Salmo–Creston Pass
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Salmo–Creston Pass is a high mountain pass in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, that carries traffic through the Selkirk Mountains between the communities of Salmo and Creston.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Salmo–Creston Pass canonical | 2 |
| Salmo-Creston Highway summit | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13292261 — 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: Salmo–Creston Pass Context triple: [British Columbia Highway 3, crosses, Salmo–Creston Pass]
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A.
Muir Pass
Muir Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, traversed by the John Muir Trail and Pacific Crest Trail and known for its remote, alpine terrain and stone shelter.
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B.
Thompson Pass
Thompson Pass is a high mountain pass in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains, noted for its extreme snowfall and role as a key route between the coast and the state’s interior.
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C.
Santiam Pass
Santiam Pass is a major mountain pass in Oregon’s Cascade Range that serves as a key transportation route through the central Cascades.
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D.
Beckwourth Pass
Beckwourth Pass is a high mountain pass in the northern Sierra Nevada of California, historically significant as a travel route and later used by major rail and highway lines.
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E.
Snoqualmie Pass
Snoqualmie Pass is a major mountain pass in Washington State that serves as a key transportation corridor through the Cascade Range and a popular destination for skiing and outdoor recreation.
- 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: Salmo–Creston Pass Target entity description: Salmo–Creston Pass is a high mountain pass in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, that carries traffic through the Selkirk Mountains between the communities of Salmo and Creston.
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A.
Muir Pass
Muir Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, traversed by the John Muir Trail and Pacific Crest Trail and known for its remote, alpine terrain and stone shelter.
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B.
Thompson Pass
Thompson Pass is a high mountain pass in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains, noted for its extreme snowfall and role as a key route between the coast and the state’s interior.
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C.
Santiam Pass
Santiam Pass is a major mountain pass in Oregon’s Cascade Range that serves as a key transportation route through the central Cascades.
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D.
Beckwourth Pass
Beckwourth Pass is a high mountain pass in the northern Sierra Nevada of California, historically significant as a travel route and later used by major rail and highway lines.
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E.
Snoqualmie Pass
Snoqualmie Pass is a major mountain pass in Washington State that serves as a key transportation corridor through the Cascade Range and a popular destination for skiing and outdoor recreation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mountain pass
ⓘ
transportation corridor ⓘ |
| connects |
Creston
ⓘ
Salmo ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| hasAccessTo |
Creston Valley
ⓘ
Salmo area ⓘ |
| hasClimateCondition |
mountain weather
ⓘ
snowy winters ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
curving alignment
ⓘ
mountain road ⓘ steep grades ⓘ |
| hasImportance | regional transportation link ⓘ |
| hasTerrain | high mountain terrain ⓘ |
| isInContinent | North America ⓘ |
| isInHemisphere | Northern Hemisphere ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
British Columbia
ⓘ
Selkirk Mountains region of British Columbia ⓘ |
| locatedInMountainRange | Selkirk Mountains ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | southeastern British Columbia ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
East Kootenay region
ⓘ
linked to:
East Kootenay
West Kootenay region ⓘ
linked to:
West Kootenay
|
| locatedOn | Highway 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Highway 3 corridor in British Columbia ⓘ |
| roadType | paved highway ⓘ |
| traversedBy | motor vehicles ⓘ |
| usedBy |
commercial traffic
ⓘ
tourist traffic ⓘ |
| usedFor | road transport ⓘ |
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: Salmo–Creston Pass Description of subject: Salmo–Creston Pass is a high mountain pass in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, that carries traffic through the Selkirk Mountains between the communities of Salmo and Creston.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Salmo–Creston Pass