Ballard Bridge
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Ballard Bridge is a historic bascule drawbridge in Seattle that carries traffic over the Lake Washington Ship Canal between the Ballard neighborhood and the rest of the city.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ballard Bridge canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6318107 — 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: Ballard Bridge Context triple: [Lake Washington Ship Canal, hasBridge, Ballard Bridge]
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A.
Brooks Bridge
Brooks Bridge is a highway bridge in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, that carries U.S. Route 98 over the Santa Rosa Sound, connecting the mainland to Okaloosa Island.
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B.
Clark Bridge
The Clark Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge over the Mississippi River that connects Alton, Illinois, to Missouri and serves as a prominent regional transportation landmark.
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C.
Hawthorne Bridge
Hawthorne Bridge is a historic truss bridge in Portland, Oregon, known as one of the city’s oldest and most heavily used river crossings.
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D.
Harris Bridge
Harris Bridge is a roadway bridge in Pune, India, serving as a key crossing over the Mula River and connecting important parts of the city.
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E.
Cavenagh Bridge
Cavenagh Bridge is one of Singapore’s oldest and best-preserved suspension bridges, spanning the Singapore River near Boat Quay and serving as a historic pedestrian crossing and landmark.
- 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: Ballard Bridge Target entity description: Ballard Bridge is a historic bascule drawbridge in Seattle that carries traffic over the Lake Washington Ship Canal between the Ballard neighborhood and the rest of the city.
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A.
Brooks Bridge
Brooks Bridge is a highway bridge in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, that carries U.S. Route 98 over the Santa Rosa Sound, connecting the mainland to Okaloosa Island.
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B.
Clark Bridge
The Clark Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge over the Mississippi River that connects Alton, Illinois, to Missouri and serves as a prominent regional transportation landmark.
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C.
Hawthorne Bridge
Hawthorne Bridge is a historic truss bridge in Portland, Oregon, known as one of the city’s oldest and most heavily used river crossings.
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D.
Harris Bridge
Harris Bridge is a roadway bridge in Pune, India, serving as a key crossing over the Mula River and connecting important parts of the city.
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E.
Cavenagh Bridge
Cavenagh Bridge is one of Singapore’s oldest and best-preserved suspension bridges, spanning the Singapore River near Boat Quay and serving as a historic pedestrian crossing and landmark.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bascule bridge
ⓘ
road bridge ⓘ |
| allows | ship canal navigation via drawspan openings ⓘ |
| carries |
bicycles
ⓘ
motor vehicles ⓘ pedestrians ⓘ road traffic ⓘ |
| connects |
Ballard neighborhood
ⓘ
Interbay area of Seattle ⓘ
linked to:
Northwest Seattle
|
| crosses |
Fremont Cut section of Lake Washington Ship Canal
ⓘ
linked to:
Lake Washington Ship Canal crossing system
Lake Washington Ship Canal ⓘ |
| hasApproximateLength | over 2,800 feet ⓘ |
| hasClearance | low fixed-span clearance requiring frequent openings ⓘ |
| hasDesign | double-leaf bascule ⓘ |
| hasDirection |
northbound lanes
ⓘ
southbound lanes ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
control towers
ⓘ
counterweights ⓘ movable span ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
maritime navigation clearance
ⓘ
vehicular crossing ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | historic structure in Seattle ⓘ |
| hasMaterial | steel ⓘ |
| hasOwner |
City of Seattle
ⓘ
linked to:
Seattle, Washington, United States
|
| hasTraffic | high daily vehicle volume ⓘ |
| hasType | double-leaf trunnion bascule bridge ⓘ |
| isImportantFor | connection between Ballard and rest of Seattle ⓘ |
| isOn |
15th Avenue West
ⓘ
State Route 99 (historic alignment) ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Lake Washington Ship Canal crossing system ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Seattle
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Washington ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Seattle Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| near | Ballard Locks ⓘ |
| opened | 1917 ⓘ |
| openedToTraffic | December 1917 ⓘ |
| partOf | Seattle transportation network ⓘ |
| replaced | earlier wooden bridge at same location ⓘ |
| serves |
Ballard neighborhood
ⓘ
downtown Seattle access ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic
ⓘ
freight 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: Ballard Bridge Description of subject: Ballard Bridge is a historic bascule drawbridge in Seattle that carries traffic over the Lake Washington Ship Canal between the Ballard neighborhood and the rest of the city.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.