Marco Polo Bridge
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Marco Polo Bridge is a historic stone bridge near Beijing, China, renowned both for its distinctive carved stone lions and as the site of the 1937 clash that marked the start of full-scale war between China and Japan.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marco Polo Bridge canonical | 11 |
| Lugou Bridge | 2 |
| Lukou Bridge | 1 |
| Marco Polo Bridge railway line | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T96603 — 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: Marco Polo Bridge Context triple: [Marco Polo Bridge Incident, place, Marco Polo Bridge]
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Crimean Bridge
The Crimean Bridge is a massive road-and-rail bridge spanning the Kerch Strait, linking mainland Russia with the Crimean Peninsula and serving as a key strategic and political infrastructure project.
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Tobin Bridge
The Tobin Bridge is a major steel cantilever bridge in the Boston area that carries U.S. Route 1 over the Mystic River, connecting Boston and Chelsea, Massachusetts.
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St. Johns Bridge
St. Johns Bridge is a historic steel suspension bridge in Portland, Oregon, noted for its striking Gothic-style towers and scenic span over the Willamette River.
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Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge
The Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge is a major double-deck road and rail bridge in Wuhan, China, and one of the earliest and most iconic crossings over the Yangtze River.
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Key Bridge
Key Bridge is a historic steel-arch bridge spanning the Potomac River, connecting Washington, D.C. to Arlington, Virginia.
- 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: Marco Polo Bridge Target entity description: Marco Polo Bridge is a historic stone bridge near Beijing, China, renowned both for its distinctive carved stone lions and as the site of the 1937 clash that marked the start of full-scale war between China and Japan.
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A.
Crimean Bridge
The Crimean Bridge is a massive road-and-rail bridge spanning the Kerch Strait, linking mainland Russia with the Crimean Peninsula and serving as a key strategic and political infrastructure project.
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B.
Tobin Bridge
The Tobin Bridge is a major steel cantilever bridge in the Boston area that carries U.S. Route 1 over the Mystic River, connecting Boston and Chelsea, Massachusetts.
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C.
St. Johns Bridge
St. Johns Bridge is a historic steel suspension bridge in Portland, Oregon, noted for its striking Gothic-style towers and scenic span over the Willamette River.
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Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge
The Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge is a major double-deck road and rail bridge in Wuhan, China, and one of the earliest and most iconic crossings over the Yangtze River.
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Key Bridge
Key Bridge is a historic steel-arch bridge spanning the Potomac River, connecting Washington, D.C. to Arlington, Virginia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Marco Polo Bridge Description of subject: Marco Polo Bridge is a historic stone bridge near Beijing, China, renowned both for its distinctive carved stone lions and as the site of the 1937 clash that marked the start of full-scale war between China and Japan.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lugou Bridge
this entity surface form:
Lugou Bridge
this entity surface form:
Lukou Bridge
Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
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Marco Polo Bridge
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this entity surface form:
Marco Polo Bridge railway line