Richard I. Bong Memorial Bridge
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The Richard I. Bong Memorial Bridge is a major highway bridge connecting Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin, named in honor of World War II flying ace Richard I. Bong.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard I. Bong Memorial Bridge canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8218618 — 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: Richard I. Bong Memorial Bridge Context triple: [Richard Bong, hasMemorial, Richard I. Bong Memorial Bridge]
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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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B.
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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C.
Veterans Memorial Bridge
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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D.
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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E.
Veterans Memorial Bridge
Veterans Memorial Bridge is a bascule drawbridge in Bay City, Michigan, that carries vehicular traffic across the Saginaw River.
- 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: Richard I. Bong Memorial Bridge Target entity description: The Richard I. Bong Memorial Bridge is a major highway bridge connecting Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin, named in honor of World War II flying ace Richard I. Bong.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Veterans Memorial Bridge
Veterans Memorial Bridge is a roadway bridge in Maine that carries traffic across the Fore River, connecting the cities of Portland and South Portland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bridge
ⓘ
highway bridge ⓘ |
| carries | U.S. Route 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connects |
Duluth, Minnesota
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Superior, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crosses |
Saint Louis Bay
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St. Louis River estuary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| function | road transport ⓘ |
| hasDeckType | road deck ⓘ |
| hasLanes | 4 ⓘ |
| hasName | Bong Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasType | girder bridge ⓘ |
| hasUse | motor vehicle traffic ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Duluth, Minnesota
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Minnesota ⓘ Superior, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Wisconsin ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Minnesota Department of Transportation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wisconsin Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Richard I. Bong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedFor |
Medal of Honor recipient Richard I. Bong
NERFINISHED
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World War II flying ace ⓘ |
| opened | 1985 ⓘ |
| parallelTo | John A. Blatnik Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Duluth–Superior Harbor
NERFINISHED
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U.S. Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed | Twin Ports NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replaced | Interstate 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: Richard I. Bong Memorial Bridge Description of subject: The Richard I. Bong Memorial Bridge is a major highway bridge connecting Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin, named in honor of World War II flying ace Richard I. Bong.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.