Horsa Bridge
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Horsa Bridge is the World War II Normandy crossing over the Caen Canal famously seized by British airborne forces during the glider-borne Operation Deadstick on D-Day.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Horsa Bridge canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16950863 — 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: Horsa Bridge Context triple: [Operation Deadstick, bridgeCaptured, Horsa Bridge]
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A.
Bailey bridge
A Bailey bridge is a portable, pre-fabricated truss bridge system widely used in military and emergency engineering for quickly constructing temporary crossings.
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B.
Grenadersky Bridge
Grenadersky Bridge is a road bridge in Saint Petersburg, Russia, spanning the Bolshaya Nevka River and connecting key parts of the city’s Petrogradsky District.
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C.
Ludendorff Bridge
The Ludendorff Bridge was a strategically vital World War II railway bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany, whose unexpected capture by Allied forces in 1945 significantly hastened the end of the war in Europe.
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D.
Bastei Bridge
Bastei Bridge is a famous stone bridge and scenic lookout spanning dramatic sandstone rock formations above the Elbe River in Saxon Switzerland, Germany.
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E.
Deritend bridge
Deritend Bridge is a historic road bridge in Birmingham, England, carrying traffic over the River Rea near the city’s Digbeth and Deritend districts.
- 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: Horsa Bridge Target entity description: Horsa Bridge is the World War II Normandy crossing over the Caen Canal famously seized by British airborne forces during the glider-borne Operation Deadstick on D-Day.
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A.
Bailey bridge
A Bailey bridge is a portable, pre-fabricated truss bridge system widely used in military and emergency engineering for quickly constructing temporary crossings.
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B.
Grenadersky Bridge
Grenadersky Bridge is a road bridge in Saint Petersburg, Russia, spanning the Bolshaya Nevka River and connecting key parts of the city’s Petrogradsky District.
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C.
Ludendorff Bridge
The Ludendorff Bridge was a strategically vital World War II railway bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany, whose unexpected capture by Allied forces in 1945 significantly hastened the end of the war in Europe.
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D.
Bastei Bridge
Bastei Bridge is a famous stone bridge and scenic lookout spanning dramatic sandstone rock formations above the Elbe River in Saxon Switzerland, Germany.
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E.
Deritend bridge
Deritend Bridge is a historic road bridge in Birmingham, England, carrying traffic over the River Rea near the city’s Digbeth and Deritend districts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.