Cape Fear Memorial Bridge
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The Cape Fear Memorial Bridge is a steel vertical-lift bridge in Wilmington, North Carolina, serving as a key transportation link across the Cape Fear River.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cape Fear Memorial Bridge canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2869762 — 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: Cape Fear Memorial Bridge Context triple: [Cape Fear River, crossedBy, Cape Fear Memorial Bridge]
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A.
Delaware Memorial Bridge
The Delaware Memorial Bridge is a twin-span suspension bridge that carries Interstate 295 and U.S. Route 40 across the Delaware River, connecting Delaware and New Jersey.
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B.
Arland D. Williams Jr. Memorial Bridge
The Arland D. Williams Jr. Memorial Bridge is a Potomac River crossing in Washington, D.C., named in honor of an Air Florida Flight 90 crash hero and carrying traffic as part of the 14th Street Bridge complex.
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C.
Grenville Dodge Memorial Bridge
The Grenville Dodge Memorial Bridge is a major highway bridge in the Omaha–Council Bluffs area that carries Interstate 480 across the Missouri River between Nebraska and Iowa.
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D.
Veterans Memorial Bridge
Veterans Memorial Bridge is a major Ohio River crossing that connects Steubenville, Ohio, with Weirton, West Virginia, serving as a key regional transportation link.
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E.
Glenn L. Jackson Memorial Bridge
The Glenn L. Jackson Memorial Bridge is a major concrete segmental bridge carrying traffic across the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington as part of the Portland metropolitan highway system.
- 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: Cape Fear Memorial Bridge Target entity description: The Cape Fear Memorial Bridge is a steel vertical-lift bridge in Wilmington, North Carolina, serving as a key transportation link across the Cape Fear River.
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A.
Delaware Memorial Bridge
The Delaware Memorial Bridge is a twin-span suspension bridge that carries Interstate 295 and U.S. Route 40 across the Delaware River, connecting Delaware and New Jersey.
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B.
Arland D. Williams Jr. Memorial Bridge
The Arland D. Williams Jr. Memorial Bridge is a Potomac River crossing in Washington, D.C., named in honor of an Air Florida Flight 90 crash hero and carrying traffic as part of the 14th Street Bridge complex.
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C.
Grenville Dodge Memorial Bridge
The Grenville Dodge Memorial Bridge is a major highway bridge in the Omaha–Council Bluffs area that carries Interstate 480 across the Missouri River between Nebraska and Iowa.
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D.
Veterans Memorial Bridge
Veterans Memorial Bridge is a major Ohio River crossing that connects Steubenville, Ohio, with Weirton, West Virginia, serving as a key regional transportation link.
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E.
Glenn L. Jackson Memorial Bridge
The Glenn L. Jackson Memorial Bridge is a major concrete segmental bridge carrying traffic across the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington as part of the Portland metropolitan highway system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road bridge
ⓘ
steel bridge ⓘ vertical-lift bridge ⓘ |
| carries |
U.S. Route 17
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 421 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 76 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connects |
Brunswick County, North Carolina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
downtown Wilmington, North Carolina ⓘ |
| crosses | Cape Fear River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| function | vehicular traffic bridge ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Cape Fear River Memorial Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDesign | vertical-lift ⓘ |
| hasLiftSpan | yes ⓘ |
| hasMovableSpanType | vertical lift ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfLanes | 4 ⓘ |
| hasStructureType | through-truss vertical-lift bridge ⓘ |
| hasToll | no ⓘ |
| hasTrafficType | motor vehicles ⓘ |
| isMajorTransportLinkFor | Wilmington metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New Hanover County, North Carolina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Carolina ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Wilmington, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | North Carolina Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material | steel ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Cape Fear River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened | 1969 ⓘ |
| partOf | regional highway network of southeastern North Carolina ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic
ⓘ
freight transport ⓘ |
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: Cape Fear Memorial Bridge Description of subject: The Cape Fear Memorial Bridge is a steel vertical-lift bridge in Wilmington, North Carolina, serving as a key transportation link across the Cape Fear River.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.