Port Mann Bridge
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The Port Mann Bridge is a major cable-stayed highway bridge in British Columbia, Canada, carrying traffic across the Fraser River as part of the Trans-Canada Highway near Vancouver.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Port Mann Bridge canonical | 2 |
| Port Mann/Highway 1 Improvement Project | 1 |
| original Port Mann Bridge | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1813648 — 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: Port Mann Bridge Context triple: [Fraser River, crossedBy, Port Mann Bridge]
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A.
West Gate Bridge
West Gate Bridge is a major steel box-girder road bridge in Melbourne, Australia, known for carrying heavy traffic between the city’s inner west and the central business district and for the tragic collapse during its construction in 1970.
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B.
Bay Bridge
The Bay Bridge is a major suspension bridge complex in the San Francisco Bay Area that connects San Francisco and Oakland across San Francisco Bay.
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C.
Yaquina Bay Bridge
The Yaquina Bay Bridge is an iconic 1930s Art Deco–style arch bridge on the Oregon coast, renowned for its elegant design and role as a key crossing on U.S. Route 101.
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D.
Carquinez Bridge
Carquinez Bridge is a major twin-span steel bridge in the San Francisco Bay Area that carries Interstate 80 across the Carquinez Strait between Crockett and Vallejo.
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E.
Humber Bay Arch Bridge
The Humber Bay Arch Bridge is a distinctive pedestrian and cyclist bridge in Toronto, Canada, known for its elegant twin-arch design spanning the mouth of the Humber River along the waterfront.
- 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: Port Mann Bridge Target entity description: The Port Mann Bridge is a major cable-stayed highway bridge in British Columbia, Canada, carrying traffic across the Fraser River as part of the Trans-Canada Highway near Vancouver.
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A.
West Gate Bridge
West Gate Bridge is a major steel box-girder road bridge in Melbourne, Australia, known for carrying heavy traffic between the city’s inner west and the central business district and for the tragic collapse during its construction in 1970.
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B.
Bay Bridge
The Bay Bridge is a major suspension bridge complex in the San Francisco Bay Area that connects San Francisco and Oakland across San Francisco Bay.
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C.
Yaquina Bay Bridge
The Yaquina Bay Bridge is an iconic 1930s Art Deco–style arch bridge on the Oregon coast, renowned for its elegant design and role as a key crossing on U.S. Route 101.
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D.
Carquinez Bridge
Carquinez Bridge is a major twin-span steel bridge in the San Francisco Bay Area that carries Interstate 80 across the Carquinez Strait between Crockett and Vallejo.
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E.
Humber Bay Arch Bridge
The Humber Bay Arch Bridge is a distinctive pedestrian and cyclist bridge in Toronto, Canada, known for its elegant twin-arch design spanning the mouth of the Humber River along the waterfront.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cable-stayed bridge
ⓘ
highway bridge ⓘ road bridge ⓘ |
| builder |
Flatiron
ⓘ
Kiewit Constructors ⓘ
surface form:
Kiewit
|
| carries |
British Columbia Highway 1
ⓘ
cyclists ⓘ motor vehicles ⓘ pedestrians ⓘ |
| connects |
Coquitlam
ⓘ
Surrey ⓘ |
| constructionCost | approximately 3.3 billion Canadian dollars ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 2009 ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| crosses | Fraser River ⓘ |
| design | cable-stayed ⓘ |
| directionalLanes | 5 lanes each direction ⓘ |
| engineeringFirm |
International Bridge Technologies
ⓘ
TY Lin International ⓘ |
| hasApproach |
Highway 1 Coquitlam approach
ⓘ
Highway 1 Surrey approach ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
HOV lanes
ⓘ
bus-on-shoulder lanes ⓘ multi-use path ⓘ |
| hasTollSystem | electronic tolling (former) ⓘ |
| laneCount | 10 ⓘ |
| locatedIn | British Columbia ⓘ |
| locatedInWaterBodyRegion | Lower Mainland ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Vancouver ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Fraser River crossing between Surrey and Coquitlam ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure
ⓘ
Transportation Investment Corporation ⓘ |
| notableFor | one of the widest cable-stayed bridges in the world at opening ⓘ |
| numberOfDecks | 2 ⓘ |
| opened | 2012-09-18 ⓘ |
| openedFullyCompletedConfiguration | 2015 ⓘ |
| openedReplacingStructureFrom | 1964 ⓘ |
| openedToTraffic | 2012 ⓘ |
| owner |
British Columbia
ⓘ
surface form:
Province of British Columbia
|
| partOf | Trans-Canada Highway ⓘ |
| previousStructureType | steel arch truss bridge ⓘ |
| projectName |
Port Mann Bridge
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Port Mann/Highway 1 Improvement Project
|
| province | British Columbia ⓘ |
| region |
Metro Vancouver, Canada
ⓘ
surface form:
Metro Vancouver
|
| replaced |
Port Mann Bridge
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
original Port Mann Bridge
|
| tollsRemovedOn | 2017-09-01 ⓘ |
| tollStatus | former toll bridge ⓘ |
| trafficType | vehicular 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: Port Mann Bridge Description of subject: The Port Mann Bridge is a major cable-stayed highway bridge in British Columbia, Canada, carrying traffic across the Fraser River as part of the Trans-Canada Highway near Vancouver.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
original Port Mann Bridge
this entity surface form:
Port Mann/Highway 1 Improvement Project