Hernando de Soto Bridge
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The Hernando de Soto Bridge is a large steel arch bridge carrying Interstate 40 across the Mississippi River between Memphis, Tennessee, and Arkansas.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hernando de Soto Bridge canonical | 10 |
| I-40 Hernando de Soto Bridge | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T130886 — 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: Hernando de Soto Bridge Context triple: [Memphis, Tennessee, hasLandmark, Hernando de Soto Bridge]
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A.
Arland D. Williams Jr. Memorial Bridge
The Arland D. Williams Jr. Memorial Bridge is a Potomac River crossing in Washington, D.C., named in honor of an Air Florida Flight 90 crash hero and carrying traffic as part of the 14th Street Bridge complex.
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B.
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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C.
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.
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D.
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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E.
Memorial Bridge
Memorial Bridge is a prominent ceremonial bridge spanning the Potomac River, symbolically linking Arlington National Cemetery with the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
- 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: Hernando de Soto Bridge Target entity description: The Hernando de Soto Bridge is a large steel arch bridge carrying Interstate 40 across the Mississippi River between Memphis, Tennessee, and Arkansas.
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A.
Arland D. Williams Jr. Memorial Bridge
The Arland D. Williams Jr. Memorial Bridge is a Potomac River crossing in Washington, D.C., named in honor of an Air Florida Flight 90 crash hero and carrying traffic as part of the 14th Street Bridge complex.
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B.
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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C.
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.
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D.
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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E.
Memorial Bridge
Memorial Bridge is a prominent ceremonial bridge spanning the Potomac River, symbolically linking Arlington National Cemetery with the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
arch bridge
ⓘ
interstate highway bridge ⓘ road bridge ⓘ steel bridge ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | M Bridge ⓘ |
| carries |
Interstate 40
ⓘ
motor vehicle traffic ⓘ |
| connects |
Arkansas
ⓘ
Memphis, Tennessee ⓘ
linked to:
Memphis
|
| crosses | Mississippi River ⓘ |
| crossesBetween |
Arkansas
ⓘ
Tennessee ⓘ |
| crossesNear | downtown Memphis ⓘ |
| design | through arch bridge ⓘ |
| hasFeature | M-shaped arch profile ⓘ |
| hasFunction | regional transportation link ⓘ |
| hasLaneCount | 6 ⓘ |
| hasLighting | decorative lighting at night ⓘ |
| hasMainSpanType | steel through arch ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpans | 2 main spans ⓘ |
| hasStructureType | continuous steel box girder approaches ⓘ |
| hasToll | no ⓘ |
| hasTrafficType |
local commuter traffic
ⓘ
long-distance interstate traffic ⓘ |
| isMajorCrossingFor | Memphis metropolitan area ⓘ |
| isOnBoundaryBetween |
Arkansas
ⓘ
Tennessee ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
transportation infrastructure of Arkansas
ⓘ
transportation infrastructure of Memphis ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Crittenden County, Arkansas
ⓘ
Memphis, Tennessee ⓘ
linked to:
Memphis
Shelby County, Tennessee ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| maintainedBy |
Arkansas Department of Transportation
ⓘ
Tennessee Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| material | steel ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Hernando de Soto ⓘ |
| opened | 1973 ⓘ |
| openedToTraffic | August 1973 ⓘ |
| partOf | Interstate Highway System ⓘ |
| partOfRoute | I-40 corridor between Tennessee and Arkansas ⓘ |
| riverCrossingOf |
Lower Mississippi River
ⓘ
linked to:
Mississippi River
|
| usedFor | interstate commerce ⓘ |
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: Hernando de Soto Bridge Description of subject: The Hernando de Soto Bridge is a large steel arch bridge carrying Interstate 40 across the Mississippi River between Memphis, Tennessee, and Arkansas.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
subject linked to:
The Pyramid
linked to: Hernando de Soto Bridge