Franklin Lock and Dam
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Franklin Lock and Dam is a water control structure on Florida’s Caloosahatchee River that manages river flow, navigation, and flood control as part of the region’s water management system.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Franklin Lock and Dam canonical | 1 |
| Moore Haven Lock and Dam | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9874990 — 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: Franklin Lock and Dam Context triple: [Caloosahatchee River, hasStructure, Franklin Lock and Dam]
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A.
Wheeler Lock and Dam
Wheeler Lock and Dam is a major navigation and hydroelectric structure on the Tennessee River in northern Alabama, forming Wheeler Lake and facilitating river traffic and power generation.
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B.
Murray Lock and Dam
Murray Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Arkansas River near Little Rock, Arkansas, that helps regulate river flow and support commercial barge traffic.
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C.
Alton Lock and Dam
Alton Lock and Dam is a major navigation and flood-control structure on the Mississippi River that helps regulate river traffic and water levels as part of the Illinois Waterway system.
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D.
McNary Lock and Dam
McNary Lock and Dam is a navigation lock facility integrated into the McNary Dam complex on the Columbia River, enabling river traffic to bypass the dam.
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E.
Dresden Island Lock and Dam
Dresden Island Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Illinois Waterway that helps regulate river levels and facilitate barge traffic in northeastern Illinois.
- 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: Franklin Lock and Dam Target entity description: Franklin Lock and Dam is a water control structure on Florida’s Caloosahatchee River that manages river flow, navigation, and flood control as part of the region’s water management system.
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A.
Wheeler Lock and Dam
Wheeler Lock and Dam is a major navigation and hydroelectric structure on the Tennessee River in northern Alabama, forming Wheeler Lake and facilitating river traffic and power generation.
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B.
Murray Lock and Dam
Murray Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Arkansas River near Little Rock, Arkansas, that helps regulate river flow and support commercial barge traffic.
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C.
Alton Lock and Dam
Alton Lock and Dam is a major navigation and flood-control structure on the Mississippi River that helps regulate river traffic and water levels as part of the Illinois Waterway system.
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D.
McNary Lock and Dam
McNary Lock and Dam is a navigation lock facility integrated into the McNary Dam complex on the Columbia River, enabling river traffic to bypass the dam.
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E.
Dresden Island Lock and Dam
Dresden Island Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Illinois Waterway that helps regulate river levels and facilitate barge traffic in northeastern Illinois.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lock and dam
ⓘ
navigation lock ⓘ water control structure ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Franklin Dam
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Franklin Lock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| controls | water levels on the Caloosahatchee River ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasComponent |
dam structure
ⓘ
navigation lock chamber ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
flood control
ⓘ
navigation ⓘ water level regulation ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
to manage river flow
ⓘ
to provide flood control ⓘ to support navigation ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
regional flood control infrastructure
ⓘ
regional navigation infrastructure ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Florida
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedOn | Caloosahatchee River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manages | river flow ⓘ |
| partOf |
Caloosahatchee River water management system
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
regional water management system ⓘ |
| usedFor |
flood risk reduction
ⓘ
inland navigation ⓘ water management ⓘ |
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: Franklin Lock and Dam Description of subject: Franklin Lock and Dam is a water control structure on Florida’s Caloosahatchee River that manages river flow, navigation, and flood control as part of the region’s water management system.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Moore Haven Lock and Dam