Lock CS12
E471390
Lock CS12 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 |
|---|---|
| Lock CS12 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4723649 — 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 CS12 Context triple: [Cayuga–Seneca Canal, hasLock, Lock CS12]
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A.
Lock CS11
Lock CS11 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 CS21
Lock CS21 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 CS10
Lock CS10 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, helping vessels transition between different water levels along the waterway.
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D.
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.
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E.
Lock CS31
Lock CS31 is a navigation lock on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the canal.
- 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 CS12 Target entity description: Lock CS12 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 CS11
Lock CS11 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 CS21
Lock CS21 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 CS10
Lock CS10 is one of the navigation locks on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal, helping vessels transition between different water levels along the waterway.
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D.
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.
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E.
Lock CS31
Lock CS31 is a navigation lock on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the canal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal lock
ⓘ
navigation lock ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasComponent |
control mechanisms
ⓘ
lock chamber ⓘ lock gates ⓘ water inlet and outlet valves ⓘ |
| hasFunction | water level control for navigation ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructureType | hydraulic engineering structure ⓘ |
| hasName | Lock CS12 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isNumbered | CS12 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cayuga–Seneca Canal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York State NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| operatedBy | New York State Canal Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Erie Canal–connected canal network
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York State Canal System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| supportsTraffic |
recreational boats
ⓘ
small commercial vessels ⓘ |
| usedFor |
lowering boats between different water levels
ⓘ
navigation of vessels on the Cayuga–Seneca Canal ⓘ raising boats between different water levels ⓘ |
| waterway | Cayuga–Seneca Canal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| waterwayType | inland waterway lock ⓘ |
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 CS12 Description of subject: Lock CS12 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.