North Bridge, Edinburgh
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North Bridge in Edinburgh is a prominent road bridge in the city centre that links the Old Town and New Town across Waverley Station.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| North Bridge, Edinburgh canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8806985 — 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: North Bridge, Edinburgh Context triple: [New Register House, Edinburgh, locatedNear, North Bridge, Edinburgh]
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A.
Gorgie, Edinburgh
Gorgie, Edinburgh is a district in the west of Scotland’s capital city, known for its residential character and as the home area of the Heart of Midlothian football club.
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B.
Raeburn Place, Edinburgh
Raeburn Place, Edinburgh is a historic sports ground best known as the site of the world’s first international rugby union match.
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C.
Inverleith, Edinburgh
Inverleith, Edinburgh is a leafy residential district north of the city centre, known for its spacious Victorian villas, open green spaces, and the presence of the Royal Botanic Garden.
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D.
Queen Street, Edinburgh
Queen Street in Edinburgh is a prominent Georgian-era thoroughfare in the New Town, known for its elegant architecture and cultural institutions.
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E.
Charlotte Square, Edinburgh
Charlotte Square, Edinburgh is a renowned Georgian garden square and architectural showpiece in Scotland’s capital, celebrated as one of the finest examples of Robert Adam’s neoclassical urban design.
- 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: North Bridge, Edinburgh Target entity description: North Bridge in Edinburgh is a prominent road bridge in the city centre that links the Old Town and New Town across Waverley Station.
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A.
Gorgie, Edinburgh
Gorgie, Edinburgh is a district in the west of Scotland’s capital city, known for its residential character and as the home area of the Heart of Midlothian football club.
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B.
Raeburn Place, Edinburgh
Raeburn Place, Edinburgh is a historic sports ground best known as the site of the world’s first international rugby union match.
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C.
Inverleith, Edinburgh
Inverleith, Edinburgh is a leafy residential district north of the city centre, known for its spacious Victorian villas, open green spaces, and the presence of the Royal Botanic Garden.
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D.
Queen Street, Edinburgh
Queen Street in Edinburgh is a prominent Georgian-era thoroughfare in the New Town, known for its elegant architecture and cultural institutions.
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E.
Charlotte Square, Edinburgh
Charlotte Square, Edinburgh is a renowned Georgian garden square and architectural showpiece in Scotland’s capital, celebrated as one of the finest examples of Robert Adam’s neoclassical urban design.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city centre bridge
ⓘ
road bridge ⓘ |
| carries |
pedestrians
ⓘ
road traffic ⓘ |
| connects |
New Town, Edinburgh
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Old Town, Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crosses |
Waverley Station
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
valley containing Waverley Station ⓘ |
| hasDesign | multi-span bridge ⓘ |
| hasFunction | transport link between Old Town and New Town ⓘ |
| hasLanes | multiple traffic lanes ⓘ |
| hasMaterial |
masonry
ⓘ
steel ⓘ |
| hasSidewalks | both sides ⓘ |
| hasViewOf |
Calton Hill
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edinburgh Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isMajorRouteOn | north–south axis through central Edinburgh ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Edinburgh
ⓘ
Scotland ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | City of Edinburgh Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near |
Edinburgh Waverley railway station
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Princes Street NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal Mile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened | 1897 ⓘ |
| partOf | Edinburgh city centre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replaced | earlier 18th-century North Bridge ⓘ |
| usedFor |
local traffic
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public transport routes ⓘ tourist access between Old and New Towns ⓘ |
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: North Bridge, Edinburgh Description of subject: North Bridge in Edinburgh is a prominent road bridge in the city centre that links the Old Town and New Town across Waverley Station.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.