The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth in eastern Scotland, about nine miles west of Edinburgh, designed by engineers John Fowler and Benjamin Baker and completed in 1890. Built of steel in a distinctive triple cantilever form, it held the record for the longest cantilever span in the world until 1919 and remains the second longest single cantilever span in the world. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015 and is regarded as a symbol of Scotland.
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Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account LocationSourced to the subject's own accountCity of Edinburgh, United Kingdom 2 LocationSourced to the subject's own account Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account Height (m)Sourced to the subject's own account Classification
Standing StatusSourced to the subject's own account Building Type
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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1. Forth Bridge (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation- Wikipedia "Forth Bridge" intro (read live, w-fk-arch-rel2-0927c, R-K)
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The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth in eastern Scotland, about nine miles west of Edinburgh, designed by engineers John Fowler and Benjamin Baker and completed in 1890. Built of steel in a distinctive triple cantilever form, it held the record for the longest cantilever span in the world until 1919 and remains the second longest single cantilever span in the world. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015 and is regarded as a symbol of Scotland.
Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field (1890)
The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, 9 miles (14 kilometres) west of central Edinburgh. Completed in 1890, it is considered a symbol of Scotland (having been voted Scotland's greatest man-made wonder in 2016), and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was designed by English engineers Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker. It is sometime
- Uses Element: Steel, Infobox material field: Steel
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Wikimedia FoundationWikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Cantilever bridge)
Wikidata item Q275, instance of (P31): cantilever bridge
Wikidata height (P2048) statement: 110.0
Wikidata item Q275, property P2048 (height): 110.0 m (converted to metres, preferred/normal rank, non-deprecated)
Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: City of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Wikidata item Q275, property P131/P17 (location): City of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Fife, United Kingdom
Wikidata item Q275, property P131/P17 (location): Fife, United Kingdom
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