Smeaton’s Bridge
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Smeaton’s Bridge is a historic stone road bridge spanning the River Tay in Perth, Scotland, noted for its 18th-century engineering and enduring role as a key river crossing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Smeaton’s Bridge canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7732698 — 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: Smeaton’s Bridge Context triple: [Perth Bridge, hasAlternativeName, Smeaton’s Bridge]
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A.
Bakewell Bridge
Bakewell Bridge is a historic stone bridge spanning the River Wye in the market town of Bakewell in Derbyshire, England.
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B.
Hampton Court Bridge
Hampton Court Bridge is a historic road bridge in southwest London that carries traffic across the River Thames near Hampton Court Palace, linking Hampton in London with East Molesey in Surrey.
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C.
Iron Bridge
Iron Bridge is a historic cast-iron arch bridge in Shropshire, England, celebrated as the world’s first major bridge made of iron and a symbol of the Industrial Revolution.
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D.
Newport Transporter Bridge
The Newport Transporter Bridge is an early 20th-century steel transporter bridge spanning the River Usk in Newport, Wales, and is one of the few remaining structures of its kind in the world.
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E.
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.
- 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: Smeaton’s Bridge Target entity description: Smeaton’s Bridge is a historic stone road bridge spanning the River Tay in Perth, Scotland, noted for its 18th-century engineering and enduring role as a key river crossing.
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A.
Bakewell Bridge
Bakewell Bridge is a historic stone bridge spanning the River Wye in the market town of Bakewell in Derbyshire, England.
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B.
Hampton Court Bridge
Hampton Court Bridge is a historic road bridge in southwest London that carries traffic across the River Thames near Hampton Court Palace, linking Hampton in London with East Molesey in Surrey.
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C.
Iron Bridge
Iron Bridge is a historic cast-iron arch bridge in Shropshire, England, celebrated as the world’s first major bridge made of iron and a symbol of the Industrial Revolution.
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D.
Newport Transporter Bridge
The Newport Transporter Bridge is an early 20th-century steel transporter bridge spanning the River Usk in Newport, Wales, and is one of the few remaining structures of its kind in the world.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
listed building
ⓘ
river crossing ⓘ road bridge ⓘ stone arch bridge ⓘ |
| architect | John Smeaton ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1766 ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| crosses | River Tay ⓘ |
| designer | John Smeaton ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Old Bridge
ⓘ
Perth Bridge ⓘ |
| hasCenturyOfConstruction | 18th century ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | landmark of Perth ⓘ |
| hasEngineeringSignificance | example of John Smeaton’s bridge design ⓘ |
| hasFunction | road bridge over the River Tay ⓘ |
| hasHeritageValue | national importance in Scotland ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
18th-century engineering
ⓘ
key crossing of the River Tay ⓘ stone arches ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpans | 9 ⓘ |
| hasStructureType | arch bridge ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
Category A listed building
ⓘ
listed building in Scotland ⓘ |
| isAccessibleBy |
motor vehicles
ⓘ
pedestrians ⓘ |
| isHistoric | true ⓘ |
| isInCity | Perth ⓘ |
| isMaintainedBy |
local authorities of Perth and Kinross
ⓘ
linked to:
Perth and Kinross Council
|
| isOlderThan | Queen’s Bridge, Perth ⓘ |
| isPartOfRoute | road network of Perth ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Perth
ⓘ
Perth and Kinross ⓘ Scotland ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| materialUsed | stone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | John Smeaton ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1771 ⓘ |
| partOf | transport infrastructure of Perth ⓘ |
| usedFor |
pedestrian traffic
ⓘ
road 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: Smeaton’s Bridge Description of subject: Smeaton’s Bridge is a historic stone road bridge spanning the River Tay in Perth, Scotland, noted for its 18th-century engineering and enduring role as a key river crossing.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.