Bollington Aqueduct
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Bollington Aqueduct is a historic stone canal aqueduct in Bollington, Cheshire, carrying the Macclesfield Canal over the River Dean and forming a notable local landmark.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bollington Aqueduct canonical | 1 |
| Clarence Mill Aqueduct | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4931894 — 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: Bollington Aqueduct Context triple: [Macclesfield Canal, hasAqueduct, Bollington Aqueduct]
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A.
Marple Aqueduct
Marple Aqueduct is a historic stone canal aqueduct in Marple, Greater Manchester, that carries the Peak Forest Canal across the River Goyt.
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B.
Barton Swing Aqueduct
Barton Swing Aqueduct is a pioneering movable navigable aqueduct in Greater Manchester, England, that carries the Bridgewater Canal over the Manchester Ship Canal by swinging aside to allow large ships to pass.
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C.
Ashton Canal aqueduct
The Ashton Canal aqueduct is a historic waterway structure in Greater Manchester, England, that carries the Ashton Canal over the River Tame as part of the region’s industrial-era canal network.
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D.
Ewood Aqueduct
Ewood Aqueduct is a historic waterway structure in Lancashire, England, that carries the Leeds and Liverpool Canal over the River Darwen.
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E.
Thelwall Viaduct
Thelwall Viaduct is a major motorway bridge in north-west England that carries the M6 over the River Mersey and surrounding waterways near Warrington.
- 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: Bollington Aqueduct Target entity description: Bollington Aqueduct is a historic stone canal aqueduct in Bollington, Cheshire, carrying the Macclesfield Canal over the River Dean and forming a notable local landmark.
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A.
Marple Aqueduct
Marple Aqueduct is a historic stone canal aqueduct in Marple, Greater Manchester, that carries the Peak Forest Canal across the River Goyt.
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B.
Barton Swing Aqueduct
Barton Swing Aqueduct is a pioneering movable navigable aqueduct in Greater Manchester, England, that carries the Bridgewater Canal over the Manchester Ship Canal by swinging aside to allow large ships to pass.
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C.
Ashton Canal aqueduct
The Ashton Canal aqueduct is a historic waterway structure in Greater Manchester, England, that carries the Ashton Canal over the River Tame as part of the region’s industrial-era canal network.
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D.
Ewood Aqueduct
Ewood Aqueduct is a historic waterway structure in Lancashire, England, that carries the Leeds and Liverpool Canal over the River Darwen.
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E.
Thelwall Viaduct
Thelwall Viaduct is a major motorway bridge in north-west England that carries the M6 over the River Mersey and surrounding waterways near Warrington.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal aqueduct
ⓘ
historic structure ⓘ stone aqueduct ⓘ |
| carries | Macclesfield Canal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Aqueducts in England
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Buildings and structures in Cheshire ⓘ Macclesfield Canal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crosses | River Dean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crossesWatercourse | River Dean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| forms | local landmark in Bollington ⓘ |
| hasFunction | to carry canal over river ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | listed structure (UK) ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bollington
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cheshire ⓘ England ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| near | Bollington town centre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
historic canal engineering
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stone construction ⓘ |
| partOf | Macclesfield Canal infrastructure NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | North West England ⓘ |
| usedFor | inland waterway transport ⓘ |
| waterway | Macclesfield Canal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Bollington Aqueduct Description of subject: Bollington Aqueduct is a historic stone canal aqueduct in Bollington, Cheshire, carrying the Macclesfield Canal over the River Dean and forming a notable local landmark.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Clarence Mill Aqueduct