Great River Bridge
E233241
The Great River Bridge is a cable-stayed highway bridge spanning the Mississippi River at Burlington, Iowa, serving as a key regional crossing between Iowa and Illinois.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Great River Bridge canonical | 9 |
| Great River Bridge (Burlington) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T908799 — 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: Great River Bridge Context triple: [Burlington, Iowa, United States, hasBridge, Great River Bridge]
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A.
Grenville Dodge Memorial Bridge
The Grenville Dodge Memorial Bridge is a major highway bridge in the Omaha–Council Bluffs area that carries Interstate 480 across the Missouri River between Nebraska and Iowa.
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B.
Eads Bridge
Eads Bridge is a historic 19th-century steel arch bridge over the Mississippi River, renowned as one of the first major bridges to use steel extensively in its construction.
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C.
Sagamore Bridge
Sagamore Bridge is a major highway bridge in Massachusetts that carries traffic over the Cape Cod Canal, serving as one of the primary gateways to Cape Cod.
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D.
Mark Twain Memorial Bridge
The Mark Twain Memorial Bridge is a highway bridge over the Mississippi River near Hannibal, Missouri, named in honor of the famed American author Mark Twain.
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E.
Walt Whitman Bridge
The Walt Whitman Bridge is a major suspension bridge connecting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Gloucester City, New Jersey, and serving as a key highway crossing over the Delaware River.
- 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: Great River Bridge Target entity description: The Great River Bridge is a cable-stayed highway bridge spanning the Mississippi River at Burlington, Iowa, serving as a key regional crossing between Iowa and Illinois.
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A.
Grenville Dodge Memorial Bridge
The Grenville Dodge Memorial Bridge is a major highway bridge in the Omaha–Council Bluffs area that carries Interstate 480 across the Missouri River between Nebraska and Iowa.
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B.
Eads Bridge
Eads Bridge is a historic 19th-century steel arch bridge over the Mississippi River, renowned as one of the first major bridges to use steel extensively in its construction.
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C.
Sagamore Bridge
Sagamore Bridge is a major highway bridge in Massachusetts that carries traffic over the Cape Cod Canal, serving as one of the primary gateways to Cape Cod.
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D.
Mark Twain Memorial Bridge
The Mark Twain Memorial Bridge is a highway bridge over the Mississippi River near Hannibal, Missouri, named in honor of the famed American author Mark Twain.
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E.
Walt Whitman Bridge
The Walt Whitman Bridge is a major suspension bridge connecting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Gloucester City, New Jersey, and serving as a key highway crossing over the Delaware River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cable-stayed bridge
ⓘ
highway bridge ⓘ |
| carries |
U.S. Route 34
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
road traffic ⓘ |
| connects |
Illinois
ⓘ
Iowa ⓘ |
| crosses | Mississippi River ⓘ |
| crossesAt |
Burlington, Iowa–Gulfport, Illinois corridor
ⓘ
linked to:
Burlington–Fort Madison rail corridor
|
| hasDeckType | roadway deck ⓘ |
| hasDesign | cable-stayed ⓘ |
| hasFunction | vehicular traffic ⓘ |
| hasLocale |
Burlington metropolitan area
ⓘ
linked to:
Burlington μSA
|
| hasNumberOfSpans | multiple ⓘ |
| hasRegionServed |
southeastern Iowa
ⓘ
western Illinois ⓘ |
| hasStructureType | steel and concrete bridge ⓘ |
| hasToll | no ⓘ |
| hasTrafficDirection | bidirectional ⓘ |
| isOn |
Mississippi River crossing corridor at Burlington
ⓘ
linked to:
Burlington–Fort Madison rail corridor
|
| locatedIn |
Burlington, Iowa
ⓘ
Des Moines County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| maintainedBy |
Illinois Department of Transportation
ⓘ
Iowa Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Mississippi River (the Great River)
ⓘ
linked to:
Mississippi River
|
| opened | 1993 ⓘ |
| partOf |
U.S. Highway System
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Numbered Highway System
|
| replaced | MacArthur Bridge (Burlington, Iowa) ⓘ |
| servesAs | regional crossing between Iowa and Illinois ⓘ |
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: Great River Bridge Description of subject: The Great River Bridge is a cable-stayed highway bridge spanning the Mississippi River at Burlington, Iowa, serving as a key regional crossing between Iowa and Illinois.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Great River Bridge