Stikine Icefield
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The Stikine Icefield is a vast glaciated region in the Coast Mountains of southeastern Alaska and northwestern British Columbia, known for its extensive network of valley glaciers and remote, rugged terrain.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stikine Icefield canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18320851 — 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: Stikine Icefield Context triple: [LeConte Glacier, locatedIn, Stikine Icefield]
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A.
Kluane Icefield
Kluane Icefield is a vast, high-altitude icefield in the St. Elias Mountains of the Yukon, known for its extensive glaciers and role in one of the world’s largest non-polar icefields.
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Columbia Icefield
Columbia Icefield is a vast glacial expanse in the Canadian Rockies, known as one of the largest icefields in North America and a major source of several important glaciers and rivers.
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C.
Homathko Icefield
Homathko Icefield is a large, remote icefield in the southern Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, known for its extensive glaciation and rugged alpine terrain.
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D.
Juneau Icefield
The Juneau Icefield is a vast expanse of interconnected glaciers and snowfields in the Coast Mountains of Alaska and British Columbia, known as one of the largest icefields in North America and a major source of glaciers around Juneau.
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E.
Northern Icefield
The Northern Icefield is one of the principal remaining ice caps atop Mount Kilimanjaro, notable for its rapidly retreating tropical glaciers.
- 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: Stikine Icefield Target entity description: The Stikine Icefield is a vast glaciated region in the Coast Mountains of southeastern Alaska and northwestern British Columbia, known for its extensive network of valley glaciers and remote, rugged terrain.
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A.
Kluane Icefield
Kluane Icefield is a vast, high-altitude icefield in the St. Elias Mountains of the Yukon, known for its extensive glaciers and role in one of the world’s largest non-polar icefields.
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B.
Columbia Icefield
Columbia Icefield is a vast glacial expanse in the Canadian Rockies, known as one of the largest icefields in North America and a major source of several important glaciers and rivers.
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C.
Homathko Icefield
Homathko Icefield is a large, remote icefield in the southern Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, known for its extensive glaciation and rugged alpine terrain.
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D.
Juneau Icefield
The Juneau Icefield is a vast expanse of interconnected glaciers and snowfields in the Coast Mountains of Alaska and British Columbia, known as one of the largest icefields in North America and a major source of glaciers around Juneau.
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E.
Northern Icefield
The Northern Icefield is one of the principal remaining ice caps atop Mount Kilimanjaro, notable for its rapidly retreating tropical glaciers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.