Cowes Floating Bridge
E151025
Cowes Floating Bridge is a chain ferry that transports vehicles and pedestrians across the River Medina between Cowes and East Cowes on the Isle of Wight.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cowes Floating Bridge canonical | 3 |
| Cowes Chain Ferry | 1 |
| Cowes Floating Bridge (chain ferry) | 1 |
| chain ferry at Cowes (Cowes Floating Bridge) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1118295 — 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: Cowes Floating Bridge Context triple: [East Cowes, hasRiverCrossing, Cowes Floating Bridge]
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A.
Runnymede Bridge
Runnymede Bridge is a road bridge over the River Thames in Surrey, England, carrying the M25 motorway near the historic meadow of Runnymede.
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B.
Leatherhead Bridge
Leatherhead Bridge is a historic road bridge spanning the River Mole in Leatherhead, Surrey, England.
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C.
Ha'penny Bridge
Ha'penny Bridge is a historic cast-iron pedestrian bridge over the River Liffey and one of Dublin’s most iconic symbols.
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D.
Kingston Bridge
Kingston Bridge is a major motorway bridge in Glasgow, Scotland, carrying the M8 over the River Clyde and serving as one of the city’s busiest road crossings.
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E.
Esher Bridge
Esher Bridge is a historic road bridge in Esher, Surrey, carrying traffic over the River Mole.
- 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: Cowes Floating Bridge Target entity description: Cowes Floating Bridge is a chain ferry that transports vehicles and pedestrians across the River Medina between Cowes and East Cowes on the Isle of Wight.
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A.
Runnymede Bridge
Runnymede Bridge is a road bridge over the River Thames in Surrey, England, carrying the M25 motorway near the historic meadow of Runnymede.
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B.
Leatherhead Bridge
Leatherhead Bridge is a historic road bridge spanning the River Mole in Leatherhead, Surrey, England.
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C.
Ha'penny Bridge
Ha'penny Bridge is a historic cast-iron pedestrian bridge over the River Liffey and one of Dublin’s most iconic symbols.
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D.
Kingston Bridge
Kingston Bridge is a major motorway bridge in Glasgow, Scotland, carrying the M8 over the River Clyde and serving as one of the city’s busiest road crossings.
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E.
Esher Bridge
Esher Bridge is a historic road bridge in Esher, Surrey, carrying traffic over the River Mole.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
chain ferry
ⓘ
pedestrian ferry ⓘ transport infrastructure ⓘ vehicular ferry ⓘ |
| connects |
Cowes
ⓘ
East Cowes ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crosses | River Medina ⓘ |
| hasLocalName |
Cowes Chain Ferry
ⓘ
linked to:
Cowes Floating Bridge
The Floating Bridge ⓘ |
| hasTerminus |
Cowes shore of River Medina
ⓘ
linked to:
Cowes
East Cowes shore of River Medina ⓘ
linked to:
East Cowes
|
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Isle of Wight ⓘ |
| operatesOn | River Medina ⓘ |
| partOf | Isle of Wight transport network ⓘ |
| region | Isle of Wight ⓘ |
| route | across River Medina between Cowes and East Cowes ⓘ |
| serves |
Cowes
ⓘ
East Cowes ⓘ |
| transports |
pedestrians
ⓘ
vehicles ⓘ |
| uses | chain propulsion ⓘ |
| waterway | River Medina ⓘ |
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: Cowes Floating Bridge Description of subject: Cowes Floating Bridge is a chain ferry that transports vehicles and pedestrians across the River Medina between Cowes and East Cowes on the Isle of Wight.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cowes Floating Bridge
linked to: Cowes Floating Bridge
subject linked to:
EAST COWES
linked to: Cowes Floating Bridge