MacArthur Bridge (Burlington, Iowa)
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The MacArthur Bridge in Burlington, Iowa was a historic Mississippi River crossing that once carried U.S. Route 34 between Iowa and Illinois before being superseded by the modern Great River Bridge.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MacArthur Bridge (Burlington, Iowa) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9647505 — 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: MacArthur Bridge (Burlington, Iowa) Context triple: [Great River Bridge, replaced, MacArthur Bridge (Burlington, Iowa)]
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A.
I-80 bridge over Iowa River
The I-80 bridge over the Iowa River is a highway bridge in Iowa that carries Interstate 80 across the Iowa River as part of a major east–west transportation corridor in the United States.
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B.
I-380 bridge over Iowa River
The I-380 bridge over the Iowa River is a highway bridge in eastern Iowa that carries Interstate 380 across the Iowa River, serving as a key transportation link in the Cedar Rapids–Iowa City corridor.
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C.
Rock River bridge
Rock River bridge is a notable local bridge in Rock Rapids, Iowa, spanning the Rock River and serving as an important transportation and community landmark.
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D.
Main Street Bridge
Main Street Bridge is a prominent vehicular and pedestrian bridge in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas, spanning the Arkansas River and connecting Little Rock with North Little Rock.
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E.
Main Street Bridge
The Main Street Bridge is a prominent blue steel vertical-lift bridge in downtown Jacksonville, Florida, carrying traffic across the St. Johns River and serving as one of the city's most recognizable landmarks.
- 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: MacArthur Bridge (Burlington, Iowa) Target entity description: The MacArthur Bridge in Burlington, Iowa was a historic Mississippi River crossing that once carried U.S. Route 34 between Iowa and Illinois before being superseded by the modern Great River Bridge.
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A.
I-80 bridge over Iowa River
The I-80 bridge over the Iowa River is a highway bridge in Iowa that carries Interstate 80 across the Iowa River as part of a major east–west transportation corridor in the United States.
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B.
I-380 bridge over Iowa River
The I-380 bridge over the Iowa River is a highway bridge in eastern Iowa that carries Interstate 380 across the Iowa River, serving as a key transportation link in the Cedar Rapids–Iowa City corridor.
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C.
Rock River bridge
Rock River bridge is a notable local bridge in Rock Rapids, Iowa, spanning the Rock River and serving as an important transportation and community landmark.
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D.
Main Street Bridge
Main Street Bridge is a prominent vehicular and pedestrian bridge in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas, spanning the Arkansas River and connecting Little Rock with North Little Rock.
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E.
Main Street Bridge
The Main Street Bridge is a prominent blue steel vertical-lift bridge in downtown Jacksonville, Florida, carrying traffic across the St. Johns River and serving as one of the city's most recognizable landmarks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mississippi River bridge
ⓘ
road bridge ⓘ truss bridge ⓘ |
| carried |
U.S. Route 34
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
road traffic ⓘ |
| connects |
Illinois
ⓘ
Iowa ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| crosses | Mississippi River ⓘ |
| function | highway bridge ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Burlington, Iowa
ⓘ
Des Moines County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Great River Bridge ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Douglas MacArthur ⓘ |
| partOf |
U.S. Highway System
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Numbered Highway System
|
| precededBy | Great River Bridge ⓘ |
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Great River Bridge ⓘ |
| riverCrossingFor | U.S. Route 34 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | demolished ⓘ |
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: MacArthur Bridge (Burlington, Iowa) Description of subject: The MacArthur Bridge in Burlington, Iowa was a historic Mississippi River crossing that once carried U.S. Route 34 between Iowa and Illinois before being superseded by the modern Great River Bridge.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.