Loughborough Lock
E461721
Loughborough Lock is a navigation lock on the River Soar in Loughborough, Leicestershire, helping boats pass between different water levels on the river.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Loughborough Lock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4652063 — 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: Loughborough Lock Context triple: [River Soar, hasLock, Loughborough Lock]
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A.
Hertford Lock
Hertford Lock is a navigation lock on the River Lea in Hertfordshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the waterway.
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B.
Eastham Lock
Eastham Lock is a major lock complex at the entrance of the Manchester Ship Canal near the River Mersey, enabling sea-going vessels to access the inland waterway.
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C.
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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D.
Sunbury Lock
Sunbury Lock is a lock on the River Thames in England, used to manage water levels and enable boats to navigate between different stretches of the river.
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E.
Gloucester Lock
Gloucester Lock is a canal lock in the city of Gloucester, England, that connects the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal with the River Severn and manages navigation between them.
- 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: Loughborough Lock Target entity description: Loughborough Lock is a navigation lock on the River Soar in Loughborough, Leicestershire, helping boats pass between different water levels on the river.
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A.
Hertford Lock
Hertford Lock is a navigation lock on the River Lea in Hertfordshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the waterway.
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B.
Eastham Lock
Eastham Lock is a major lock complex at the entrance of the Manchester Ship Canal near the River Mersey, enabling sea-going vessels to access the inland waterway.
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C.
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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D.
Sunbury Lock
Sunbury Lock is a lock on the River Thames in England, used to manage water levels and enable boats to navigate between different stretches of the river.
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E.
Gloucester Lock
Gloucester Lock is a canal lock in the city of Gloucester, England, that connects the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal with the River Severn and manages navigation between them.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lock on a river
ⓘ
navigation lock ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasAccess |
by boat
ⓘ
by towpath ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
gates controlling water level
ⓘ
lock chamber ⓘ sluices or paddles ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
enables boats to pass between different water levels
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facilitates navigation on the River Soar ⓘ |
| hasPurpose | to overcome changes in river level ⓘ |
| hasStructureType | chamber lock ⓘ |
| isInfrastructureType | waterway infrastructure ⓘ |
| isOnRiverSection | River Soar through Loughborough ⓘ |
| isPartOf | local navigation network in Leicestershire ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
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Leicestershire NERFINISHED ⓘ Loughborough NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Loughborough town centre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterway | River Soar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | River Soar navigation system ⓘ |
| region | East Midlands ⓘ |
| supportsVesselType |
narrowboats
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pleasure craft ⓘ small motor boats ⓘ |
| usedFor |
inland waterway navigation
ⓘ
passage of boats ⓘ |
| watercourse | River Soar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| waterwaySystem | River Soar 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: Loughborough Lock Description of subject: Loughborough Lock is a navigation lock on the River Soar in Loughborough, Leicestershire, helping boats pass between different water levels on the river.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.