Mauna Loa
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Mauna Loa is one of the world’s largest and most active shield volcanoes, dominating much of Hawaii’s Big Island.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mauna Loa canonical | 38 |
| Mauna Loa volcano | 2 |
| Mauna Loa (Hawaiian) | 1 |
| Mauna Loa Summit | 1 |
| Mauna Loa slopes | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T145591 — 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: Mauna Loa Context triple: [Hawaii, hasVolcano, Mauna Loa]
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A.
Mauna Kea
Mauna Kea is a dormant volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island renowned both as the state’s tallest mountain and as one of the world’s premier sites for astronomical observatories.
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B.
Newberry Volcano
Newberry Volcano is a large shield-shaped volcanic complex in central Oregon known for its expansive caldera, numerous lava flows and cinder cones, and active geothermal features.
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C.
Maui
Maui is a major Hawaiian island renowned for its scenic beaches, volcanic landscapes, and rich native Hawaiian culture.
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D.
Oahu
Oahu is a major Hawaiian island known for its capital city Honolulu, iconic Waikiki Beach, and significant World War II history.
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E.
Mount St. Helens
Mount St. Helens is an active stratovolcano in Washington State, USA, best known for its catastrophic 1980 eruption that dramatically reshaped its summit and surrounding landscape.
- 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: Mauna Loa Target entity description: Mauna Loa is one of the world’s largest and most active shield volcanoes, dominating much of Hawaii’s Big Island.
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A.
Mauna Kea
Mauna Kea is a dormant volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island renowned both as the state’s tallest mountain and as one of the world’s premier sites for astronomical observatories.
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B.
Newberry Volcano
Newberry Volcano is a large shield-shaped volcanic complex in central Oregon known for its expansive caldera, numerous lava flows and cinder cones, and active geothermal features.
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C.
Maui
Maui is a major Hawaiian island renowned for its scenic beaches, volcanic landscapes, and rich native Hawaiian culture.
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D.
Oahu
Oahu is a major Hawaiian island known for its capital city Honolulu, iconic Waikiki Beach, and significant World War II history.
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E.
Mount St. Helens
Mount St. Helens is an active stratovolcano in Washington State, USA, best known for its catastrophic 1980 eruption that dramatically reshaped its summit and surrounding landscape.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hawaiian volcano
ⓘ
active volcano ⓘ shield volcano ⓘ stratovolcano complex ⓘ |
| age | about 700,000 years ⓘ |
| approxVolume | about 75,000 km³ ⓘ |
| composition | tholeiitic basalt ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| coversArea | over half of Island of Hawaiʻi ⓘ |
| elevation |
13678 ft
ⓘ
4169 m ⓘ |
| eruptionStyle |
Hawaiian
ⓘ
effusive ⓘ |
| fedBy | Hawaii hotspot ⓘ |
| firstRecordedEruption | 1843 ⓘ |
| geologicalAge | Pleistocene to Holocene ⓘ |
| governedBy |
State of Hawaiʻi
ⓘ
linked to:
Hawaii
|
| hasCrater | Mokuʻāweoweo caldera ⓘ |
| hasEruptionFrequency | every few decades in historical time ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
Mauna Loa Observatory
ⓘ
linked to:
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
|
| hasFeature |
Northeast Rift Zone
ⓘ
Southwest Rift Zone ⓘ radial rift zones ⓘ summit caldera ⓘ |
| hasHazard |
ground deformation
ⓘ
lava flows ⓘ tephra fall ⓘ volcanic gas emissions ⓘ |
| hasProtectedArea |
Mauna Loa Forest Reserve
ⓘ
linked to:
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
|
| isHigherThan |
Mauna Kea’s base-to-summit height when measured by volume
ⓘ
Mount Rainier ⓘ |
| isImportantFor | global climate and CO₂ measurements ⓘ |
| isLargestBy |
subaerial area among Earth’s volcanoes
ⓘ
volume among Earth’s volcanoes ⓘ |
| isOneOf | most active volcanoes on Earth ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hawaiian ⓘ |
| lastEruption | 2022 ⓘ |
| lastEruptionEndDate | 2022-12-13 ⓘ |
| lastEruptionStartDate | 2022-11-27 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hawaiʻi
ⓘ
linked to:
Hawaiʻi (island)
Island of Hawaiʻi ⓘ
linked to:
Hawaiʻi (island)
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locatedNear |
Hilo, Hawaiʻi
ⓘ
linked to:
Hilo
Kona coast ⓘ
linked to:
Kailua-Kona
Kīlauea ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain ⓘ |
| locatedOnPlate | Pacific Plate ⓘ |
| monitoredBy |
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
ⓘ
U.S. Geological Survey ⓘ
linked to:
United States Geological Survey
|
| nameMeaning | Long Mountain ⓘ |
| nativeName | Mauna Loa ⓘ |
| observatoryTypeAtSummit | atmospheric monitoring station ⓘ |
| partOf |
Hawaiian Islands
ⓘ
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park ⓘ |
| prominence | 2161 m ⓘ |
| tectonicSetting | intraplate hotspot volcano ⓘ |
| topographicIsolation | about 102 km ⓘ |
| tourismActivity |
hiking
ⓘ
volcano viewing ⓘ |
| typicalLavaType |
pāhoehoe lava
ⓘ
ʻāā lava ⓘ |
| volcanicArcOrBelt | Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain ⓘ |
| volcanoType | shield volcano ⓘ |
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: Mauna Loa Description of subject: Mauna Loa is one of the world’s largest and most active shield volcanoes, dominating much of Hawaii’s Big Island.
Referenced by (43)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mauna Loa
linked to: Mauna Loa
subject linked to:
Long Mountain
linked to: Mauna Loa
subject linked to:
Waimea
subject linked to:
White Mountain
linked to: Mauna Loa
subject linked to:
Hualālai volcano
linked to: Mauna Loa