John Philip Sousa Bridge
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The John Philip Sousa Bridge is a major roadway bridge in Washington, D.C., carrying traffic across the Anacostia River and named in honor of the famous American composer and bandleader John Philip Sousa.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Philip Sousa Bridge canonical | 2 |
| John Philip Sousa Bridge (nearby access) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1832915 — 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: John Philip Sousa Bridge Context triple: [Southeast Washington, D.C., contains, John Philip Sousa Bridge]
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A.
Longfellow Bridge
Longfellow Bridge is a historic steel and granite bridge in Boston, Massachusetts, known for carrying road and rail traffic between Boston and Cambridge across the Charles River.
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B.
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.
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C.
Benjamin Franklin Bridge
The Benjamin Franklin Bridge is a major suspension bridge connecting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey, serving as a key transportation link across the Delaware River.
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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.
Theodore Roosevelt Bridge
The Theodore Roosevelt Bridge is a major highway bridge over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., carrying traffic between the city and Arlington, Virginia.
- 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: John Philip Sousa Bridge Target entity description: The John Philip Sousa Bridge is a major roadway bridge in Washington, D.C., carrying traffic across the Anacostia River and named in honor of the famous American composer and bandleader John Philip Sousa.
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A.
Longfellow Bridge
Longfellow Bridge is a historic steel and granite bridge in Boston, Massachusetts, known for carrying road and rail traffic between Boston and Cambridge across the Charles River.
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B.
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.
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C.
Benjamin Franklin Bridge
The Benjamin Franklin Bridge is a major suspension bridge connecting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey, serving as a key transportation link across the Delaware River.
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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.
Theodore Roosevelt Bridge
The Theodore Roosevelt Bridge is a major highway bridge over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., carrying traffic between the city and Arlington, Virginia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bridge in Washington, D.C.
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highway bridge ⓘ road bridge ⓘ |
| carries |
motor vehicles
ⓘ
road traffic ⓘ |
| connects |
neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River
ⓘ
neighborhoods west of the Anacostia River ⓘ |
| crosses |
Anacostia River
ⓘ
Anacostia waterfront area ⓘ
linked to:
Anacostia waterfront
|
| hasAccess | public ⓘ |
| hasDedication | honor of John Philip Sousa ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
river crossing
ⓘ
transportation ⓘ |
| hasGeographicContext |
Mid-Atlantic United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Mid-Atlantic states
|
| hasHeritage | commemorative infrastructure ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction |
District of Columbia government
ⓘ
linked to:
Government of the District of Columbia
|
| hasNameLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasStructureType | roadway bridge ⓘ |
| hasToll | no ⓘ |
| isInCountryCapital | United States capital city ⓘ |
| isMajorCrossingOf |
Anacostia River in Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
linked to:
Anacostia River
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| isNamedStructureType | memorial bridge ⓘ |
| isPartOfUrbanArea | Washington metropolitan area ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| namedAfter | John Philip Sousa ⓘ |
| namedForNationality | American ⓘ |
| namedForOccupation |
bandleader
ⓘ
composer ⓘ |
| partOf |
District of Columbia highway network
ⓘ
linked to:
Washington, D.C. arterial road network
|
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: John Philip Sousa Bridge Description of subject: The John Philip Sousa Bridge is a major roadway bridge in Washington, D.C., carrying traffic across the Anacostia River and named in honor of the famous American composer and bandleader John Philip Sousa.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: John Philip Sousa Bridge