Thousand Islands Bridge
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The Thousand Islands Bridge is an international bridge system connecting northern New York in the United States with southeastern Ontario in Canada across the St. Lawrence River amid the Thousand Islands region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thousand Islands Bridge canonical | 3 |
| Thousand Islands International Bridge | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7630189 — 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: Thousand Islands Bridge Context triple: [Thousand Islands, crossedBy, Thousand Islands Bridge]
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A.
Seaway International Bridge
The Seaway International Bridge is a bi-national crossing over the St. Lawrence River that connects Cornwall, Ontario, with New York State, facilitating road traffic between Canada and the United States.
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B.
Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge
The Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge is a major steel bridge that connects Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada with Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, USA, serving as an important cross-border transportation link.
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C.
Algonquin Bridge
Algonquin Bridge is a pedestrian bridge located on the Toronto Islands, providing a scenic crossing between parts of the island park system.
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D.
Ogdensburg–Prescott International Bridge
The Ogdensburg–Prescott International Bridge is a steel truss bridge spanning the Saint Lawrence River that connects Ogdensburg, New York, in the United States with Johnstown–Prescott, Ontario, in Canada.
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E.
Queenston-Lewiston Bridge
The Queenston-Lewiston Bridge is an international arch bridge and major border crossing over the Niagara River, connecting Ontario, Canada, and New York, United States.
- 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: Thousand Islands Bridge Target entity description: The Thousand Islands Bridge is an international bridge system connecting northern New York in the United States with southeastern Ontario in Canada across the St. Lawrence River amid the Thousand Islands region.
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A.
Seaway International Bridge
The Seaway International Bridge is a bi-national crossing over the St. Lawrence River that connects Cornwall, Ontario, with New York State, facilitating road traffic between Canada and the United States.
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B.
Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge
The Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge is a major steel bridge that connects Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada with Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, USA, serving as an important cross-border transportation link.
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C.
Algonquin Bridge
Algonquin Bridge is a pedestrian bridge located on the Toronto Islands, providing a scenic crossing between parts of the island park system.
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D.
Ogdensburg–Prescott International Bridge
The Ogdensburg–Prescott International Bridge is a steel truss bridge spanning the Saint Lawrence River that connects Ogdensburg, New York, in the United States with Johnstown–Prescott, Ontario, in Canada.
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E.
Queenston-Lewiston Bridge
The Queenston-Lewiston Bridge is an international arch bridge and major border crossing over the Niagara River, connecting Ontario, Canada, and New York, United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bridge system
ⓘ
international bridge ⓘ road bridge ⓘ |
| borderCrossingType | land border crossing ⓘ |
| carries |
motor vehicles
ⓘ
road traffic ⓘ |
| connects |
Canada
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructionBegan | 1937 ⓘ |
| country |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crosses |
International Rift
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St. Lawrence River NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Lawrence Seaway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designedBy | J. E. Greiner Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanes | 2 ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpans | 5 ⓘ |
| hasOfficialName | Thousand Islands International Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
arch bridge
ⓘ
suspension bridge ⓘ truss bridge ⓘ |
| hasTollFor |
automobiles
ⓘ
trucks ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Thousand Islands region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
northern New York ⓘ southeastern Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Alexandria Bay
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gananoque NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Thousand Islands Bridge Authority NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officiallyOpenedBy | Franklin D. Roosevelt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened | 1938 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Canada–United States border crossings
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Highway 137 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 81 NERFINISHED ⓘ New York State Route 955C NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Hill Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wellesley Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Thousand Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadType | two-lane highway ⓘ |
| spans | United States–Canada border NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| toll | yes ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial transport
ⓘ
cross-border travel ⓘ tourism access ⓘ |
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: Thousand Islands Bridge Description of subject: The Thousand Islands Bridge is an international bridge system connecting northern New York in the United States with southeastern Ontario in Canada across the St. Lawrence River amid the Thousand Islands region.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Thousand Islands
this entity surface form:
Thousand Islands International Bridge