Tinsley Locks
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Tinsley Locks is a flight of canal locks near Sheffield, England, that raises the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation from the River Don up to the city’s canal basin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tinsley Locks canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5047881 — 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: Tinsley Locks Context triple: [Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation, hasPart, Tinsley Locks]
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A.
Dutton Locks
Dutton Locks is a set of navigation locks on the River Weaver in Cheshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
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B.
Eastham Locks
Eastham Locks is a set of ship locks on the Manchester Ship Canal in Cheshire, England, serving as a key gateway between the canal and the River Mersey.
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C.
Kingston Mills Locks
Kingston Mills Locks is a historic lockstation at the southern entrance of Canada’s Rideau Canal, known for its 19th-century engineering works and scenic setting near Kingston, Ontario.
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D.
Bosley Locks
Bosley Locks is a historic flight of canal locks in Cheshire, England, that raises the Macclesfield Canal up the side of the Bosley Cloud hill.
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E.
Burleigh Falls Lock
Burleigh Falls Lock is a canal lock on Ontario’s Trent–Severn Waterway, known for managing navigation and water levels near the scenic Burleigh Falls area.
- 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: Tinsley Locks Target entity description: Tinsley Locks is a flight of canal locks near Sheffield, England, that raises the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation from the River Don up to the city’s canal basin.
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A.
Dutton Locks
Dutton Locks is a set of navigation locks on the River Weaver in Cheshire, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
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B.
Eastham Locks
Eastham Locks is a set of ship locks on the Manchester Ship Canal in Cheshire, England, serving as a key gateway between the canal and the River Mersey.
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C.
Kingston Mills Locks
Kingston Mills Locks is a historic lockstation at the southern entrance of Canada’s Rideau Canal, known for its 19th-century engineering works and scenic setting near Kingston, Ontario.
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D.
Bosley Locks
Bosley Locks is a historic flight of canal locks in Cheshire, England, that raises the Macclesfield Canal up the side of the Bosley Cloud hill.
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E.
Burleigh Falls Lock
Burleigh Falls Lock is a canal lock on Ontario’s Trent–Severn Waterway, known for managing navigation and water levels near the scenic Burleigh Falls area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal infrastructure
ⓘ
flight of canal locks ⓘ |
| connectedTo | River Don NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo | Sheffield Canal Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| hasAccess | public footpath ⓘ |
| hasConstructionMaterial |
brick
ⓘ
stone ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
lock cottages
ⓘ
manual lock operation ⓘ paddle gear ⓘ towpath ⓘ weirs ⓘ |
| hasLockType | narrow locks ⓘ |
| hasNearbyCity | Rotherham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbySettlement | Tinsley village ⓘ |
| hasNearbyUse |
industrial areas
ⓘ
residential areas ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfLocks | 12 ⓘ |
| hasStatus | operational ⓘ |
| historicalUse |
transport of coal
ⓘ
transport of steel products ⓘ |
| isEngineeringStructureOn | Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | British canal network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOfRoute | inland waterway route to Sheffield ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
South Yorkshire ⓘ Tinsley NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Sheffield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| navigationAuthority | Canal & River Trust NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearInfrastructure | M1 motorway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearLandmark | Tinsley Viaduct NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| onWaterway | Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Canal & River Trust NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUse | commercial navigation ⓘ |
| raisesWaterwayFrom | River Don level ⓘ |
| raisesWaterwayTo | Sheffield canal basin level ⓘ |
| region | Yorkshire and the Humber ⓘ |
| secondaryUse | leisure boating ⓘ |
| servesCity | Sheffield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor | raising boats between River Don and Sheffield basin ⓘ |
| waterwaySystem | River Don catchment ⓘ |
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: Tinsley Locks Description of subject: Tinsley Locks is a flight of canal locks near Sheffield, England, that raises the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation from the River Don up to the city’s canal basin.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.