Great Ice Barrier
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The Great Ice Barrier is the historical name used by early Antarctic explorers for the vast Ross Ice Shelf, a massive floating platform of glacial ice fringing the Ross Sea.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Great Ice Barrier canonical | 1 |
| Ross Ice Barrier | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23363499 — 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: Great Ice Barrier Context triple: [The Barrier, alsoKnownAs, Great Ice Barrier]
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A.
Leningrad Ice Cap
Leningrad Ice Cap is a large polar ice cap covering much of October Revolution Island in the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago of the Russian Arctic.
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B.
Wordie Ice Shelf
Wordie Ice Shelf is a former Antarctic ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula’s west coast that became notable for its rapid disintegration in the late 20th century, often cited as evidence of regional climate warming.
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C.
Eismeer glacier
Eismeer glacier is a high-altitude Alpine glacier in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, known for its dramatic ice landscape visible from the Jungfrau region’s mountain railway.
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D.
Malaspina Glacier
Malaspina Glacier is a massive piedmont glacier in southeastern Alaska, known for its broad, fan-shaped spread where it flows out of the Saint Elias Mountains toward the Gulf of Alaska.
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E.
Svartisen ice cap
The Svartisen ice cap is one of Norway's largest glacier systems, known for its striking blue ice and accessibility along the Helgeland coast in Nordland.
- 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: Great Ice Barrier Target entity description: The Great Ice Barrier is the historical name used by early Antarctic explorers for the vast Ross Ice Shelf, a massive floating platform of glacial ice fringing the Ross Sea.
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A.
Leningrad Ice Cap
Leningrad Ice Cap is a large polar ice cap covering much of October Revolution Island in the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago of the Russian Arctic.
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B.
Wordie Ice Shelf
Wordie Ice Shelf is a former Antarctic ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula’s west coast that became notable for its rapid disintegration in the late 20th century, often cited as evidence of regional climate warming.
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C.
Eismeer glacier
Eismeer glacier is a high-altitude Alpine glacier in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, known for its dramatic ice landscape visible from the Jungfrau region’s mountain railway.
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D.
Malaspina Glacier
Malaspina Glacier is a massive piedmont glacier in southeastern Alaska, known for its broad, fan-shaped spread where it flows out of the Saint Elias Mountains toward the Gulf of Alaska.
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E.
Svartisen ice cap
The Svartisen ice cap is one of Norway's largest glacier systems, known for its striking blue ice and accessibility along the Helgeland coast in Nordland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Great Ice Barrier