Hungerford lock
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Hungerford Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal near Hungerford in Berkshire, England, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hungerford lock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10796134 — 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: Hungerford lock Context triple: [Hungerford Wharf, hasNearbyFeature, Hungerford lock]
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A.
Hunts Lock
Hunts Lock is a navigation lock on the River Weaver in Cheshire, England, used to manage water levels and allow boats to pass along the river.
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B.
Gladstone Lock
Gladstone Lock is a major ship lock within the Port of Liverpool that enables large vessels to access the port’s dock system from the River Mersey.
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C.
Sandford Lock
Sandford Lock is a navigation lock on the River Chelmer in Essex, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
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D.
Loughborough Lock
Loughborough Lock is a navigation lock on the River Soar in Loughborough, Leicestershire, helping boats pass between different water levels on the river.
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E.
Marlow Lock
Marlow Lock is a historic lock on the River Thames in England, known for serving river traffic near the town of Marlow and contributing to the area's scenic riverside character.
- 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: Hungerford lock Target entity description: Hungerford Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal near Hungerford in Berkshire, England, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels.
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A.
Hunts Lock
Hunts Lock is a navigation lock on the River Weaver in Cheshire, England, used to manage water levels and allow boats to pass along the river.
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B.
Gladstone Lock
Gladstone Lock is a major ship lock within the Port of Liverpool that enables large vessels to access the port’s dock system from the River Mersey.
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C.
Sandford Lock
Sandford Lock is a navigation lock on the River Chelmer in Essex, England, used to manage water levels and enable boat passage along the river.
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D.
Loughborough Lock
Loughborough Lock is a navigation lock on the River Soar in Loughborough, Leicestershire, helping boats pass between different water levels on the river.
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E.
Marlow Lock
Marlow Lock is a historic lock on the River Thames in England, known for serving river traffic near the town of Marlow and contributing to the area's scenic riverside character.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal lock
ⓘ
structure ⓘ |
| category | Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal ⓘ |
| constructionType | man-made water control structure ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| hasAccess | towpath ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
navigation control
ⓘ
water level management ⓘ |
| heritageContext | British inland waterways ⓘ |
| isInfrastructureFor |
inland water transport
ⓘ
recreational boating ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Berkshire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
England ⓘ Hungerford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterway | Kennet and Avon Canal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | Hungerford town centre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedIn | freshwater environment ⓘ |
| partOf | Kennet and Avon Canal lock system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | South East England ⓘ |
| serves | boat traffic ⓘ |
| usedFor |
lowering boats between different water levels
ⓘ
raising boats between different water levels ⓘ |
| waterwayNetwork | Kennet and Avon Canal navigation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| waterwayType | 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: Hungerford lock Description of subject: Hungerford Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal near Hungerford in Berkshire, England, used to raise and lower boats between different water levels.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.