The Floating Bridge
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The Floating Bridge is a chain ferry service that carries vehicles and pedestrians across the River Medina between East and West Cowes on the Isle of Wight.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Floating Bridge canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6546676 — 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: The Floating Bridge Context triple: [Cowes Floating Bridge, hasLocalName, The Floating Bridge]
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A.
Evergreen Point Floating Bridge
The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge is a major floating bridge in the Seattle area that carries State Route 520 across Lake Washington, connecting Seattle to its eastern suburbs.
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B.
Stone Bridge
Stone Bridge is a historic masonry bridge at Manassas National Battlefield Park that played a notable role in the American Civil War battles fought there.
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C.
Stone Bridge
Stone Bridge is a historic Ottoman-era bridge spanning the Vardar River in Skopje, North Macedonia, and is one of the city's most recognizable symbols.
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D.
Stone Bridge
Stone Bridge is a historic medieval stone bridge in Regensburg, Germany, renowned as an important example of 12th-century engineering and a key crossing over the Danube River.
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E.
Grand Bridge
The Grand Bridge is an imposing ornamental stone bridge and landscape feature within the grounds of Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, designed to enhance the estate’s grand Baroque setting.
- 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: The Floating Bridge Target entity description: The Floating Bridge is a chain ferry service that carries vehicles and pedestrians across the River Medina between East and West Cowes on the Isle of Wight.
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A.
Evergreen Point Floating Bridge
The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge is a major floating bridge in the Seattle area that carries State Route 520 across Lake Washington, connecting Seattle to its eastern suburbs.
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B.
Stone Bridge
Stone Bridge is a historic masonry bridge at Manassas National Battlefield Park that played a notable role in the American Civil War battles fought there.
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C.
Stone Bridge
Stone Bridge is a historic Ottoman-era bridge spanning the Vardar River in Skopje, North Macedonia, and is one of the city's most recognizable symbols.
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D.
Stone Bridge
Stone Bridge is a historic medieval stone bridge in Regensburg, Germany, renowned as an important example of 12th-century engineering and a key crossing over the Danube River.
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E.
Grand Bridge
The Grand Bridge is an imposing ornamental stone bridge and landscape feature within the grounds of Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, designed to enhance the estate’s grand Baroque setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
chain ferry service
ⓘ
pedestrian ferry ⓘ vehicular ferry ⓘ |
| connectsPlace |
East Cowes
ⓘ
West Cowes ⓘ |
| crosses | River Medina ⓘ |
| hasLocalName | Cowes Floating Bridge ⓘ |
| infrastructureType | ferry link ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedInCounty | Isle of Wight ⓘ |
| locatedOnIsland | Isle of Wight ⓘ |
| operatesBetween |
East Cowes, Isle of Wight
ⓘ
West Cowes, Isle of Wight ⓘ
linked to:
West Cowes
|
| operatesInTown |
Cowes
ⓘ
East Cowes ⓘ |
| primaryFunction | to carry vehicles and pedestrians across the River Medina ⓘ |
| region | South East England ⓘ |
| routeType | short-distance river crossing ⓘ |
| servesRiver | River Medina ⓘ |
| serviceType |
public transport
ⓘ
river crossing ⓘ |
| transports |
motor vehicles
ⓘ
pedestrians ⓘ |
| usesPropulsionType | chain propulsion ⓘ |
| waterway | River Medina ⓘ |
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: The Floating Bridge Description of subject: The Floating Bridge is a chain ferry service that carries vehicles and pedestrians across the River Medina between East and West Cowes on the Isle of Wight.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.