Veterans Memorial Bridge
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Veterans Memorial Bridge is a bascule drawbridge in Bay City, Michigan, that carries vehicular traffic across the Saginaw River.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Veterans Memorial Bridge canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3424027 — 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: Veterans Memorial Bridge Context triple: [Saginaw River, hasBridge, Veterans Memorial Bridge]
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A.
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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B.
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.
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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.
Maurice J. Tobin Memorial Bridge
The Maurice J. Tobin Memorial Bridge is a major steel cantilever bridge in Boston, Massachusetts, carrying U.S. Route 1 over the Mystic River between Charlestown and Chelsea.
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E.
Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge
The Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge is a major floating bridge in Washington State that carries Interstate 90 across Lake Washington, connecting Seattle to its eastern suburbs.
- 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: Veterans Memorial Bridge Target entity description: Veterans Memorial Bridge is a bascule drawbridge in Bay City, Michigan, that carries vehicular traffic across the Saginaw River.
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A.
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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B.
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.
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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.
Maurice J. Tobin Memorial Bridge
The Maurice J. Tobin Memorial Bridge is a major steel cantilever bridge in Boston, Massachusetts, carrying U.S. Route 1 over the Mystic River between Charlestown and Chelsea.
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E.
Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge
The Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge is a major floating bridge in Washington State that carries Interstate 90 across Lake Washington, connecting Seattle to its eastern suburbs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bascule bridge
ⓘ
road bridge ⓘ |
| carries | vehicular traffic ⓘ |
| connects |
east side of Bay City, Michigan
ⓘ
west side of Bay City, Michigan ⓘ |
| crosses |
Saginaw River
ⓘ
navigable channel of the Saginaw River ⓘ |
| function | to provide a road crossing over the Saginaw River ⓘ |
| hasConstructionMaterial |
concrete
ⓘ
steel ⓘ |
| hasDeckType | roadway deck ⓘ |
| hasLighting | street lighting along roadway ⓘ |
| hasLocale |
downtown Bay City, Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Bay City, Michigan, United States
|
| hasMovableSpanType | bascule ⓘ |
| hasNavigationClearance | movable span allows passage of large vessels ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfLanes | 4 ⓘ |
| hasOfficialName | Veterans Memorial Bridge ⓘ |
| hasOpeningMechanism | double-leaf bascule ⓘ |
| hasRiverCrossingType | movable bridge ⓘ |
| hasSidewalk | pedestrian sidewalks ⓘ |
| hasToll | no ⓘ |
| hasTrafficType | motor vehicles ⓘ |
| hasUsage |
commuter traffic
ⓘ
local traffic ⓘ |
| isInMetropolitanArea | Bay City metropolitan area ⓘ |
| isOn |
M-25 (state trunkline highway)
ⓘ
M-84 (state trunkline highway) ⓘ |
| isOneOf | major bridges over the Saginaw River in Bay City ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bay City, Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Bay City
Bay County, Michigan ⓘ Michigan ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| maintainedBy |
City of Bay City
ⓘ
linked to:
Bay City
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| namedFor | military veterans ⓘ |
| opened | 1976 ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
City of Bay City, Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Bay City, Michigan, United States
|
| partOf | road transportation infrastructure of Bay City, Michigan ⓘ |
| replaced | Third Street Bridge ⓘ |
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: Veterans Memorial Bridge Description of subject: Veterans Memorial Bridge is a bascule drawbridge in Bay City, Michigan, that carries vehicular traffic across the Saginaw River.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Bay City, Michigan, United States