Thurmaston Lock
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Thurmaston Lock is a navigation lock on the River Soar in Leicestershire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thurmaston Lock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4652066 — 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: Thurmaston Lock Context triple: [River Soar, hasLock, Thurmaston Lock]
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A.
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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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.
Allington Lock
Allington Lock is a key navigation and flood-control lock on the River Medway in Kent, England, marking the tidal limit of the river.
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D.
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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E.
Stoke Lock
Stoke Lock is a navigation lock on the River Wey in Surrey, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage 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: Thurmaston Lock Target entity description: Thurmaston Lock is a navigation lock on the River Soar in Leicestershire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
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A.
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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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.
Allington Lock
Allington Lock is a key navigation and flood-control lock on the River Medway in Kent, England, marking the tidal limit of the river.
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D.
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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E.
Stoke Lock
Stoke Lock is a navigation lock on the River Wey in Surrey, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the waterway.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lock on a river
ⓘ
navigation lock ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasAccess |
boats
ⓘ
narrowboats ⓘ pleasure craft ⓘ |
| hasControlStructure |
lock gates
ⓘ
paddles or sluices ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
enable boat passage
ⓘ
water level control ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructureType | inland waterway infrastructure ⓘ |
| isOnRoute | Soar navigation between Leicester and Loughborough ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
Leicestershire NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterway | River Soar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedFor | safe navigation on the River Soar ⓘ |
| manages | water levels on the River Soar ⓘ |
| near | Thurmaston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | River Soar navigation system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose | to allow vessels to bypass changes in river level ⓘ |
| region | East Midlands ⓘ |
| usedFor | navigation ⓘ |
| 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: Thurmaston Lock Description of subject: Thurmaston Lock is a navigation lock on the River Soar in Leicestershire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.