Pattullo Bridge
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The Pattullo Bridge is a major road bridge in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, connecting the cities of New Westminster and Surrey across the Fraser River.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pattullo Bridge canonical | 2 |
| Fraser River Bridge (informal) | 1 |
| Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project | 1 |
| Pattullo Bridge replacement (under construction) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1813649 — 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: Pattullo Bridge Context triple: [Fraser River, crossedBy, Pattullo Bridge]
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A.
Salmon Weir Bridge
Salmon Weir Bridge is a notable bridge in Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland, best known for spanning the River Moy near its famous salmon fisheries.
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B.
Algonquin Bridge
Algonquin Bridge is a pedestrian bridge located on the Toronto Islands, providing a scenic crossing between parts of the island park system.
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C.
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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D.
Port Mann Bridge
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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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: Pattullo Bridge Target entity description: The Pattullo Bridge is a major road bridge in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, connecting the cities of New Westminster and Surrey across the Fraser River.
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A.
Salmon Weir Bridge
Salmon Weir Bridge is a notable bridge in Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland, best known for spanning the River Moy near its famous salmon fisheries.
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B.
Algonquin Bridge
Algonquin Bridge is a pedestrian bridge located on the Toronto Islands, providing a scenic crossing between parts of the island park system.
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C.
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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D.
Port Mann Bridge
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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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 (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cantilever bridge
ⓘ
road bridge ⓘ steel truss bridge ⓘ |
| carries |
four lanes of traffic
ⓘ
road traffic ⓘ |
| connects |
New Westminster
ⓘ
Surrey ⓘ |
| constructionStarted | 1936 ⓘ |
| crosses | Fraser River ⓘ |
| crossesAt | between New Westminster and Surrey ⓘ |
| designedAs | steel cantilever truss ⓘ |
| hasAlternative |
Alex Fraser Bridge
ⓘ
Port Mann Bridge ⓘ Queensborough Bridge ⓘ |
| hasBicycleAccess | yes ⓘ |
| hasDeckType | road deck ⓘ |
| hasFunction | vehicular crossing of Fraser River ⓘ |
| hasIssue |
narrow lanes
ⓘ
seismic vulnerability ⓘ structural aging ⓘ |
| hasLaneConfiguration | four undivided lanes ⓘ |
| hasLength | approximately 1227 metres ⓘ |
| hasMainSpanLength | approximately 366 metres ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpans | multiple ⓘ |
| hasPedestrianAccess | yes ⓘ |
| hasPlannedDemolition | yes ⓘ |
| hasSpeedLimit | 50 km/h ⓘ |
| hasToll | no ⓘ |
| hasType | through truss bridge ⓘ |
| isOneOf | major crossings of the Fraser River in Metro Vancouver ⓘ |
| isPartOfNetwork | regional road network of Metro Vancouver ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf |
Pattullo Bridge
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project
|
| locatedIn |
British Columbia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ Metro Vancouver, Canada ⓘ
surface form:
Metro Vancouver
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | TransLink ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Thomas Dufferin Pattullo ⓘ |
| opened |
1937
ⓘ
November 15, 1937 ⓘ |
| openedToTraffic | 1937 ⓘ |
| ownedBy | TransLink ⓘ |
| partOf |
British Columbia Highway 99
ⓘ
surface form:
British Columbia Highway 99A (historic designation)
Highway 1A (historic designation) ⓘ |
| precededBy | New Westminster Bridge (Fraser River Rail Bridge) as primary crossing ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
Pattullo Bridge
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Pattullo Bridge replacement (under construction)
|
| serves | commuters between Surrey and New Westminster ⓘ |
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: Pattullo Bridge Description of subject: The Pattullo Bridge is a major road bridge in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, connecting the cities of New Westminster and Surrey across the Fraser River.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Fraser River Bridge (informal)
this entity surface form:
Pattullo Bridge replacement (under construction)
this entity surface form:
Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project