Veterans Memorial Bridge
E818301
Veterans Memorial Bridge is a roadway bridge in Maine that carries traffic across the Fore River, connecting the cities of Portland and South Portland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Veterans Memorial Bridge canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7021691 — 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: Veterans Memorial Bridge Context triple: [Fore River (Maine), hasBridge, Veterans Memorial Bridge]
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A.
Veterans Memorial Bridge
Veterans Memorial Bridge is a major Ohio River crossing that connects Steubenville, Ohio, with Weirton, West Virginia, serving as a key regional transportation link.
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B.
Veterans Memorial Bridge
Veterans Memorial Bridge is a bascule drawbridge in Bay City, Michigan, that carries vehicular traffic across the Saginaw River.
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C.
William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridge
The William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridge, commonly known as the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, is a major dual-span toll bridge in Maryland that carries U.S. Route 50/301 across the Chesapeake Bay, linking Maryland’s eastern and western shores.
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D.
Glenn L. Jackson Memorial Bridge
The Glenn L. Jackson Memorial Bridge is a major concrete segmental bridge carrying traffic across the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington as part of the Portland metropolitan highway system.
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E.
Grenville Dodge Memorial Bridge
The Grenville Dodge Memorial Bridge is a major highway bridge in the Omaha–Council Bluffs area that carries Interstate 480 across the Missouri River between Nebraska and Iowa.
- 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: Veterans Memorial Bridge Target entity description: Veterans Memorial Bridge is a roadway bridge in Maine that carries traffic across the Fore River, connecting the cities of Portland and South Portland.
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A.
Veterans Memorial Bridge
Veterans Memorial Bridge is a major Ohio River crossing that connects Steubenville, Ohio, with Weirton, West Virginia, serving as a key regional transportation link.
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B.
Veterans Memorial Bridge
Veterans Memorial Bridge is a bascule drawbridge in Bay City, Michigan, that carries vehicular traffic across the Saginaw River.
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C.
William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridge
The William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridge, commonly known as the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, is a major dual-span toll bridge in Maryland that carries U.S. Route 50/301 across the Chesapeake Bay, linking Maryland’s eastern and western shores.
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D.
Glenn L. Jackson Memorial Bridge
The Glenn L. Jackson Memorial Bridge is a major concrete segmental bridge carrying traffic across the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington as part of the Portland metropolitan highway system.
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E.
Grenville Dodge Memorial Bridge
The Grenville Dodge Memorial Bridge is a major highway bridge in the Omaha–Council Bluffs area that carries Interstate 480 across the Missouri River between Nebraska and Iowa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
highway bridge
ⓘ
road bridge ⓘ |
| carries |
State Route 9
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ road traffic ⓘ |
| connects |
Portland, Maine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South Portland, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crosses | Fore River (Maine) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crossesNear |
Portland waterfront
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South Portland waterfront NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasApproach |
Portland approach
ⓘ
South Portland approach ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
river crossing
ⓘ
transportation ⓘ |
| hasName | Veterans Memorial Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasToll | no ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cumberland County, Maine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| maintainedBy | Maine Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| namedAfter | military veterans ⓘ |
| partOf | regional road network of Greater Portland ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial traffic
ⓘ
commuter traffic ⓘ local 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: Veterans Memorial Bridge Description of subject: Veterans Memorial Bridge is a roadway bridge in Maine that carries traffic across the Fore River, connecting the cities of Portland and South Portland.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.