New Canal
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New Canal is a historic street and commercial thoroughfare in the city centre of Salisbury, England, known for its shops and period architecture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New Canal canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4083771 — 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: New Canal Context triple: [Salisbury, hasLandmark, New Canal]
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A.
New Canal
New Canal is a historic waterway, likely referring to the Nieuwegracht in the Dutch city of Utrecht, known for its picturesque canalside houses and wharf cellars.
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B.
Singel canal
Singel canal is a historic waterway in central Amsterdam that once formed part of the city’s medieval defensive moat and is now lined with notable buildings, markets, and houseboats.
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C.
Juliana Canal
The Juliana Canal is a major Dutch shipping canal in the province of Limburg that runs roughly parallel to the river Meuse (Maas) to facilitate inland navigation and flood management.
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D.
Nira Left Bank Canal
Nira Left Bank Canal is a major irrigation canal in Maharashtra, India, that supplies water to agricultural areas including the Baramati region.
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E.
Emperor’s Canal
Emperor’s Canal is one of Amsterdam’s main historic canals, renowned for its elegant 17th-century canal houses and central role in the city’s UNESCO-listed canal belt.
- 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: New Canal Target entity description: New Canal is a historic street and commercial thoroughfare in the city centre of Salisbury, England, known for its shops and period architecture.
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A.
New Canal
New Canal is a historic waterway, likely referring to the Nieuwegracht in the Dutch city of Utrecht, known for its picturesque canalside houses and wharf cellars.
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B.
Singel canal
Singel canal is a historic waterway in central Amsterdam that once formed part of the city’s medieval defensive moat and is now lined with notable buildings, markets, and houseboats.
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C.
Juliana Canal
The Juliana Canal is a major Dutch shipping canal in the province of Limburg that runs roughly parallel to the river Meuse (Maas) to facilitate inland navigation and flood management.
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D.
Nira Left Bank Canal
Nira Left Bank Canal is a major irrigation canal in Maharashtra, India, that supplies water to agricultural areas including the Baramati region.
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E.
Emperor’s Canal
Emperor’s Canal is one of Amsterdam’s main historic canals, renowned for its elegant 17th-century canal houses and central role in the city’s UNESCO-listed canal belt.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial thoroughfare
ⓘ
street ⓘ |
| hasBuiltEnvironment |
historic buildings
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period shopfronts ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
historic
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pedestrian-friendly ⓘ |
| hasCity | Salisbury ⓘ |
| hasCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasEconomicRole |
local retail centre
ⓘ
tourist shopping area ⓘ |
| hasNameLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasStreetType | urban street ⓘ |
| hasUse |
commercial street
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shopping street ⓘ |
| isInRegion |
southwest England
ⓘ
surface form:
South West England
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| isPartOfUrbanFabric | Salisbury city centre street network ⓘ |
| isTouristAttractionIn | Salisbury ⓘ |
| knownFor |
period architecture
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retail activity ⓘ shops ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
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Salisbury ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ Wiltshire ⓘ |
| partOf | city centre of Salisbury ⓘ |
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: New Canal Description of subject: New Canal is a historic street and commercial thoroughfare in the city centre of Salisbury, England, known for its shops and period architecture.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.