Duke Ellington Bridge
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The Duke Ellington Bridge is a historic arched bridge in Washington, D.C., known for carrying traffic over Rock Creek Park and honoring the famed jazz musician and composer Duke Ellington.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Duke Ellington Bridge canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7707231 — 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: Duke Ellington Bridge Context triple: [Calvert Street NW, crossesVia, Duke Ellington Bridge]
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A.
John Philip Sousa Bridge
The John Philip Sousa Bridge is a major roadway bridge in Washington, D.C., carrying traffic across the Anacostia River and named in honor of the famous American composer and bandleader John Philip Sousa.
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B.
Friday Bridge
Friday Bridge is a small village in Cambridgeshire, England, known for its rural character and location near the town of Wisbech.
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C.
Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge
The Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge is a major vehicular and pedestrian bridge in Washington, D.C., named in honor of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and serving as a key gateway into the city.
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D.
M Street Bridge
The M Street Bridge was a former Sacramento River crossing in California that preceded and was ultimately replaced by the iconic Tower Bridge.
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E.
Rochambeau Memorial Bridge
The Rochambeau Memorial Bridge is a major highway bridge carrying Interstate 395 across the Potomac River into Washington, D.C.
- 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: Duke Ellington Bridge Target entity description: The Duke Ellington Bridge is a historic arched bridge in Washington, D.C., known for carrying traffic over Rock Creek Park and honoring the famed jazz musician and composer Duke Ellington.
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A.
John Philip Sousa Bridge
The John Philip Sousa Bridge is a major roadway bridge in Washington, D.C., carrying traffic across the Anacostia River and named in honor of the famous American composer and bandleader John Philip Sousa.
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B.
Friday Bridge
Friday Bridge is a small village in Cambridgeshire, England, known for its rural character and location near the town of Wisbech.
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C.
Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge
The Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge is a major vehicular and pedestrian bridge in Washington, D.C., named in honor of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and serving as a key gateway into the city.
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D.
M Street Bridge
The M Street Bridge was a former Sacramento River crossing in California that preceded and was ultimately replaced by the iconic Tower Bridge.
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E.
Rochambeau Memorial Bridge
The Rochambeau Memorial Bridge is a major highway bridge carrying Interstate 395 across the Potomac River into Washington, D.C.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
arch bridge
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road bridge ⓘ |
| carries | Calvert Street NW NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connects |
Adams Morgan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Woodley Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crosses |
Rock Creek
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rock Creek Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Calvert Street Bridge (informal) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDesign | open-spandrel arch ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
decorative balustrades
ⓘ
ornamental lampposts ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
pedestrian traffic
ⓘ
vehicular traffic ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | historic structure ⓘ |
| hasLocale | Northwest Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpans | 3 ⓘ |
| honors | Duke Ellington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | District of Columbia Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material | concrete ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Duke Ellington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfterOccupation |
composer
ⓘ
jazz musician ⓘ |
| opened | 1935 ⓘ |
| partOf | Rock Creek Park Historic District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replaced | Calvert Street Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Duke Ellington Bridge Description of subject: The Duke Ellington Bridge is a historic arched bridge in Washington, D.C., known for carrying traffic over Rock Creek Park and honoring the famed jazz musician and composer Duke Ellington.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.