Interstate Bridge
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The Interstate Bridge is a pair of steel vertical-lift bridges carrying Interstate 5 across the Columbia River between Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Interstate Bridge canonical | 2 |
| Interstate 5 Bridge | 1 |
| Interstate 5 bridge over Green River | 1 |
| Interstate 5 crossing of the Columbia River | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2227744 — 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: Interstate Bridge Context triple: [Portland bridge system, hasPart, Interstate Bridge]
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A.
Theodore Roosevelt Bridge
The Theodore Roosevelt Bridge is a major highway bridge over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., carrying traffic between the city and Arlington, Virginia.
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B.
Astoria-Megler Bridge
The Astoria-Megler Bridge is a long steel cantilever bridge spanning the mouth of the Columbia River, connecting Astoria, Oregon, to Point Ellice near Megler, Washington.
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C.
Richmond–San Rafael Bridge
The Richmond–San Rafael Bridge is a major toll bridge in the San Francisco Bay Area that connects the cities of Richmond in the East Bay and San Rafael in Marin County.
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D.
Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge
The Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge is a major floating bridge in Washington State that carries Interstate 90 across Lake Washington between Seattle and Mercer Island.
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E.
Guadalupe Bridge
Guadalupe Bridge is a major road bridge in Metro Manila, Philippines, that carries EDSA across the Pasig River and serves as a key traffic artery in the city.
- 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: Interstate Bridge Target entity description: The Interstate Bridge is a pair of steel vertical-lift bridges carrying Interstate 5 across the Columbia River between Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington.
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A.
Theodore Roosevelt Bridge
The Theodore Roosevelt Bridge is a major highway bridge over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., carrying traffic between the city and Arlington, Virginia.
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B.
Astoria-Megler Bridge
The Astoria-Megler Bridge is a long steel cantilever bridge spanning the mouth of the Columbia River, connecting Astoria, Oregon, to Point Ellice near Megler, Washington.
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C.
Richmond–San Rafael Bridge
The Richmond–San Rafael Bridge is a major toll bridge in the San Francisco Bay Area that connects the cities of Richmond in the East Bay and San Rafael in Marin County.
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D.
Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge
The Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge is a major floating bridge in Washington State that carries Interstate 90 across Lake Washington between Seattle and Mercer Island.
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E.
Guadalupe Bridge
Guadalupe Bridge is a major road bridge in Metro Manila, Philippines, that carries EDSA across the Pasig River and serves as a key traffic artery in the city.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road bridge
ⓘ
steel bridge ⓘ vertical-lift bridge ⓘ |
| allows | passage of tall river vessels ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | I-5 Interstate Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| carries |
Interstate 5
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
bicycles ⓘ motor vehicles ⓘ pedestrians ⓘ |
| connects |
Portland, Oregon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vancouver, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crosses | Columbia River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crossesAt | Oregon–Washington border NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| design | vertical-lift ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
northbound span
ⓘ
southbound span ⓘ |
| hasFunction | regional transportation link ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance | early major highway crossing of the Columbia River ⓘ |
| hasIssue |
seismic vulnerability
ⓘ
traffic congestion ⓘ |
| hasLiftSpan | movable span for river navigation ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpans | two parallel spans ⓘ |
| hasTollStatus | former toll bridge ⓘ |
| hasTrafficDirection | one span for each direction of I-5 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Oregon
ⓘ
Pacific Northwest ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Washington (state)
|
| locatedNear |
Downtown Vancouver, Washington
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hayden Island, Portland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Oregon Department of Transportation
ⓘ
Washington State Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material | steel ⓘ |
| opened |
1917
ⓘ
1958 ⓘ |
| ownedBy | states of Oregon and Washington ⓘ |
| partOf | Interstate Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfCorridor | I-5 West Coast corridor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replaced | ferry service across the Columbia River at this location ⓘ |
| riverMile | approximately river mile 106 of the Columbia River ⓘ |
| serves |
Portland metropolitan area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vancouver urban area ⓘ |
| structureType | pair of parallel bridges ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Interstate Bridge Replacement Program 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: Interstate Bridge Description of subject: The Interstate Bridge is a pair of steel vertical-lift bridges carrying Interstate 5 across the Columbia River between Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Green River (Washington)
this entity surface form:
Interstate 5 bridge over Green River
U.S. Route 30 (via Columbia River crossings nearby)
→
hasMajorRiverCrossingNearby
→
Interstate Bridge
ⓘ
subject surface form:
U.S. Route 30
this entity surface form:
Interstate 5 Bridge
this entity surface form:
Interstate 5 crossing of the Columbia River