Lafayette Avenue Bridge
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The Lafayette Avenue Bridge is a bascule drawbridge in Bay City, Michigan, that carries Lafayette Avenue across the Saginaw River and serves as a key local transportation link.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lafayette Avenue Bridge canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3424029 — 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: Lafayette Avenue Bridge Context triple: [Saginaw River, hasBridge, Lafayette Avenue Bridge]
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A.
Willis Avenue Bridge
The Willis Avenue Bridge is a swing bridge in New York City that carries traffic between Manhattan and the Bronx.
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B.
Monroe Street Bridge
Monroe Street Bridge is a historic concrete arch bridge spanning the Spokane River in downtown Spokane, Washington, known for its distinctive architecture and scenic views.
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C.
Van Buren Street Bridge
The Van Buren Street Bridge is a historic movable bridge in Corvallis, Oregon, carrying traffic across the Willamette River near the Oregon State University campus.
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D.
Warren Avenue Bridge
The Warren Avenue Bridge is a significant roadway bridge in Bremerton, Washington, carrying traffic across the Port Washington Narrows and connecting key parts of the city.
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E.
Northern Avenue Bridge
The Northern Avenue Bridge is a historic steel truss bridge in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its former role carrying traffic across the Fort Point Channel between downtown and the Seaport District.
- 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: Lafayette Avenue Bridge Target entity description: The Lafayette Avenue Bridge is a bascule drawbridge in Bay City, Michigan, that carries Lafayette Avenue across the Saginaw River and serves as a key local transportation link.
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A.
Willis Avenue Bridge
The Willis Avenue Bridge is a swing bridge in New York City that carries traffic between Manhattan and the Bronx.
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B.
Monroe Street Bridge
Monroe Street Bridge is a historic concrete arch bridge spanning the Spokane River in downtown Spokane, Washington, known for its distinctive architecture and scenic views.
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C.
Van Buren Street Bridge
The Van Buren Street Bridge is a historic movable bridge in Corvallis, Oregon, carrying traffic across the Willamette River near the Oregon State University campus.
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D.
Warren Avenue Bridge
The Warren Avenue Bridge is a significant roadway bridge in Bremerton, Washington, carrying traffic across the Port Washington Narrows and connecting key parts of the city.
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E.
Northern Avenue Bridge
The Northern Avenue Bridge is a historic steel truss bridge in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its former role carrying traffic across the Fort Point Channel between downtown and the Seaport District.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bascule bridge
ⓘ
road bridge ⓘ |
| allows | river navigation on Saginaw River ⓘ |
| carries | Lafayette Avenue ⓘ |
| crosses | Saginaw River ⓘ |
| crossesAt | Bay City downtown area ⓘ |
| function | local transportation link ⓘ |
| hasDeckType | roadway deck ⓘ |
| hasMovableSpanType | bascule ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | Lafayette Avenue ⓘ |
| hasOpeningMechanism | counterweight bascule ⓘ |
| hasRegionServed |
Bay City east side
ⓘ
Bay City west side ⓘ |
| hasStructureType | steel bridge ⓘ |
| hasTrafficRole | key local transportation link ⓘ |
| 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 | Michigan Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf | local street network of Bay City ⓘ |
| roadType | urban arterial ⓘ |
| usedFor |
motor vehicle traffic
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pedestrian traffic ⓘ |
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: Lafayette Avenue Bridge Description of subject: The Lafayette Avenue Bridge is a bascule drawbridge in Bay City, Michigan, that carries Lafayette Avenue across the Saginaw River and serves as a key local transportation link.
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