Selby Canal
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Selby Canal is a man-made navigation in North Yorkshire, England, built to provide a more direct and controlled route for boats between Selby and the wider inland waterway network.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Selby Canal canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9638125 — 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: Selby Canal Context triple: [River Ouse, connectedWaterway, Selby Canal]
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A.
Pembroke Canal
Pembroke Canal is a waterway in Pembroke Parish, Bermuda, historically used to improve local transportation and drainage within the parish.
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B.
Derby Canal
The Derby Canal was a historic English waterway in Derbyshire that played a key role in the region’s 18th- and 19th-century industrial transport network before its eventual closure and partial infilling.
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C.
Ellesmere Canal
The Ellesmere Canal is a historic English waterway that formed part of an ambitious late-18th-century canal network linking the industrial Midlands to the River Mersey and the Welsh border regions.
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D.
Keadby Canal
Keadby Canal is a navigable waterway in South Yorkshire, England, linking inland navigation routes to the River Trent near the village of Keadby.
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E.
Chesterfield Canal
The Chesterfield Canal is a historic English waterway running through Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and South Yorkshire, known for its restored locks, rural scenery, and role in the region’s industrial heritage.
- 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: Selby Canal Target entity description: Selby Canal is a man-made navigation in North Yorkshire, England, built to provide a more direct and controlled route for boats between Selby and the wider inland waterway network.
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A.
Pembroke Canal
Pembroke Canal is a waterway in Pembroke Parish, Bermuda, historically used to improve local transportation and drainage within the parish.
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B.
Derby Canal
The Derby Canal was a historic English waterway in Derbyshire that played a key role in the region’s 18th- and 19th-century industrial transport network before its eventual closure and partial infilling.
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C.
Ellesmere Canal
The Ellesmere Canal is a historic English waterway that formed part of an ambitious late-18th-century canal network linking the industrial Midlands to the River Mersey and the Welsh border regions.
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D.
Keadby Canal
Keadby Canal is a navigable waterway in South Yorkshire, England, linking inland navigation routes to the River Trent near the village of Keadby.
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E.
Chesterfield Canal
The Chesterfield Canal is a historic English waterway running through Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and South Yorkshire, known for its restored locks, rural scenery, and role in the region’s industrial heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal
ⓘ
navigation ⓘ |
| builtFor | improving trade routes to the Humber estuary ⓘ |
| connectedTown | Selby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Aire and Calder Navigation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Humber estuary via River Ouse ⓘ River Ouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructionPurpose | to provide a more direct and controlled route between Selby and the inland waterway network ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 1775 ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| crosses | flat low-lying agricultural land ⓘ |
| engineeringFeature | artificial cut separate from the natural river course ⓘ |
| hasBankType | embanked sections ⓘ |
| hasBridge |
fixed road bridges
ⓘ
swing bridges ⓘ |
| hasFeature | Selby Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTowpath | yes ⓘ |
| hasUseRestriction | pleasure craft speed limits ⓘ |
| historicalEra | 18th-century canal construction in Britain ⓘ |
| historicalUse | commercial freight ⓘ |
| isPartOf | British canal network ⓘ |
| length |
6 miles
ⓘ
approximately 9.7 kilometres ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
North Yorkshire
ⓘ
Selby District NERFINISHED ⓘ Yorkshire and the Humber ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Selby Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lockName | Selby Lock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lockType | tidal lock ⓘ |
| navigationAuthority | Canal & River Trust NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbySettlement |
Barlby
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Burn ⓘ Thorpe Willoughby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfLocks | 1 ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1778 ⓘ |
| originalNavigationAuthority | Aire and Calder Navigation Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Aire and Calder Navigation system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
leisure boating
ⓘ
recreational navigation ⓘ |
| regionServed | Vale of York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | navigable ⓘ |
| terminus | Selby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
angling
ⓘ
boating ⓘ walking ⓘ |
| waterSource | River Aire via Aire and Calder Navigation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| waterwayNetwork | Inland waterway network of England ⓘ |
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: Selby Canal Description of subject: Selby Canal is a man-made navigation in North Yorkshire, England, built to provide a more direct and controlled route for boats between Selby and the wider inland waterway network.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.