Birstall Lock
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Birstall Lock is a canal lock on the River Soar in Leicestershire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat navigation along the river.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Birstall Lock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4652062 — 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: Birstall Lock Context triple: [River Soar, hasLock, Birstall Lock]
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A.
Kirkstead Lock
Kirkstead Lock is a navigation lock on the River Witham in Lincolnshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
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B.
Catteshall Lock
Catteshall Lock is a historic navigation lock on the River Wey in Surrey, England, forming part of one of the country’s earliest commercial waterways.
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C.
Barton Lock
Barton Lock is a lock on the Manchester Ship Canal that enables vessels to navigate changes in water level along this major industrial waterway in northwest England.
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D.
Saltersford Lock
Saltersford Lock is a navigation lock on the River Weaver in Cheshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
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E.
Bardney Lock
Bardney Lock is a navigation lock on the River Witham in Lincolnshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
- 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: Birstall Lock Target entity description: Birstall Lock is a canal lock on the River Soar in Leicestershire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat navigation along the river.
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A.
Kirkstead Lock
Kirkstead Lock is a navigation lock on the River Witham in Lincolnshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
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B.
Catteshall Lock
Catteshall Lock is a historic navigation lock on the River Wey in Surrey, England, forming part of one of the country’s earliest commercial waterways.
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C.
Barton Lock
Barton Lock is a lock on the Manchester Ship Canal that enables vessels to navigate changes in water level along this major industrial waterway in northwest England.
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D.
Saltersford Lock
Saltersford Lock is a navigation lock on the River Weaver in Cheshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
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E.
Bardney Lock
Bardney Lock is a navigation lock on the River Witham in Lincolnshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal lock
ⓘ
navigation lock ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| environment | River Soar valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAccess | towpath ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
lower boats between different water levels
ⓘ
raise boats between different water levels ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
flood management assistance
ⓘ
navigation control ⓘ |
| hasStructureType | chamber lock ⓘ |
| isInBasinCountry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | British inland waterways network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Birstall
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
England ⓘ Leicestershire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeArea | Charnwood (borough) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterway | River Soar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manages | water levels ⓘ |
| near |
Birstall village centre
ⓘ
Leicester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | River Soar navigation ⓘ |
| region | East Midlands ⓘ |
| usedBy |
canal boats
ⓘ
narrowboats ⓘ pleasure craft ⓘ |
| usedFor |
boat navigation
ⓘ
inland waterway transport ⓘ |
| watercourse | River Soar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| waterwayType | river 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: Birstall Lock Description of subject: Birstall Lock is a canal lock on the River Soar in Leicestershire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat navigation along the river.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.