James River Bridge
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The James River Bridge is a major highway drawbridge in Virginia that carries U.S. Route 17 across the James River, connecting Newport News and Isle of Wight County.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James River Bridge canonical | 4 |
| US 17 James River Bridge | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3956741 — 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: James River Bridge Context triple: [James River, crossedBy, James River Bridge]
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A.
Moore’s Creek Bridge
Moore’s Creek Bridge is a historic Revolutionary War site in North Carolina, best known as the location of a pivotal 1776 Patriot victory over Loyalist forces.
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B.
High Bridge
High Bridge is a borough in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, known historically as a railroad town and now serving as the western endpoint of NJ Transit's Raritan Valley Line.
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C.
High Bridge
High Bridge is a historic aqueduct and pedestrian bridge in New York City that spans the Harlem River, connecting Manhattan and the Bronx.
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D.
High Bridge
High Bridge is a historic medieval stone bridge in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, notable as one of the oldest bridges in the United Kingdom still used by traffic and lined with buildings.
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E.
Forth Road Bridge
The Forth Road Bridge is a major suspension bridge in eastern Scotland that carries road traffic across the Firth of Forth, linking Edinburgh to Fife.
- 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: James River Bridge Target entity description: The James River Bridge is a major highway drawbridge in Virginia that carries U.S. Route 17 across the James River, connecting Newport News and Isle of Wight County.
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A.
Moore’s Creek Bridge
Moore’s Creek Bridge is a historic Revolutionary War site in North Carolina, best known as the location of a pivotal 1776 Patriot victory over Loyalist forces.
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B.
High Bridge
High Bridge is a borough in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, known historically as a railroad town and now serving as the western endpoint of NJ Transit's Raritan Valley Line.
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C.
High Bridge
High Bridge is a historic aqueduct and pedestrian bridge in New York City that spans the Harlem River, connecting Manhattan and the Bronx.
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D.
High Bridge
High Bridge is a historic medieval stone bridge in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, notable as one of the oldest bridges in the United Kingdom still used by traffic and lined with buildings.
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E.
Forth Road Bridge
The Forth Road Bridge is a major suspension bridge in eastern Scotland that carries road traffic across the Firth of Forth, linking Edinburgh to Fife.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drawbridge
ⓘ
highway bridge ⓘ road bridge ⓘ |
| carries | U.S. Route 17 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connects |
Isle of Wight County, Virginia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Newport News, Virginia ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crosses | James River ⓘ |
| crossesAt | lower James River ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
James River Bridge
ⓘ
surface form:
US 17 James River Bridge
|
| hasClearance | variable vertical clearance due to lift span ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
approach spans
ⓘ
movable span ⓘ |
| hasDesign | vertical-lift bridge ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
lift towers
ⓘ
navigation channel opening ⓘ |
| hasFunction | vehicular traffic crossing ⓘ |
| hasLanes | 4 ⓘ |
| hasTollStatus | former toll bridge ⓘ |
| hasTraffic | motor vehicles only ⓘ |
| isPartOfCorridor | north–south U.S. Route 17 corridor ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Virginia ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Mundys Point, Isle of Wight County
ⓘ
Port of Newport News ⓘ
surface form:
Newport News waterfront
|
| locatedOnRoute | U.S. Route 17 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Virginia Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| opened | 1928 ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Commonwealth of Virginia ⓘ |
| partOf |
United States Numbered Highway System
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Highway System
|
| reconstructed | 1980s ⓘ |
| region | Hampton Roads ⓘ |
| replaced | earlier ferry service across the James River ⓘ |
| roadType | limited-access highway ⓘ |
| serves | Hampton Roads metropolitan area ONNED1 ⓘ |
| structureMaterial |
concrete
ⓘ
steel ⓘ |
| usedFor |
freight transport
ⓘ
regional commuting ⓘ |
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: James River Bridge Description of subject: The James River Bridge is a major highway drawbridge in Virginia that carries U.S. Route 17 across the James River, connecting Newport News and Isle of Wight County.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
US 17 James River Bridge