Ship Canal
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The Ship Canal in Seattle is a man-made waterway connecting Lake Washington to Puget Sound, shaping the city’s geography, infrastructure, and maritime activity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ship Canal canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8928017 — 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: Ship Canal Context triple: [Seattle street grid, constrainedBy, Ship Canal]
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A.
Gage Canal
Gage Canal is a historic irrigation canal in Riverside, California, that played a crucial role in developing the region’s citrus industry and agricultural growth.
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B.
Hansi Branch Canal
Hansi Branch Canal is a major irrigation canal in Haryana, India, that diverts water from the Western Yamuna Canal to serve agricultural areas in the region.
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C.
Canso Canal
The Canso Canal is a navigation channel in Nova Scotia that allows ships to pass between the Atlantic Ocean and the Northumberland Strait through the Canso Causeway.
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D.
Landwehr Canal
The Landwehr Canal is a 19th-century man-made waterway in Berlin that runs parallel to the River Spree and passes through several central districts, serving both transport and recreational purposes.
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E.
Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal is a man-made waterway in Illinois that reverses the flow of the Chicago River, diverts wastewater away from Lake Michigan, and serves as a key navigation link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River system.
- 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: Ship Canal Target entity description: The Ship Canal in Seattle is a man-made waterway connecting Lake Washington to Puget Sound, shaping the city’s geography, infrastructure, and maritime activity.
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A.
Gage Canal
Gage Canal is a historic irrigation canal in Riverside, California, that played a crucial role in developing the region’s citrus industry and agricultural growth.
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B.
Hansi Branch Canal
Hansi Branch Canal is a major irrigation canal in Haryana, India, that diverts water from the Western Yamuna Canal to serve agricultural areas in the region.
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C.
Canso Canal
The Canso Canal is a navigation channel in Nova Scotia that allows ships to pass between the Atlantic Ocean and the Northumberland Strait through the Canso Causeway.
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D.
Landwehr Canal
The Landwehr Canal is a 19th-century man-made waterway in Berlin that runs parallel to the River Spree and passes through several central districts, serving both transport and recreational purposes.
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E.
Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal is a man-made waterway in Illinois that reverses the flow of the Chicago River, diverts wastewater away from Lake Michigan, and serves as a key navigation link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal
ⓘ
infrastructure ⓘ man-made waterway ⓘ |
| artificial | true ⓘ |
| cityServed | Seattle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsBodyOfWater |
Lake Union
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lake Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Portage Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ Puget Sound NERFINISHED ⓘ Salmon Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ Union Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructionCompleted | 1917 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crossedBy |
Aurora Bridge
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ballard Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ Fremont Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ I-5 Ship Canal Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ Montlake Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ University Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLock | Hiram M. Chittenden Locks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Ballard Locks
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fremont Cut NERFINISHED ⓘ Hiram M. Chittenden Locks NERFINISHED ⓘ Montlake Cut NERFINISHED ⓘ Portage Canal NERFINISHED ⓘ Salmon Bay Waterway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influences |
Seattle geography
ⓘ
Seattle infrastructure ⓘ Seattle maritime activity ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Pacific Northwest
ⓘ
Seattle NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Washington State
|
| maintainedBy | United States Army Corps of Engineers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyNeighborhood |
Ballard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fremont NERFINISHED ⓘ Montlake NERFINISHED ⓘ Queen Anne NERFINISHED ⓘ University District NERFINISHED ⓘ Wallingford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Lake Washington Ship Canal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | King County, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| separates |
Central Seattle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Seattle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial shipping
ⓘ
fishing vessel transit ⓘ maritime transport ⓘ recreational boating ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| waterwayType | ship canal ⓘ |
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: Ship Canal Description of subject: The Ship Canal in Seattle is a man-made waterway connecting Lake Washington to Puget Sound, shaping the city’s geography, infrastructure, and maritime activity.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.