Skerton Bridge
E278031
Skerton Bridge is a historic stone road bridge in Lancaster, England, notable for its pioneering use of flat arches across the River Lune.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Skerton Bridge canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1689848 — 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: Skerton Bridge Context triple: [River Lune, hasBridge, Skerton Bridge]
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A.
Rothbury Bridge
Rothbury Bridge is a historic stone road bridge spanning the River Coquet in the village of Rothbury, Northumberland, England.
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B.
Thelwall Bridge
Thelwall Bridge is a major motorway viaduct carrying the M6 over the Manchester Ship Canal and River Mersey near Warrington in Cheshire, England.
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C.
Pooley Bridge
Pooley Bridge is a small Cumbrian village at the northern end of Ullswater in England’s Lake District, known as a popular tourist base for lakeside walks and boat trips.
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D.
Cobham Bridge
Cobham Bridge is a road bridge in Surrey, England, that carries traffic across the River Mole near the village of Cobham.
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E.
Gunthorpe Bridge
Gunthorpe Bridge is a road bridge spanning the River Trent in Nottinghamshire, England, carrying the A6097 and serving as a key local crossing point.
- 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: Skerton Bridge Target entity description: Skerton Bridge is a historic stone road bridge in Lancaster, England, notable for its pioneering use of flat arches across the River Lune.
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A.
Rothbury Bridge
Rothbury Bridge is a historic stone road bridge spanning the River Coquet in the village of Rothbury, Northumberland, England.
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B.
Thelwall Bridge
Thelwall Bridge is a major motorway viaduct carrying the M6 over the Manchester Ship Canal and River Mersey near Warrington in Cheshire, England.
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C.
Pooley Bridge
Pooley Bridge is a small Cumbrian village at the northern end of Ullswater in England’s Lake District, known as a popular tourist base for lakeside walks and boat trips.
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D.
Cobham Bridge
Cobham Bridge is a road bridge in Surrey, England, that carries traffic across the River Mole near the village of Cobham.
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E.
Gunthorpe Bridge
Gunthorpe Bridge is a road bridge spanning the River Trent in Nottinghamshire, England, carrying the A6097 and serving as a key local crossing point.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic structure
ⓘ
listed building ⓘ road bridge ⓘ stone arch bridge ⓘ |
| architect | John Rennie the Elder ⓘ |
| carries | A6 road ⓘ |
| category |
Bridges completed in 1787
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Bridges in Lancashire ⓘ Grade II* listed bridges in England ⓘ |
| constructionEnd | 1787 ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 1783 ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crosses | River Lune ⓘ |
| feature |
cutwaters
ⓘ
flat segmental arches ⓘ parapets ⓘ |
| hasEngineeringSignificance | early example of wide flat-arched stone bridge ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
pedestrian crossing of the River Lune
ⓘ
vehicular crossing of the River Lune ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Grade II* listed building ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationCountry | England ⓘ |
| locatedInSettlement | Skerton ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Lancaster city centre
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linked to:
Lancaster, England
|
| location |
England
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Lancashire ⓘ Lancaster ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Lancashire County Council ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| notableFor | pioneering use of flat arches ⓘ |
| numberOfSpans | 5 ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1787 ⓘ |
| partOf | transport infrastructure of Lancaster ⓘ |
| replaced | earlier medieval bridge over the River Lune ⓘ |
| structureType | multi-span arch bridge ⓘ |
| use | road traffic ⓘ |
| waterway | River Lune ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Skerton Bridge Description of subject: Skerton Bridge is a historic stone road bridge in Lancaster, England, notable for its pioneering use of flat arches across the River Lune.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.