedro Miguel, Panama
lockType	concrete lock ⓘ gravity-fed lock ⓘ
namedAfter	nearby village of Pedro Miguel ⓘ
nearbyBodyOfWater	Miraflores Lake ⓘ Pacific Ocean ⓘ
numberOfChambers	1 ⓘ
opened	1914 ⓘ
operatedBy	Panama Canal Authority ⓘ
operator	Panama Canal Authority ⓘ surface form: Autoridad del Canal de Panamá
partOf	Panama Canal ⓘ original Panama Canal lock system ⓘ
positionInCanal	Pacific side ⓘ
region	Panamá Province ⓘ
status	operational ⓘ
transportMode	maritime shipping ⓘ
usedFor	international maritime trade ⓘ transit between Atlantic and Pacific Oceans via Panama Canal ⓘ
waterSource	Gatun Lake ⓘ
waterwayServed	Panama Canal ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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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: Pedro Miguel Locks
Description of subject: Pedro Miguel Locks is one of the key lock complexes of the Panama Canal, enabling ships to be raised and lowered between the Pacific Ocean and the canal’s interior waterways.

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Panama Canal → hasLockSystem → Pedro Miguel Locks ⓘ

Pedro Miguel Locks → locatedNear → Pedro Miguel Locks self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Pedro Miguel, Panama

Miraflores Locks → connectedTo → Pedro Miguel Locks ⓘ

Gatun Lake → lockSystemSupplied → Pedro Miguel Locks ⓘ

Gaillard Cut → connects → Pedro Miguel Locks ⓘ

Gaillard Cut → nearbySettlement → Pedro Miguel Locks ⓘ

this entity surface form: Pedro Miguel

Culebra Cut → connects → Pedro Miguel Locks ⓘ

Pacific locks section → hasPart → Pedro Miguel Locks ⓘ

Miraflores Lake → connectsTo → Pedro Miguel Locks ⓘ

Miraflores Lake → locatedNear → Pedro Miguel Locks ⓘ

Miraflores Lake → hasLockConnection → Pedro Miguel Locks ⓘ