Whitestone Bridge
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The Whitestone Bridge is a major suspension bridge in New York City that connects the Bronx and Queens across the East River, serving as a key link between the city and Long Island.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Whitestone Bridge canonical | 23 |
| Bronx–Whitestone Bridge | 22 |
| Bronx-Whitestone Bridge | 2 |
| Bronx–Whitestone Bridge facilities | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23883 — 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: Whitestone Bridge Context triple: [East River, crossedBy, Whitestone Bridge]
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A.
Queensboro Bridge
The Queensboro Bridge is a major cantilever bridge in New York City that connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens and is a key artery for vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic.
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B.
Williamsburg Bridge
The Williamsburg Bridge is a large suspension bridge in New York City that connects the Lower East Side of Manhattan with the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn.
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C.
Tappan Zee Bridge
The Tappan Zee Bridge was a major highway span in New York that carried traffic across the Hudson River between Westchester and Rockland counties, north of New York City.
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D.
George Washington Bridge
The George Washington Bridge is a major double-decked suspension bridge connecting Manhattan in New York City to Fort Lee in New Jersey and serving as a key transportation link in the northeastern United States.
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E.
Manhattan Bridge
The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge in New York City that connects Lower Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn and carries both vehicular traffic and subway lines.
- 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: Whitestone Bridge Target entity description: The Whitestone Bridge is a major suspension bridge in New York City that connects the Bronx and Queens across the East River, serving as a key link between the city and Long Island.
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A.
Queensboro Bridge
The Queensboro Bridge is a major cantilever bridge in New York City that connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens and is a key artery for vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic.
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B.
Williamsburg Bridge
The Williamsburg Bridge is a large suspension bridge in New York City that connects the Lower East Side of Manhattan with the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn.
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C.
Tappan Zee Bridge
The Tappan Zee Bridge was a major highway span in New York that carried traffic across the Hudson River between Westchester and Rockland counties, north of New York City.
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D.
George Washington Bridge
The George Washington Bridge is a major double-decked suspension bridge connecting Manhattan in New York City to Fort Lee in New Jersey and serving as a key transportation link in the northeastern United States.
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E.
Manhattan Bridge
The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge in New York City that connects Lower Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn and carries both vehicular traffic and subway lines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road bridge
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suspension bridge ⓘ toll bridge ⓘ |
| architect | Aymar Embury II ⓘ |
| carries |
Interstate highway traffic
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local traffic between Bronx and Queens ⓘ |
| category |
Bridges in New York City
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Road bridges in New York State ⓘ Suspension bridges in the United States ⓘ |
| clearanceBelow |
154 ft
ⓘ
47 m ⓘ |
| connects |
Bronx
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linked to:
The Bronx
Long Island ⓘ Queens ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1937 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| crosses | East River ⓘ |
| designer | Othmar Ammann ⓘ |
| hasTowers | 2 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New York City
ⓘ
New York State ⓘ
linked to:
New York
Throggs Neck, Bronx ⓘ
linked to:
Throggs Neck
Whitestone, Queens ⓘ |
| mainSpanLength |
2300 ft
ⓘ
701 m ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
MTA Bridges and Tunnels
ⓘ
linked to:
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
|
| material |
concrete
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steel ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Whitestone neighborhood ⓘ |
| numberOfLanes | 6 ⓘ |
| opened | 1939-04-29 ⓘ |
| openedForEvent | 1939 New York World’s Fair ⓘ |
| openedInDecade | 1930s ⓘ |
| owner | Metropolitan Transportation Authority ⓘ |
| parallelStructure | Throgs Neck Bridge ⓘ |
| partOf |
Interstate 678
ⓘ
New York City arterial highway network ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Long Island
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| riverMouthProximity | near East River–Long Island Sound junction ⓘ |
| toll | yes ⓘ |
| tollCollection | open-road cashless tolling ⓘ |
| totalLength |
1148 m
ⓘ
3769 ft ⓘ |
| trafficType | motor vehicles ⓘ |
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: Whitestone Bridge Description of subject: The Whitestone Bridge is a major suspension bridge in New York City that connects the Bronx and Queens across the East River, serving as a key link between the city and Long Island.
Referenced by (48)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Othmar
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Long Island, New York, United States
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subject linked to:
East River (via Rikers Island)
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Long Island, New York
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Whitestone Parkway (largely replaced by Whitestone Expressway)
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Ammann
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