Boston University Bridge
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The Boston University Bridge is a steel truss bridge in Boston, Massachusetts, notable for carrying both road traffic and the MBTA Green Line over the Charles River near the Boston University campus.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Boston University Bridge canonical | 9 |
| MIT Bridge | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T89933 — 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: Boston University Bridge Context triple: [Charles River, hasBridge, Boston University Bridge]
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A.
Harvard Bridge
Harvard Bridge is a long roadway bridge in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, best known for carrying Massachusetts Avenue over the Charles River and for its quirky "smoot" length measurement.
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B.
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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C.
Madison Avenue Bridge
The Madison Avenue Bridge is a historic swing bridge in New York City that carries Madison Avenue traffic between Manhattan and the Bronx.
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D.
Willis Avenue Bridge
The Willis Avenue Bridge is a swing bridge in New York City that carries traffic between Manhattan and the Bronx.
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E.
Mystic River Bridge
The Mystic River Bridge, officially known as the Maurice J. Tobin Memorial Bridge, is a major steel cantilever roadway bridge in Boston, Massachusetts, carrying U.S. Route 1 over the Mystic River between Charlestown and Chelsea.
- 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: Boston University Bridge Target entity description: The Boston University Bridge is a steel truss bridge in Boston, Massachusetts, notable for carrying both road traffic and the MBTA Green Line over the Charles River near the Boston University campus.
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A.
Harvard Bridge
Harvard Bridge is a long roadway bridge in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, best known for carrying Massachusetts Avenue over the Charles River and for its quirky "smoot" length measurement.
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B.
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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C.
Madison Avenue Bridge
The Madison Avenue Bridge is a historic swing bridge in New York City that carries Madison Avenue traffic between Manhattan and the Bronx.
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D.
Willis Avenue Bridge
The Willis Avenue Bridge is a swing bridge in New York City that carries traffic between Manhattan and the Bronx.
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Mystic River Bridge
The Mystic River Bridge, officially known as the Maurice J. Tobin Memorial Bridge, is a major steel cantilever roadway bridge in Boston, Massachusetts, carrying U.S. Route 1 over the Mystic River between Charlestown and Chelsea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Boston University Bridge Description of subject: The Boston University Bridge is a steel truss bridge in Boston, Massachusetts, notable for carrying both road traffic and the MBTA Green Line over the Charles River near the Boston University campus.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Charles River, Boston and Cambridge
subject linked to:
Memorial Drive in Cambridge
linked to: Boston University Bridge