Lock CS5
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Lock CS5 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels along the waterway.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lock CS5 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4723642 — 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: Lock CS5 Context triple: [Cayuga–Seneca Canal, hasLock, Lock CS5]
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Lock CS3
Lock CS3 is a navigation lock on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the waterway.
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Lock CS4
Lock CS4 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels along the waterway.
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C.
Lock CS8
Lock CS8 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, helping vessels transition between different water levels along the canal route.
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D.
Lock CS9
Lock CS9 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, helping vessels transit between different water levels along the canal route.
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E.
Lock CS1
Lock CS1 is a navigation lock on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the 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: Lock CS5 Target entity description: Lock CS5 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels along the waterway.
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A.
Lock CS3
Lock CS3 is a navigation lock on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the waterway.
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B.
Lock CS4
Lock CS4 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels along the waterway.
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C.
Lock CS8
Lock CS8 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, helping vessels transition between different water levels along the canal route.
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D.
Lock CS9
Lock CS9 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, helping vessels transit between different water levels along the canal route.
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E.
Lock CS1
Lock CS1 is a navigation lock on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the waterway.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal lock
ⓘ
infrastructure ⓘ navigation lock ⓘ |
| connectsToSystem | Erie Canal (via New York State Canal System) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasAccess | boat traffic only ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
chamber for raising and lowering vessels
ⓘ
gates to control water level ⓘ mechanisms to fill and empty lock chamber ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructureType |
navigation infrastructure
ⓘ
water control structure ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction | New York State canal authorities NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLockNumber | CS5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasName | Lock CS5 ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
to enable vessels to bypass changes in elevation
ⓘ
to support inland water transportation ⓘ |
| hasSafetyRequirement |
vessels must follow lock operator instructions
ⓘ
vessels must secure lines while in lock chamber ⓘ |
| isComponentOf | New York State inland waterway network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isOnWaterway | Cayuga–Seneca Canal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOfTransportNetwork | Inland water transport in New York State ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | navigation rules of New York State Canal System ⓘ |
| isUsedDuring | navigation season on New York State canals ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Cayuga–Seneca Canal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | State of New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Upstate New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | New York State Canal Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | New York State Canal Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | State of New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cayuga–Seneca Canal lock system
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York State Canal System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regulates | water level for vessel passage ⓘ |
| usedFor |
navigation
ⓘ
recreational boating ⓘ small commercial vessel transit ⓘ |
| waterwayFunction |
lowers boats between different water levels
ⓘ
raises boats between different water levels ⓘ |
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: Lock CS5 Description of subject: Lock CS5 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels along the waterway.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.