Mount Whitney Trail
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Mount Whitney Trail is the primary hiking route used by climbers to reach the summit of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mount Whitney Trail canonical | 11 |
| Mount Whitney trailhead | 2 |
| Mount Whitney Main Trailhead | 1 |
| Mount Whitney Trail from Whitney Portal | 1 |
| Mount Whitney climbing route | 1 |
| Mountaineers Route on Mount Whitney | 1 |
| climbing Mount Whitney | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12625 — 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: Mount Whitney Trail Context triple: [Mount Whitney, popularRoute, Mount Whitney Trail]
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A.
John Muir Trail
The John Muir Trail is a long-distance hiking route in California renowned for its spectacular alpine scenery as it passes through Yosemite, Kings Canyon, and Sequoia National Parks.
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B.
Pacific Crest Trail
The Pacific Crest Trail is a long-distance hiking and equestrian route that runs from the Mexican border to the Canadian border through California, Oregon, and Washington along the crests of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain ranges.
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C.
Carson Pass
Carson Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s central Sierra Nevada, known for its scenic alpine landscapes, hiking trails, and historic role as a route for emigrant wagon trains.
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D.
Ebbetts Pass
Ebbetts Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, known for its scenic, winding route and historic role as a trans-Sierra crossing.
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E.
Tioga Pass
Tioga Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, best known as the eastern entrance to Yosemite National Park and one of the highest paved roads in the state.
- 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: Mount Whitney Trail Target entity description: Mount Whitney Trail is the primary hiking route used by climbers to reach the summit of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States.
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A.
John Muir Trail
The John Muir Trail is a long-distance hiking route in California renowned for its spectacular alpine scenery as it passes through Yosemite, Kings Canyon, and Sequoia National Parks.
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B.
Pacific Crest Trail
The Pacific Crest Trail is a long-distance hiking and equestrian route that runs from the Mexican border to the Canadian border through California, Oregon, and Washington along the crests of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain ranges.
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C.
Carson Pass
Carson Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s central Sierra Nevada, known for its scenic alpine landscapes, hiking trails, and historic role as a route for emigrant wagon trains.
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D.
Ebbetts Pass
Ebbetts Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, known for its scenic, winding route and historic role as a trans-Sierra crossing.
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E.
Tioga Pass
Tioga Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, best known as the eastern entrance to Yosemite National Park and one of the highest paved roads in the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hiking trail
ⓘ
mountain trail ⓘ |
| accesses | John Muir Wilderness ⓘ |
| accessRestriction | quota system ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| difficulty | strenuous ⓘ |
| elevationGain |
over 1,800 meters
ⓘ
over 6,000 feet ⓘ |
| feature |
97 switchbacks section
ⓘ
Lone Pine Lake ⓘ
linked to:
Convict Lake
Outpost Camp ⓘ Trail Camp ⓘ Trail Crest ⓘ |
| hazard |
afternoon thunderstorms
ⓘ
altitude sickness ⓘ snow and ice in shoulder seasons ⓘ |
| highestPoint |
Mount Whitney summit
ⓘ
linked to:
Mount Whitney
|
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Inyo County, California ⓘ Inyo National Forest ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| lowestPoint |
Whitney Portal
ⓘ
linked to:
Whitney Portal region
|
| managedBy | U.S. Forest Service ⓘ |
| near | Lone Pine, California ⓘ |
| notableAs | primary hiking route to the highest peak in the contiguous United States ⓘ |
| partOf | Sierra Nevada ⓘ |
| permitType |
day-use permit
ⓘ
overnight permit ⓘ |
| popularFor |
day hikes to Mount Whitney
ⓘ
overnight summit trips ⓘ |
| primaryAccessTo |
Mount Whitney summit
ⓘ
linked to:
Mount Whitney
|
| region |
eastern Sierra Nevada
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Sierra
|
| requires | permit ⓘ |
| season | typically snow-free in summer ⓘ |
| startsAt |
Whitney Portal
ⓘ
linked to:
Whitney Portal region
|
| summitElevation |
approximately 14,505 feet
ⓘ
approximately 4,421 meters ⓘ |
| surface |
dirt
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| terminatesAt | summit of Mount Whitney ⓘ |
| trailLength |
approximately 22 miles round trip
ⓘ
approximately 35 kilometers round trip ⓘ |
| usedFor |
backpacking
ⓘ
hiking ⓘ mountaineering ⓘ |
| WhitneyPortalElevation |
about 2,548 meters
ⓘ
about 8,360 feet ⓘ |
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: Mount Whitney Trail Description of subject: Mount Whitney Trail is the primary hiking route used by climbers to reach the summit of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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