Thebes Bridge
E762026
Thebes Bridge is a historic railroad bridge over the Mississippi River between Illinois and Missouri, renowned as a major early-20th-century steel truss structure.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thebes Bridge canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8854791 — 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: Thebes Bridge Context triple: [Ralph Modjeski, notableWork, Thebes Bridge]
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A.
Antioch Bridge
Antioch Bridge is a highway bridge spanning the San Joaquin River in Northern California, connecting the cities of Antioch and Sherman Island as part of State Route 160.
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B.
Chinvat Bridge
Chinvat Bridge is the Zoroastrian mythological bridge of judgment that souls must cross after death, separating the world of the living from the afterlife.
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C.
Pyla crossing
Pyla crossing is a checkpoint along Cyprus’s UN-patrolled Green Line that facilitates controlled movement between the island’s Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot areas near the mixed village of Pyla.
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D.
Luxor Bridge
Luxor Bridge is a major road bridge spanning the Nile River near the city of Luxor in southern Egypt, connecting the east and west banks.
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E.
Crocodile Bridge Gate
Crocodile Bridge Gate is a southern entrance to South Africa’s Kruger National Park, known for its easy access to excellent game-viewing areas along the Crocodile 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: Thebes Bridge Target entity description: Thebes Bridge is a historic railroad bridge over the Mississippi River between Illinois and Missouri, renowned as a major early-20th-century steel truss structure.
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A.
Antioch Bridge
Antioch Bridge is a highway bridge spanning the San Joaquin River in Northern California, connecting the cities of Antioch and Sherman Island as part of State Route 160.
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B.
Chinvat Bridge
Chinvat Bridge is the Zoroastrian mythological bridge of judgment that souls must cross after death, separating the world of the living from the afterlife.
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C.
Pyla crossing
Pyla crossing is a checkpoint along Cyprus’s UN-patrolled Green Line that facilitates controlled movement between the island’s Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot areas near the mixed village of Pyla.
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D.
Luxor Bridge
Luxor Bridge is a major road bridge spanning the Nile River near the city of Luxor in southern Egypt, connecting the east and west banks.
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E.
Crocodile Bridge Gate
Crocodile Bridge Gate is a southern entrance to South Africa’s Kruger National Park, known for its easy access to excellent game-viewing areas along the Crocodile River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
railroad bridge
ⓘ
steel bridge ⓘ truss bridge ⓘ |
| carries | railroad tracks ⓘ |
| connects |
Illinois
ⓘ
Missouri ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crosses | Mississippi River ⓘ |
| designedFor | heavy railroad loads ⓘ |
| engineeringSignificance | important example of early 20th-century steel truss engineering ⓘ |
| function | railway bridge ⓘ |
| hasSpanType | truss span ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic bridge ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Illinois
ⓘ
Missouri ⓘ |
| material | steel ⓘ |
| near | Thebes, Illinois ⓘ |
| notableAs | major Mississippi River rail crossing ⓘ |
| notableFor | early 20th-century steel truss design ⓘ |
| partOf | rail network over the Mississippi River ⓘ |
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| riverCrossingOf | Mississippi River between Illinois and Missouri ⓘ |
| structureType | through truss ⓘ |
| transportMode | freight rail ⓘ |
| use | rail 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: Thebes Bridge Description of subject: Thebes Bridge is a historic railroad bridge over the Mississippi River between Illinois and Missouri, renowned as a major early-20th-century steel truss structure.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.