Saint-Quentin Canal

E769071

canal waterway

The Saint-Quentin Canal is a historic French waterway in northern France, notable for its long tunnels and its role in connecting the Scheldt and Somme river basins for commercial navigation.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Canal de Saint-Quentin	2
Saint-Quentin Canal canonical	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	canal ⓘ waterway ⓘ
connects	Canal de la Somme NERFINISHED ⓘ Canal de l’Escaut NERFINISHED ⓘ Escaut River NERFINISHED ⓘ Oise River NERFINISHED ⓘ Scheldt river basin NERFINISHED ⓘ Somme river basin NERFINISHED ⓘ
constructionStartDate	early 19th century ⓘ
country	France ⓘ
designedFor	commercial navigation ⓘ
endPoint	Chauny NERFINISHED ⓘ
engineeringFeature	underground towage system in Riqueval Tunnel ⓘ
hasLockSystem	yes ⓘ
hasPart	Lesdins Tunnel NERFINISHED ⓘ Riqueval Tunnel NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-Quentin Canal tunnels NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasTunnel	Lesdins Tunnel NERFINISHED ⓘ Riqueval Tunnel NERFINISHED ⓘ
heritageStatus	historic waterway ⓘ
historicalSignificance	important link between Scheldt and Somme basins ⓘ strategic waterway in World War I ⓘ
inception	early 1800s ⓘ
length	approximately 92 km ⓘ
locatedIn	Aisne department NERFINISHED ⓘ Hauts-de-France ⓘ Nord department NERFINISHED ⓘ Somme department NERFINISHED ⓘ northern France NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedNear	Hindenburg Line NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedOnContinent	Europe ⓘ
notableFor	historic commercial navigation route ⓘ long canal tunnels ⓘ
opened	early 19th century ⓘ
operator	Voies navigables de France NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	French inland waterway network ⓘ
passesThrough	Riqueval NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-Quentin NERFINISHED ⓘ
startPoint	Cambrai NERFINISHED ⓘ
status	navigable ⓘ
tunnelLength	Lesdins Tunnel approximately 1 km ⓘ Riqueval Tunnel approximately 5.7 km ⓘ
usedFor	barge traffic ⓘ inland shipping ⓘ recreational boating ⓘ
waterwayType	freight canal ⓘ

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: Saint-Quentin Canal
Description of subject: The Saint-Quentin Canal is a historic French waterway in northern France, notable for its long tunnels and its role in connecting the Scheldt and Somme river basins for commercial navigation.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Saint-Quentin → hasNearbyInfrastructure → Saint-Quentin Canal ⓘ

Nord–Pas-de-Calais canal network → hasPart → Saint-Quentin Canal ⓘ

this entity surface form: Canal de Saint-Quentin

Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France → isOnWaterway → Saint-Quentin Canal ⓘ

this entity surface form: Canal de Saint-Quentin