Canso Canal swing bridge
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The Canso Canal swing bridge is a movable bridge in Nova Scotia that carries road and rail traffic across the Canso Canal, allowing both land transportation and marine passage between the mainland and Cape Breton Island.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Canso Canal swing bridge canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6108765 — 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: Canso Canal swing bridge Context triple: [Canso Causeway, nearbyFeature, Canso Canal swing bridge]
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A.
Wasauksing Swing Bridge
The Wasauksing Swing Bridge is a movable bridge in Ontario, Canada that provides the primary road and rail access between Parry Island (home of the Wasauksing First Nation) and the mainland.
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B.
Burlington Canal Lift Bridge
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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C.
Swing Bridge
Swing Bridge is a historic movable road bridge in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, that spans the River Tyne and can rotate to allow ships to pass.
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D.
Swing Bridge
Swing Bridge is a historic manually operated swing bridge in Belize City that spans Haulover Creek and serves as a notable local landmark.
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E.
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.
- 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: Canso Canal swing bridge Target entity description: The Canso Canal swing bridge is a movable bridge in Nova Scotia that carries road and rail traffic across the Canso Canal, allowing both land transportation and marine passage between the mainland and Cape Breton Island.
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A.
Wasauksing Swing Bridge
The Wasauksing Swing Bridge is a movable bridge in Ontario, Canada that provides the primary road and rail access between Parry Island (home of the Wasauksing First Nation) and the mainland.
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B.
Burlington Canal Lift Bridge
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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C.
Swing Bridge
Swing Bridge is a historic manually operated swing bridge in Belize City that spans Haulover Creek and serves as a notable local landmark.
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D.
Swing Bridge
Swing Bridge is a historic movable road bridge in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, that spans the River Tyne and can rotate to allow ships to pass.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road-rail bridge
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swing bridge ⓘ |
| allows | marine passage through Canso Canal ⓘ |
| carries |
rail traffic
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road traffic ⓘ |
| connects |
Cape Breton Island
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mainland Nova Scotia ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| crosses | Canso Canal ⓘ |
| function | to allow both land transportation and marine navigation ⓘ |
| hasStructureType | swing-span ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Canada
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Nova Scotia ⓘ |
| partOf |
Canso Causeway transportation link
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linked to:
Canso Causeway
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| usedFor | inter-island transportation between mainland Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island ⓘ |
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: Canso Canal swing bridge Description of subject: The Canso Canal swing bridge is a movable bridge in Nova Scotia that carries road and rail traffic across the Canso Canal, allowing both land transportation and marine passage between the mainland and Cape Breton Island.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.