Lock CS38
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Lock CS38 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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lock CS38 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4723675 — 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 CS38 Context triple: [Cayuga–Seneca Canal, hasLock, Lock CS38]
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A.
Lock CS33
Lock CS33 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 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.
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C.
Lock CS34
Lock CS34 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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D.
Lock CS30
Lock CS30 is a navigation lock on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the canal system.
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E.
Lock CS37
Lock CS37 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 CS38 Target entity description: Lock CS38 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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A.
Lock CS33
Lock CS33 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 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.
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C.
Lock CS34
Lock CS34 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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D.
Lock CS30
Lock CS30 is a navigation lock on New York State’s Cayuga–Seneca Canal that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the canal system.
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E.
Lock CS37
Lock CS37 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 (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal lock
ⓘ
infrastructure ⓘ navigation lock ⓘ |
| allowsPassageOf |
pleasure craft
ⓘ
small commercial vessels ⓘ |
| connectsWith | other locks on the Cayuga–Seneca Canal ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| function |
enables vessel navigation between different water levels
ⓘ
raises and lowers boats ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
lock walls
ⓘ
miter gates ⓘ navigation aids ⓘ water level control ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructureType | hydraulic engineering structure ⓘ |
| hasPart |
approach channels
ⓘ
control mechanisms ⓘ lock chamber ⓘ lock gates ⓘ valves ⓘ |
| isOn | Cayuga–Seneca Canal route NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New York State
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedOn | inland canal ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | New York State Canal Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| navigationRole | step in elevation change along Cayuga–Seneca Canal ⓘ |
| owner | State of New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cayuga–Seneca Canal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York State Canal System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose | to facilitate safe vessel transit between differing water elevations ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial navigation
ⓘ
inland waterway transportation ⓘ recreational boating ⓘ |
| waterway | Cayuga–Seneca Canal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| waterwaySystem | Erie Canal–connected New York State Canal System 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: Lock CS38 Description of subject: Lock CS38 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.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.