Mantua Creek railroad bridge
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The Mantua Creek railroad bridge is a swing-span rail bridge in Paulsboro, New Jersey, known for carrying freight trains over Mantua Creek and for its involvement in a notable 2012 train derailment and chemical spill.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mantua Creek railroad bridge canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9204590 — 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: Mantua Creek railroad bridge Context triple: [Paulsboro, New Jersey, hasBridge, Mantua Creek railroad bridge]
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A.
Contoocook Railroad Bridge
The Contoocook Railroad Bridge is a historic covered railroad bridge in New Hampshire, notable as one of the oldest surviving examples of its kind in the United States.
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B.
Galena Creek Bridge
Galena Creek Bridge is a large concrete arch highway bridge in Nevada known for carrying traffic through the mountainous terrain south of Reno.
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C.
Strawberry Creek bridge
Strawberry Creek bridge is a pedestrian bridge on the UC Berkeley campus that spans Strawberry Creek near Sather Gate, serving as a key walkway between central campus areas.
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D.
Kinzie Street Railroad Bridge
The Kinzie Street Railroad Bridge is a historic, early 20th-century vertical-lift railroad bridge in downtown Chicago, notable as one of the city’s iconic industrial-era river crossings.
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E.
Hickman Bridge
Hickman Bridge is a prominent natural sandstone arch and popular hiking destination located within Capitol Reef National Park in Utah.
- 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: Mantua Creek railroad bridge Target entity description: The Mantua Creek railroad bridge is a swing-span rail bridge in Paulsboro, New Jersey, known for carrying freight trains over Mantua Creek and for its involvement in a notable 2012 train derailment and chemical spill.
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A.
Contoocook Railroad Bridge
The Contoocook Railroad Bridge is a historic covered railroad bridge in New Hampshire, notable as one of the oldest surviving examples of its kind in the United States.
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B.
Galena Creek Bridge
Galena Creek Bridge is a large concrete arch highway bridge in Nevada known for carrying traffic through the mountainous terrain south of Reno.
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C.
Strawberry Creek bridge
Strawberry Creek bridge is a pedestrian bridge on the UC Berkeley campus that spans Strawberry Creek near Sather Gate, serving as a key walkway between central campus areas.
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D.
Kinzie Street Railroad Bridge
The Kinzie Street Railroad Bridge is a historic, early 20th-century vertical-lift railroad bridge in downtown Chicago, notable as one of the city’s iconic industrial-era river crossings.
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E.
Hickman Bridge
Hickman Bridge is a prominent natural sandstone arch and popular hiking destination located within Capitol Reef National Park in Utah.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
railway bridge
ⓘ
swing bridge ⓘ |
| approachFrom |
Gibbstown, New Jersey side
ⓘ
Paulsboro, New Jersey side ⓘ |
| carried | Conrail freight train ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crosses | Mantua Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crossesWaterBody | Mantua Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eventLocation | 2012 Paulsboro train derailment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| function | to carry trains over Mantua Creek ⓘ |
| hasDesign | swing-span truss ⓘ |
| hasTraffic | freight trains ⓘ |
| hazardousMaterialsIncident | vinyl chloride release in 2012 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Gloucester County, New Jersey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Jersey, United States ⓘ
surface form:
New Jersey
Paulsboro, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material | steel ⓘ |
| near |
Paulsboro residential areas
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industrial facilities along Mantua Creek ⓘ |
| notableFor |
2012 train derailment
ⓘ
2012 vinyl chloride chemical spill ⓘ |
| openedForTraffic | early 20th century ⓘ |
| operator | Conrail Shared Assets Operations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | Conrail Shared Assets Operations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Conrail Shared Assets Operations network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| railwayLine | Penns Grove Secondary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structureType | swing-span ⓘ |
| usedFor | freight rail 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: Mantua Creek railroad bridge Description of subject: The Mantua Creek railroad bridge is a swing-span rail bridge in Paulsboro, New Jersey, known for carrying freight trains over Mantua Creek and for its involvement in a notable 2012 train derailment and chemical spill.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.