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Golden Gate Bridge

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The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate strait between San Francisco and Marin County, California, carrying road, pedestrian and bicycle traffic across the entrance to San Francisco Bay. Designed under chief engineer Joseph Strauss with contributions from Leon Moisseiff, Irving Morrow and Charles Ellis, it opened on May 27, 1937, and its Art Deco influenced towers have made it one of the most recognized symbols of San Francisco and California, once described by a travel guide as possibly the most beautiful and certainly the most photographed bridge in the world. On opening it held the record as both the longest and tallest suspension bridge in the world, and it has since been named one of the Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Facts
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Suspension bridge 2
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Marin County, United States 2
Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account
1937 2
Height (m)Sourced to the subject's own account
227.38 2
Classification
Standing StatusSourced to the subject's own account
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
Bridge 1
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Bridge, Concepts

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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Source Golden Gate Bridge (Wikipedia)

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Source Golden Gate Bridge (Wikipedia)
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1. Golden Gate Bridge (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Wikipedia "Golden Gate Bridge" intro (read live, w-fk-arch-rel2-0927c, R-K)
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate strait between San Francisco and Marin County, California, carrying road, pedestrian and bicycle traffic across the entrance to San Francisco Bay. Designed under chief engineer Joseph Strauss with contributions from Leon Moisseiff, Irving Morrow and Charles Ellis, it opened on May 27, 1937, and its Art Deco influenced towers have made it one of the most recognized symbols of San Francisco and California, once described by a travel guide as possibly the most beautiful and certainly the most photographed bridge in the world. On opening it held the record as both the longest and tallest suspension bridge in the world, and it has since been named one of the Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
  • Uses Element: Steel, Infobox material field: Steel
  • In Style: Art Deco, Wikipedia categories
    Category:Art Deco architecture in California
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2. Golden Gate Bridge (Wikidata)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Wikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (1937)
    Wikidata item Q44440, property P1619: 1937
  • Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Suspension bridge)
    Wikidata item Q44440, instance of (P31): suspension bridge
  • Wikidata height (P2048) statement: 227.38
    Wikidata item Q44440, property P2048 (height): 227.38 m (converted to metres, preferred/normal rank, non-deprecated)
  • Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Marin County, United States
    Wikidata item Q44440, property P131/P17 (location): Marin County, United States
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