Queensferry Crossing
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Queensferry Crossing is a major cable-stayed road bridge in Scotland that spans the Firth of Forth, connecting Edinburgh to Fife and serving as a key part of the country’s transport infrastructure.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Queensferry Crossing canonical | 23 |
| Queensferry narrows | 2 |
| Forth Bridges | 1 |
| Queensferry Crossing road scheme | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T528995 — 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: Queensferry Crossing Context triple: [North Queensferry, hasLandmark, Queensferry Crossing]
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A.
Prince of Wales Bridge
The Prince of Wales Bridge is a major road bridge spanning the River Severn between England and Wales, carrying the M4 motorway as a key cross-border transport link.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Dumbarton Bridge
The Dumbarton Bridge is a major vehicular bridge in the San Francisco Bay Area that provides a key east–west crossing between the Peninsula and the East Bay.
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E.
Severn Bridge
Severn Bridge is a major suspension bridge in the United Kingdom that spans the River Severn and connects England with South Wales.
- 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: Queensferry Crossing Target entity description: Queensferry Crossing is a major cable-stayed road bridge in Scotland that spans the Firth of Forth, connecting Edinburgh to Fife and serving as a key part of the country’s transport infrastructure.
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A.
Prince of Wales Bridge
The Prince of Wales Bridge is a major road bridge spanning the River Severn between England and Wales, carrying the M4 motorway as a key cross-border transport link.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Dumbarton Bridge
The Dumbarton Bridge is a major vehicular bridge in the San Francisco Bay Area that provides a key east–west crossing between the Peninsula and the East Bay.
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E.
Severn Bridge
Severn Bridge is a major suspension bridge in the United Kingdom that spans the River Severn and connects England with South Wales.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bridge in Scotland
ⓘ
cable-stayed bridge ⓘ road bridge ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Forth Road Bridge
ⓘ
surface form:
New Forth Crossing
Queensferry Bridge project during planning ⓘ |
| carries | motorway traffic ⓘ |
| connects |
Edinburgh
ⓘ
Fife ⓘ |
| constructionEnd | 2017 ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 2011 ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| crosses | Firth of Forth ⓘ |
| crossingOf | Forth estuary ⓘ |
| design | cable-stayed ⓘ |
| doesNotCarry |
cyclists
ⓘ
pedestrians ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
multi-span cable-stayed design
ⓘ
wind-shielding on deck edges ⓘ |
| latitude | approximately 56.0°N ⓘ |
| locatedInBodyOfWater | Firth of Forth ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
North Queensferry
ⓘ
South Queensferry ⓘ |
| longitude | approximately 3.4°W ⓘ |
| mainSpanLength | about 650 metres ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Transport Scotland ⓘ |
| material |
concrete
ⓘ
steel ⓘ |
| near |
Forth Bridge
ⓘ
surface form:
Forth Bridge (railway)
|
| notableFor | being one of the longest three-tower cable-stayed bridges in the world ⓘ |
| numberOfLanes | 3 lanes each direction ⓘ |
| numberOfMainTowers | 3 ⓘ |
| officiallyOpened | 2017-09-04 ⓘ |
| officiallyOpenedBy |
Elizabeth II
ⓘ
surface form:
Queen Elizabeth II
|
| openedFor | motor vehicles only ⓘ |
| openedToTraffic | 2017-08-30 ⓘ |
| owner | Scottish Government ⓘ |
| parallelTo | Forth Road Bridge ⓘ |
| partOf |
Forth bridges
ⓘ
surface form:
Forth crossings
Scotland’s trunk road network ⓘ |
| projectCost | about £1.35 billion ⓘ |
| purpose | improve reliability of cross-Forth road transport ⓘ |
| region |
Fife
ⓘ
Lothian ⓘ |
| replacedFunctionOf | Forth Road Bridge for general traffic ⓘ |
| replaces | Forth Road Bridge as main motorway crossing ⓘ |
| roadCarried | M90 motorway ⓘ |
| toll | no ⓘ |
| totalLength | about 2700 metres ⓘ |
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: Queensferry Crossing Description of subject: Queensferry Crossing is a major cable-stayed road bridge in Scotland that spans the Firth of Forth, connecting Edinburgh to Fife and serving as a key part of the country’s transport infrastructure.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Queensferry narrows
this entity surface form:
Queensferry Crossing road scheme
this entity surface form:
Queensferry narrows
this entity surface form:
Forth Bridges