University Bridge (nearby over connecting waterway)
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University Bridge is a bascule drawbridge in Seattle, Washington, carrying traffic between the University District and Eastlake across the Lake Union–Portage Bay waterway.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| University Bridge (nearby over connecting waterway) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6897188 — 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: University Bridge (nearby over connecting waterway) Context triple: [Portage Bay, crossedBy, University Bridge (nearby over connecting waterway)]
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A.
Trinity College Bridge
Trinity College Bridge is a historic stone footbridge in Cambridge, England, linking Trinity College’s grounds across the River Cam with the scenic area known as The Backs.
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B.
Bank Bridge
Bank Bridge is a small, ornate pedestrian suspension bridge in Saint Petersburg, Russia, famous for its distinctive griffin sculptures.
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C.
Tamar Bridge
Tamar Bridge is a major suspension bridge in southwest England that carries road traffic between Plymouth in Devon and Saltash in Cornwall across the River Tamar.
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D.
Highgate Middleway bridge
Highgate Middleway bridge is a road bridge in Birmingham, England, carrying the A4540 Middleway over the River Rea as part of the city’s inner ring road network.
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E.
Northern Spire Bridge
Northern Spire Bridge is a modern cable-stayed road bridge in Sunderland, England, spanning the River Wear as a key part of the city’s transport infrastructure.
- 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: University Bridge (nearby over connecting waterway) Target entity description: University Bridge is a bascule drawbridge in Seattle, Washington, carrying traffic between the University District and Eastlake across the Lake Union–Portage Bay waterway.
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A.
Trinity College Bridge
Trinity College Bridge is a historic stone footbridge in Cambridge, England, linking Trinity College’s grounds across the River Cam with the scenic area known as The Backs.
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B.
Bank Bridge
Bank Bridge is a small, ornate pedestrian suspension bridge in Saint Petersburg, Russia, famous for its distinctive griffin sculptures.
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C.
Tamar Bridge
Tamar Bridge is a major suspension bridge in southwest England that carries road traffic between Plymouth in Devon and Saltash in Cornwall across the River Tamar.
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D.
Highgate Middleway bridge
Highgate Middleway bridge is a road bridge in Birmingham, England, carrying the A4540 Middleway over the River Rea as part of the city’s inner ring road network.
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E.
Northern Spire Bridge
Northern Spire Bridge is a modern cable-stayed road bridge in Sunderland, England, spanning the River Wear as a key part of the city’s transport infrastructure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bascule bridge
ⓘ
road bridge ⓘ steel bridge ⓘ |
| allows | marine traffic passage when open ⓘ |
| carries |
bicycle traffic
ⓘ
motor vehicle traffic ⓘ pedestrian traffic ⓘ |
| connects |
Eastlake
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastlake neighborhood
University District ⓘ |
| crosses |
Lake Union–Portage Bay waterway
ⓘ
linked to:
Lake Washington Ship Canal
Portage Bay ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | University Bridge (Seattle) ⓘ |
| hasDesign | double-leaf bascule ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
counterweights
ⓘ
movable span ⓘ operator house ⓘ |
| hasFunction | urban traffic bridge ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Seattle’s bascule bridge system ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Seattle, Washington
ⓘ
linked to:
Seattle, Washington, United States
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Washington (state) ⓘ
linked to:
Washington
|
| maintainedBy | Seattle Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| near |
University of Washington Seattle campus
ⓘ
linked to:
University of Washington
|
| opened | 1919 ⓘ |
| partOf | Seattle city street network ⓘ |
| reconstructed | 1932 ⓘ |
| roadTypeOnBridge | city arterial ⓘ |
| spans |
Ship Canal (Seattle)
ⓘ
linked to:
Lake Washington Ship Canal
|
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: University Bridge (nearby over connecting waterway) Description of subject: University Bridge is a bascule drawbridge in Seattle, Washington, carrying traffic between the University District and Eastlake across the Lake Union–Portage Bay waterway.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.