Lock CS40
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Lock CS40 is a navigation lock on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the waterway.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lock CS40 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4723677 — 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 CS40 Context triple: [Cayuga–Seneca Canal, hasLock, Lock CS40]
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A.
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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B.
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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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 CS2
Lock CS2 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.
- 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 CS40 Target entity description: Lock CS40 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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A.
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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B.
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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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 CS2
Lock CS2 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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal lock
ⓘ
navigation lock ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| function | enables vessels to transition between different water levels ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
control mechanisms
ⓘ
lock chamber ⓘ lock gates ⓘ |
| hasStructureType | chamber lock ⓘ |
| isPartOfRoute | Cayuga–Seneca Canal navigation route NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterway | Cayuga–Seneca Canal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| managingAuthority | New York State Canal Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | New York State Canal System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| supportsTraffic |
commercial vessels
ⓘ
recreational vessels ⓘ |
| usedFor | navigation ⓘ |
| waterLevelControl | vertical water level change for vessels ⓘ |
| waterwayConnectsTo |
Erie Canal system
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Finger Lakes region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| waterwayTypeServed | inland canal ⓘ |
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 CS40 Description of subject: Lock CS40 is a navigation lock on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the waterway.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.