Tees Transporter Bridge
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The Tees Transporter Bridge is an iconic early-20th-century transporter bridge in Middlesbrough, England, known for carrying vehicles and pedestrians across the river on a suspended gondola.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tees Transporter Bridge canonical | 2 |
| Tees Transporter Bridge (steelwork) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6484339 — 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: Tees Transporter Bridge Context triple: [River Tees, hasBridge, Tees Transporter Bridge]
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A.
Humber Bridge
The Humber Bridge is a major suspension bridge in England that spans the Humber Estuary, once among the world’s longest of its kind and a key regional transport link.
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B.
Whitby Swing Bridge
Whitby Swing Bridge is a historic movable bridge in Whitby, North Yorkshire, that spans the River Esk and opens to allow maritime traffic to pass between the town’s upper and lower harbours.
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C.
Mersey Gateway Bridge
The Mersey Gateway Bridge is a modern six-lane toll bridge in northwest England that carries road traffic across the River Mersey between Runcorn and Widnes.
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D.
Forth Bridge
The Forth Bridge is a historic cantilever railway bridge in Scotland, renowned as an iconic feat of Victorian engineering and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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E.
Bowen Bridge
Bowen Bridge is a major concrete highway bridge in Hobart, Tasmania, carrying traffic across the Derwent River as part of the city’s northern transport corridor.
- 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: Tees Transporter Bridge Target entity description: The Tees Transporter Bridge is an iconic early-20th-century transporter bridge in Middlesbrough, England, known for carrying vehicles and pedestrians across the river on a suspended gondola.
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A.
Humber Bridge
The Humber Bridge is a major suspension bridge in England that spans the Humber Estuary, once among the world’s longest of its kind and a key regional transport link.
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B.
Whitby Swing Bridge
Whitby Swing Bridge is a historic movable bridge in Whitby, North Yorkshire, that spans the River Esk and opens to allow maritime traffic to pass between the town’s upper and lower harbours.
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C.
Mersey Gateway Bridge
The Mersey Gateway Bridge is a modern six-lane toll bridge in northwest England that carries road traffic across the River Mersey between Runcorn and Widnes.
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D.
Forth Bridge
The Forth Bridge is a historic cantilever railway bridge in Scotland, renowned as an iconic feat of Victorian engineering and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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E.
Bowen Bridge
Bowen Bridge is a major concrete highway bridge in Hobart, Tasmania, carrying traffic across the Derwent River as part of the city’s northern transport corridor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
landmark
ⓘ
road bridge ⓘ transporter bridge ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builder | Sir William Arrol & Co. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| carries |
cyclists
ⓘ
pedestrians ⓘ road traffic ⓘ |
| clearanceBelow | 49 metres ⓘ |
| connects |
Middlesbrough
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Port Clarence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1909 ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crosses | River Tees NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designedBy |
G. C. Imbault
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
S. A. Mathews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| engineer | Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuredIn | BBC television programmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gondolaCapacity |
200 people
ⓘ
9 cars ⓘ |
| hasComponent | suspended gondola ⓘ |
| hasLift | yes ⓘ |
| hasLighting | architectural illumination ⓘ |
| hasToll | historically yes ⓘ |
| height | 68 metres ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationDate | 1988 ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | Grade II* listed building ⓘ |
| isOneOf | world's few remaining transporter bridges ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
Middlesbrough NERFINISHED ⓘ North Yorkshire ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| mainSpan | 176 metres ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Middlesbrough Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material | steel ⓘ |
| officialName | Tees Transporter Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openedBy | Prince Arthur of Connaught NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openingCeremonyDate | 1911-10-17 ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1911-10-17 ⓘ |
| owner | Middlesbrough Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | North East England ⓘ |
| river | River Tees NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | operational with periodic closures for maintenance ⓘ |
| symbolOf | Middlesbrough's industrial heritage ⓘ |
| totalLength | 259 metres ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic
ⓘ
industrial transport ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
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: Tees Transporter Bridge Description of subject: The Tees Transporter Bridge is an iconic early-20th-century transporter bridge in Middlesbrough, England, known for carrying vehicles and pedestrians across the river on a suspended gondola.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tees Transporter Bridge (steelwork)