Thatcher Ferry Bridge
E678217
Thatcher Ferry Bridge is the former name of the Bridge of the Americas, a major highway bridge spanning the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal near Panama City.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thatcher Ferry Bridge canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6744250 — 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: Thatcher Ferry Bridge Context triple: [Bridge of the Americas, formerName, Thatcher Ferry Bridge]
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A.
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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B.
Alfords Point Bridge
Alfords Point Bridge is a major road bridge in southern Sydney, Australia, carrying traffic across the Georges River between the suburbs of Alfords Point and Menai.
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C.
Tudor City Bridge
Tudor City Bridge is an elevated pedestrian overpass in Midtown Manhattan that connects the Tudor City residential complex to the surrounding streets and offers notable views over 42nd Street and the East River.
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D.
Princess Margaret Bridge
Princess Margaret Bridge is a major road bridge spanning the Saint John River in Fredericton, New Brunswick, serving as a key transportation link for the city.
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E.
Stanton Street Bridge
The Stanton Street Bridge is an international bridge that carries vehicular and pedestrian traffic across the U.S.–Mexico border between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
- 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: Thatcher Ferry Bridge Target entity description: Thatcher Ferry Bridge is the former name of the Bridge of the Americas, a major highway bridge spanning the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal near Panama City.
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A.
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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B.
Alfords Point Bridge
Alfords Point Bridge is a major road bridge in southern Sydney, Australia, carrying traffic across the Georges River between the suburbs of Alfords Point and Menai.
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C.
Tudor City Bridge
Tudor City Bridge is an elevated pedestrian overpass in Midtown Manhattan that connects the Tudor City residential complex to the surrounding streets and offers notable views over 42nd Street and the East River.
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D.
Princess Margaret Bridge
Princess Margaret Bridge is a major road bridge spanning the Saint John River in Fredericton, New Brunswick, serving as a key transportation link for the city.
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E.
Stanton Street Bridge
The Stanton Street Bridge is an international bridge that carries vehicular and pedestrian traffic across the U.S.–Mexico border between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bridge
ⓘ
highway bridge ⓘ |
| connects |
North America
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Panama ⓘ |
| crosses | Panama Canal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | Bridge of the Americas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| function | vehicular traffic ⓘ |
| hasDesign | arch bridge ⓘ |
| heritage | important symbol of Pan-American connectivity ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Panama Canal Zone (historical) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location | Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Panamanian authorities ⓘ |
| material | steel ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Thatcher Ferry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | Panama City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened | 1962 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Inter-American Highway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pan-American Highway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Pacific side of the Isthmus of Panama ⓘ |
| renamedAs | Bridge of the Americas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replaced | ferry service across the Panama Canal ⓘ |
| significance | first permanent bridge across the Panama Canal at the Pacific side ⓘ |
| usedFor |
international road traffic
ⓘ
local road 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: Thatcher Ferry Bridge Description of subject: Thatcher Ferry Bridge is the former name of the Bridge of the Americas, a major highway bridge spanning the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal near Panama City.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.