Burlington Canal Lift Bridge
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The Burlington Canal Lift Bridge is a vertical-lift road and pedestrian bridge in Ontario, Canada, that spans the canal between Lake Ontario and Hamilton Harbour, allowing both vehicular traffic and the passage of large ships.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Burlington Canal Lift Bridge canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2257435 — 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: Burlington Canal Lift Bridge Context triple: [Hamilton Harbour, connectedBy, Burlington Canal Lift Bridge]
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A.
Sault Ste. Marie Canal Swing Bridge
The Sault Ste. Marie Canal Swing Bridge is a historic movable bridge in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, that carries road and rail traffic across the canal near the St. Marys River.
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B.
Rochester–Monaca Bridge
The Rochester–Monaca Bridge is a historic truss bridge spanning the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, connecting the towns of Rochester and Monaca.
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C.
Sagamore Bridge
Sagamore Bridge is a major highway bridge in Massachusetts that carries traffic over the Cape Cod Canal, serving as one of the primary gateways to Cape Cod.
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D.
Charles Berry Bascule Bridge
The Charles Berry Bascule Bridge is a historic movable drawbridge in Lorain, Ohio, known for carrying U.S. Route 6 over the Black River and serving as a prominent local landmark.
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E.
Albany–Rensselaer rail bridge
The Albany–Rensselaer rail bridge is a major railroad bridge in New York State that carries rail traffic between Albany and Rensselaer across the Hudson River.
- 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: Burlington Canal Lift Bridge Target entity description: The Burlington Canal Lift Bridge is a vertical-lift road and pedestrian bridge in Ontario, Canada, that spans the canal between Lake Ontario and Hamilton Harbour, allowing both vehicular traffic and the passage of large ships.
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A.
Sault Ste. Marie Canal Swing Bridge
The Sault Ste. Marie Canal Swing Bridge is a historic movable bridge in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, that carries road and rail traffic across the canal near the St. Marys River.
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B.
Rochester–Monaca Bridge
The Rochester–Monaca Bridge is a historic truss bridge spanning the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, connecting the towns of Rochester and Monaca.
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C.
Sagamore Bridge
Sagamore Bridge is a major highway bridge in Massachusetts that carries traffic over the Cape Cod Canal, serving as one of the primary gateways to Cape Cod.
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D.
Charles Berry Bascule Bridge
The Charles Berry Bascule Bridge is a historic movable drawbridge in Lorain, Ohio, known for carrying U.S. Route 6 over the Black River and serving as a prominent local landmark.
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E.
Albany–Rensselaer rail bridge
The Albany–Rensselaer rail bridge is a major railroad bridge in New York State that carries rail traffic between Albany and Rensselaer across the Hudson River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
pedestrian bridge
ⓘ
road bridge ⓘ vertical-lift bridge ⓘ |
| allows |
passage of large ships
ⓘ
pedestrian traffic ⓘ vehicular traffic ⓘ |
| bodyOfWater |
Hamilton Harbour
ⓘ
Lake Ontario ⓘ |
| category |
Bridges in Ontario
ⓘ
Road bridges in Canada ⓘ Transport in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area ⓘ Vertical lift bridges in Canada ⓘ |
| connects |
Burlington, Ontario
ⓘ
Hamilton Harbour shoreline ⓘ Hamilton, Ontario ⓘ
linked to:
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Lake Ontario shoreline ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| crosses | Burlington Canal ⓘ |
| function |
shipping access
ⓘ
transportation link ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
counterweights
ⓘ
lift span ⓘ pedestrian sidewalk ⓘ towers ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Burlington, Ontario
ⓘ
Hamilton, Ontario ⓘ
linked to:
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Ontario ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Hamilton Harbour
ⓘ
Lake Ontario ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Burlington Canal ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Government of Canada
ⓘ
linked to:
Canadian federal government (Ottawa)
Public Services and Procurement Canada ⓘ |
| near |
Burlington Beach
ⓘ
Burlington Skyway ⓘ |
| openingMechanism | vertical lift ⓘ |
| owner |
Government of Canada
ⓘ
linked to:
Canadian federal government (Ottawa)
|
| partOf | Burlington Canal ⓘ |
| region | Golden Horseshoe ⓘ |
| roadType | two-lane road ⓘ |
| spans | canal between Lake Ontario and Hamilton Harbour ⓘ |
| status | in use ⓘ |
| structureType | steel bridge ⓘ |
| trafficType |
pedestrian traffic
ⓘ
road traffic ⓘ |
| usage |
commercial shipping
ⓘ
local traffic ⓘ |
| waterway | Burlington 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: Burlington Canal Lift Bridge Description of subject: The Burlington Canal Lift Bridge is a vertical-lift road and pedestrian bridge in Ontario, Canada, that spans the canal between Lake Ontario and Hamilton Harbour, allowing both vehicular traffic and the passage of large ships.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.