Barton Road Swing Bridge
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Barton Road Swing Bridge is a movable road bridge in Greater Manchester, England, that swings to allow ships to pass along the Manchester Ship Canal.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Barton Road Swing Bridge canonical | 6 |
| Silver Jubilee Bridge | 1 |
| Warburton Bridge | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T46571 — 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: Barton Road Swing Bridge Context triple: [Manchester Ship Canal, hasStructure, Barton Road Swing Bridge]
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A.
Trinity Bridge
Trinity Bridge is a distinctive three-way footbridge in Greater Manchester, England, designed by architect Santiago Calatrava to link Salford and Manchester across the River Irwell.
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B.
Adelphi Footbridge
Adelphi Footbridge is a pedestrian bridge spanning the River Irwell in Salford, England, providing a crossing between key areas of the city.
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C.
Wellington Bridge
Wellington Bridge is a roadway bridge in the Boston area that carries traffic across the Mystic River between Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts.
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D.
Barton Swing Aqueduct
Barton Swing Aqueduct is a pioneering movable navigable aqueduct in Greater Manchester, England, that carries the Bridgewater Canal over the Manchester Ship Canal by swinging aside to allow large ships to pass.
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E.
Macombs Dam Bridge
Macombs Dam Bridge is a historic swing bridge in New York City that connects Manhattan and the Bronx across the Harlem 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: Barton Road Swing Bridge Target entity description: Barton Road Swing Bridge is a movable road bridge in Greater Manchester, England, that swings to allow ships to pass along the Manchester Ship Canal.
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A.
Trinity Bridge
Trinity Bridge is a distinctive three-way footbridge in Greater Manchester, England, designed by architect Santiago Calatrava to link Salford and Manchester across the River Irwell.
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B.
Adelphi Footbridge
Adelphi Footbridge is a pedestrian bridge spanning the River Irwell in Salford, England, providing a crossing between key areas of the city.
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C.
Wellington Bridge
Wellington Bridge is a roadway bridge in the Boston area that carries traffic across the Mystic River between Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts.
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D.
Barton Swing Aqueduct
Barton Swing Aqueduct is a pioneering movable navigable aqueduct in Greater Manchester, England, that carries the Bridgewater Canal over the Manchester Ship Canal by swinging aside to allow large ships to pass.
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E.
Macombs Dam Bridge
Macombs Dam Bridge is a historic swing bridge in New York City that connects Manhattan and the Bronx across the Harlem River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
movable bridge
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road bridge ⓘ swing bridge ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crosses | Manchester Ship Canal ⓘ |
| function | carries road traffic across the Manchester Ship Canal ⓘ |
| hasOpeningMechanism | swing ⓘ |
| hasToll | false ⓘ |
| isMovable | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
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Greater Manchester ⓘ |
| movementType | swings horizontally to open ⓘ |
| partOf | infrastructure of the Manchester Ship Canal ⓘ |
| purpose | to allow ships to pass along the Manchester Ship Canal ⓘ |
| usedFor | 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: Barton Road Swing Bridge Description of subject: Barton Road Swing Bridge is a movable road bridge in Greater Manchester, England, that swings to allow ships to pass along the Manchester Ship Canal.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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