Michigan Street Bridge
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The Michigan Street Bridge is a historic steel truss bridge spanning the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, known for its distinctive rolling lift bascule design.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michigan Street Bridge (Indianapolis) | 2 |
| Michigan Street Bridge canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13468122 — 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: Michigan Street Bridge Context triple: [Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, hasBridge, Michigan Street Bridge]
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A.
LaSalle Street Bridge
The LaSalle Street Bridge is a historic double-leaf bascule bridge in downtown Chicago, carrying LaSalle Street over the Chicago River and serving as an iconic part of the city's riverfront architecture.
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B.
South Halsted Street Bridge
The South Halsted Street Bridge is a historically significant movable bridge in Chicago, Illinois, recognized as an important example of early 20th-century bridge engineering.
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C.
DuSable Bridge
DuSable Bridge is a historic double-deck, double-leaf bascule bridge in downtown Chicago, renowned as a key landmark connecting Michigan Avenue across the Chicago River.
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D.
Montlake Bridge
Montlake Bridge is a historic double-leaf bascule drawbridge in Seattle, Washington, carrying traffic across the Lake Washington Ship Canal between the University District and the Montlake neighborhood.
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E.
North Avenue Bridge
North Avenue Bridge is a Chicago roadway bridge that carries North Avenue over the Chicago River near the site of the former North Avenue Dam.
- 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: Michigan Street Bridge Target entity description: The Michigan Street Bridge is a historic steel truss bridge spanning the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, known for its distinctive rolling lift bascule design.
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A.
LaSalle Street Bridge
The LaSalle Street Bridge is a historic double-leaf bascule bridge in downtown Chicago, carrying LaSalle Street over the Chicago River and serving as an iconic part of the city's riverfront architecture.
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B.
South Halsted Street Bridge
The South Halsted Street Bridge is a historically significant movable bridge in Chicago, Illinois, recognized as an important example of early 20th-century bridge engineering.
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C.
DuSable Bridge
DuSable Bridge is a historic double-deck, double-leaf bascule bridge in downtown Chicago, renowned as a key landmark connecting Michigan Avenue across the Chicago River.
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D.
Montlake Bridge
Montlake Bridge is a historic double-leaf bascule drawbridge in Seattle, Washington, carrying traffic across the Lake Washington Ship Canal between the University District and the Montlake neighborhood.
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E.
North Avenue Bridge
North Avenue Bridge is a Chicago roadway bridge that carries North Avenue over the Chicago River near the site of the former North Avenue Dam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bascule bridge
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historic bridge ⓘ movable bridge ⓘ road bridge ⓘ steel truss bridge ⓘ |
| city |
Sturgeon Bay
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linked to:
Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
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| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| crosses |
Sturgeon Bay
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linked to:
Port of Sturgeon Bay
Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal ⓘ |
| function | connects the two sides of Sturgeon Bay across the ship canal ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Bascule bridges in the United States
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Bridges in Wisconsin ⓘ Bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin ⓘ Road bridges in Wisconsin ⓘ Steel bridges in the United States ⓘ Truss bridges in the United States ⓘ |
| hasDesign |
rolling lift bascule
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steel truss ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | listed on the National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| hasMaterial | steel ⓘ |
| hasMovableSpanType | bascule ⓘ |
| hasStructureType | truss bridge ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
transportation infrastructure of Door County, Wisconsin
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transportation infrastructure of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Door County, Wisconsin
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linked to:
Door County
Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Wisconsin ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
City of Sturgeon Bay
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linked to:
Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
Wisconsin Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Michigan Street ⓘ |
| notableFor |
distinctive rolling lift bascule design
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historic engineering significance ⓘ |
| roadCarried | Michigan Street ⓘ |
| state | Wisconsin ⓘ |
| usedFor |
pedestrian traffic
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vehicular traffic ⓘ |
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: Michigan Street Bridge Description of subject: The Michigan Street Bridge is a historic steel truss bridge spanning the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, known for its distinctive rolling lift bascule design.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Michigan Street Bridge
linked to: Michigan Street Bridge