Whitby Swing Bridge
E639614
Whitby Swing Bridge is a historic movable bridge in Whitby, North Yorkshire, that spans the River Esk and opens to allow maritime traffic to pass between the town’s upper and lower harbours.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Whitby Swing Bridge canonical | 1 |
| Whitby swing bridge | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6114393 — 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: Whitby Swing Bridge Context triple: [Whitby, hasLandmark, Whitby Swing Bridge]
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A.
Trowse Swing Bridge
Trowse Swing Bridge is a movable railway bridge near Norwich in Norfolk, England, that carries trains over the River Yare and swings open to allow river traffic to pass.
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B.
Reedham Swing Bridge
Reedham Swing Bridge is a historic railway swing bridge in Norfolk, England, that carries trains across the River Yare and opens to allow river traffic to pass.
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C.
Barton High Level Bridge
Barton High Level Bridge is a high-level road bridge in Greater Manchester, England, carrying the M60 motorway over the Manchester Ship Canal near Barton-upon-Irwell.
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D.
Walney Bridge
Walney Bridge is a road bridge in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, that connects the mainland town to Walney Island across the Walney Channel.
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E.
Berwick Bridge
Berwick Bridge is a historic stone bridge spanning the River Tweed in Berwick-upon-Tweed, England, notable for its multiple arches and former role as the town’s main river crossing.
- 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: Whitby Swing Bridge Target entity description: Whitby Swing Bridge is a historic movable bridge in Whitby, North Yorkshire, that spans the River Esk and opens to allow maritime traffic to pass between the town’s upper and lower harbours.
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A.
Trowse Swing Bridge
Trowse Swing Bridge is a movable railway bridge near Norwich in Norfolk, England, that carries trains over the River Yare and swings open to allow river traffic to pass.
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B.
Reedham Swing Bridge
Reedham Swing Bridge is a historic railway swing bridge in Norfolk, England, that carries trains across the River Yare and opens to allow river traffic to pass.
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C.
Barton High Level Bridge
Barton High Level Bridge is a high-level road bridge in Greater Manchester, England, carrying the M60 motorway over the Manchester Ship Canal near Barton-upon-Irwell.
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D.
Walney Bridge
Walney Bridge is a road bridge in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, that connects the mainland town to Walney Island across the Walney Channel.
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E.
Berwick Bridge
Berwick Bridge is a historic stone bridge spanning the River Tweed in Berwick-upon-Tweed, England, notable for its multiple arches and former role as the town’s main river crossing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road bridge
ⓘ
swing bridge ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| carries |
motor vehicles
ⓘ
pedestrians ⓘ |
| connects |
lower harbour of Whitby
ⓘ
upper harbour of Whitby ⓘ |
| controlledBy | bridge control tower ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crosses | River Esk ⓘ |
| designedFor | both road and river traffic ⓘ |
| hasAccess | publicly accessible ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
carries road traffic across the River Esk
ⓘ
opens to allow maritime traffic to pass ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | Grade II listed building ⓘ |
| hasOpeningSchedule | opens at set times for vessels ⓘ |
| hasPart |
central pivot
ⓘ
control cabin ⓘ two swinging leaves ⓘ |
| heritageValue | historic engineering structure ⓘ |
| isOnWaterway | tidal section of the River Esk ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Borough of Scarborough (historic local government area)
ⓘ
linked to:
Scarborough Borough Council
England ⓘ North Yorkshire ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ Whitby ⓘ |
| material |
masonry approaches
ⓘ
steel ⓘ |
| near |
Whitby Harbour
ⓘ
Whitby Old Town ⓘ
linked to:
Whitby
Whitby town centre ⓘ
linked to:
Whitby
|
| openingMechanism | swings horizontally ⓘ |
| operatedBy | North Yorkshire Council ⓘ |
| region | Yorkshire and the Humber ⓘ |
| replaced | earlier wooden bridge ⓘ |
| riverMouthDirection | North Sea ⓘ |
| safetyFeature |
barriers that close during opening
ⓘ
traffic lights controlling vehicles ⓘ |
| significance |
important transport link in Whitby
ⓘ
local landmark ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
local tourism information
ⓘ
photography by visitors ⓘ |
| trafficType | local road traffic ⓘ |
| usedBy |
fishing vessels
ⓘ
harbour service vessels ⓘ pleasure craft ⓘ |
| usedFor | access between east and west sides of Whitby ⓘ |
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: Whitby Swing Bridge Description of subject: Whitby Swing Bridge is a historic movable bridge in Whitby, North Yorkshire, that spans the River Esk and opens to allow maritime traffic to pass between the town’s upper and lower harbours.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Whitby Swing Bridge