Benicia–Martinez Bridge
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The Benicia–Martinez Bridge is a major highway and rail crossing over the Carquinez Strait in the San Francisco Bay Area, connecting the cities of Benicia and Martinez.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Benicia–Martinez Bridge canonical | 14 |
| Benicia-Martinez Bridge | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T797848 — 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: Benicia–Martinez Bridge Context triple: [Contra Costa County, hasMajorBridge, Benicia–Martinez Bridge]
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A.
San Mateo–Hayward Bridge
The San Mateo–Hayward Bridge is a major vehicular bridge in the San Francisco Bay Area that carries traffic across the bay between the San Mateo Peninsula and the East Bay.
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B.
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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C.
Fremont Bridge
The Fremont Bridge is a prominent tied-arch freeway bridge in Portland, Oregon, known for carrying Interstate 405 across the Willamette River and being one of the city's most recognizable landmarks.
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D.
San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge
The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge is a major multi-span suspension and cantilever bridge connecting San Francisco and Oakland, serving as one of the primary highway links across the central part of the San Francisco Bay.
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E.
Yaquina Bay Bridge
The Yaquina Bay Bridge is an iconic 1930s Art Deco–style arch bridge on the Oregon coast, renowned for its elegant design and role as a key crossing on U.S. Route 101.
- 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: Benicia–Martinez Bridge Target entity description: The Benicia–Martinez Bridge is a major highway and rail crossing over the Carquinez Strait in the San Francisco Bay Area, connecting the cities of Benicia and Martinez.
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A.
San Mateo–Hayward Bridge
The San Mateo–Hayward Bridge is a major vehicular bridge in the San Francisco Bay Area that carries traffic across the bay between the San Mateo Peninsula and the East Bay.
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B.
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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C.
Fremont Bridge
The Fremont Bridge is a prominent tied-arch freeway bridge in Portland, Oregon, known for carrying Interstate 405 across the Willamette River and being one of the city's most recognizable landmarks.
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D.
San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge
The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge is a major multi-span suspension and cantilever bridge connecting San Francisco and Oakland, serving as one of the primary highway links across the central part of the San Francisco Bay.
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E.
Yaquina Bay Bridge
The Yaquina Bay Bridge is an iconic 1930s Art Deco–style arch bridge on the Oregon coast, renowned for its elegant design and role as a key crossing on U.S. Route 101.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bridge
ⓘ
highway bridge ⓘ rail bridge ⓘ road bridge ⓘ toll bridge ⓘ |
| carries | Interstate 680 ⓘ |
| connects |
Benicia, California
ⓘ
linked to:
City of Benicia, California
Martinez, California ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| crosses |
Carquinez Strait
ⓘ
linked to:
Carquinez Pass
Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta outlet ⓘ
linked to:
Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta
Suisun Bay–Carquinez Strait transition ⓘ
linked to:
Suisun Bay
navigable waterway ⓘ |
| designedFor |
automobiles
ⓘ
freight trains ⓘ passenger trains ⓘ trucks ⓘ |
| function | regional transportation link ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
2007 northbound bridge
ⓘ
original 1962 bridge ⓘ railroad bridge ⓘ |
| hasLanes | multiple traffic lanes ⓘ |
| hasRailLine |
Amtrak California services
ⓘ
linked to:
Amtrak California
Union Pacific Railroad ⓘ |
| hasTollCollection |
FasTrak
ⓘ
electronic tolling ⓘ |
| importance | major regional crossing ⓘ |
| isOn | Interstate Highway System ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Contra Costa County, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Contra Costa County
San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ Solano County, California ⓘ
linked to:
Solano County
|
| maintainedBy |
California Department of Transportation
ⓘ
linked to:
Caltrans
Caltrans ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Benicia
ⓘ
Martinez ⓘ
linked to:
Martinez, California
|
| opened |
1962
ⓘ
2007 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Bay Area toll bridge network
ⓘ
State highway system of California ⓘ
linked to:
California state highway system
|
| region | Northern California ⓘ |
| separates | Suisun Bay and Carquinez Strait traffic flows ⓘ |
| structureType | steel bridge ⓘ |
| tollAppliesTo | southbound traffic ⓘ |
| tollRoad | yes ⓘ |
| usedFor |
rail traffic
ⓘ
vehicular 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: Benicia–Martinez Bridge Description of subject: The Benicia–Martinez Bridge is a major highway and rail crossing over the Carquinez Strait in the San Francisco Bay Area, connecting the cities of Benicia and Martinez.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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