Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
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Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal is a renowned early 19th-century engineering masterpiece in Wales, featuring a towering cast-iron aqueduct that carries the Llangollen Canal high above the River Dee.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pontcysyllte Aqueduct | 13 |
| Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal canonical | 9 |
| UNESCO World Heritage Site (Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal) | 1 |
| World Heritage Site Pontcysyllte Aqueduct | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T490865 — 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: Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal Context triple: [Wales, hasUNESCOWorldHeritageSite, Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal]
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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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Swilcan Bridge
Swilcan Bridge is a small, historic stone footbridge on the 18th hole of the Old Course at St Andrews, iconic in golf for the traditional photographs of players crossing it.
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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.
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Standedge tunnels
The Standedge Tunnels are a historic series of canal and railway tunnels piercing the Pennines in northern England, known as some of the longest and highest transport tunnels in the UK.
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Long Bridge
Long Bridge is a major railroad bridge over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., carrying freight and passenger trains between the District of Columbia and Virginia.
- 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: Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal Target entity description: Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal is a renowned early 19th-century engineering masterpiece in Wales, featuring a towering cast-iron aqueduct that carries the Llangollen Canal high above the River Dee.
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A.
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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B.
Swilcan Bridge
Swilcan Bridge is a small, historic stone footbridge on the 18th hole of the Old Course at St Andrews, iconic in golf for the traditional photographs of players crossing it.
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C.
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.
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D.
Standedge tunnels
The Standedge Tunnels are a historic series of canal and railway tunnels piercing the Pennines in northern England, known as some of the longest and highest transport tunnels in the UK.
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E.
Long Bridge
Long Bridge is a major railroad bridge over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., carrying freight and passenger trains between the District of Columbia and Virginia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal Description of subject: Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal is a renowned early 19th-century engineering masterpiece in Wales, featuring a towering cast-iron aqueduct that carries the Llangollen Canal high above the River Dee.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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World Heritage Site Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
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Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
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Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
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Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
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Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
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Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
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Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
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Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
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Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
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UNESCO World Heritage Site (Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal)
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Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
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Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
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Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
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