Ice Blast
E179931
Ice Blast is a high-thrill drop tower ride located at the Blackpool Pleasure Beach amusement park in England.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ice Blast canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1579690 — 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: Ice Blast Context triple: [Blackpool Pleasure Beach, hasAttraction, Ice Blast]
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A.
Thunder Snow
Thunder Snow is a prominent Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning back-to-back Dubai World Cups in 2018 and 2019.
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B.
Battle on the Ice
Battle on the Ice was a 1242 military engagement on the frozen Lake Peipus in which Alexander Nevsky’s forces decisively defeated the Teutonic Knights, halting their eastward expansion.
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C.
Blitz
The Blitz was the sustained German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, particularly London, during 1940–1941 in World War II.
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D.
Frost
Frost is the middle name of George F. Kennan, the influential American diplomat and historian known for shaping the U.S. Cold War containment strategy.
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E.
Frost
Frost is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals, including the American poet Robert Frost.
- 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: Ice Blast Target entity description: Ice Blast is a high-thrill drop tower ride located at the Blackpool Pleasure Beach amusement park in England.
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A.
Thunder Snow
Thunder Snow is a prominent Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning back-to-back Dubai World Cups in 2018 and 2019.
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B.
Battle on the Ice
Battle on the Ice was a 1242 military engagement on the frozen Lake Peipus in which Alexander Nevsky’s forces decisively defeated the Teutonic Knights, halting their eastward expansion.
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C.
Blitz
The Blitz was the sustained German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, particularly London, during 1940–1941 in World War II.
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D.
Frost
Frost is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals, including the American poet Robert Frost.
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E.
Frost
Frost is the middle name of George F. Kennan, the influential American diplomat and historian known for shaping the U.S. Cold War containment strategy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
amusement ride
ⓘ
drop tower ride ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| designer | S&S Worldwide ⓘ |
| dropHeight |
161 ft
ⓘ
49 m ⓘ |
| height |
183 ft
ⓘ
57 m ⓘ |
| inversions | 0 ⓘ |
| liftMechanism | compressed air launch ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Blackpool
ⓘ
Blackpool Pleasure Beach ⓘ England ⓘ Lancashire ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| manufacturer | S&S Worldwide ⓘ |
| maxSpeed |
50 mph
ⓘ
80 km/h ⓘ |
| notableFeature | one of the first S&S Space Shot towers in the UK ⓘ |
| numberOfTowers | 1 ⓘ |
| numberOfVehicles | 1 ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1997-06-01 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Blackpool Pleasure Beach ⓘ |
| parkOwner |
Blackpool Pleasure Beach Ltd
ⓘ
linked to:
Blackpool Pleasure Beach
|
| parkSection | South Park ⓘ |
| previousName | PlayStation The Ride ⓘ |
| restraintType | over-the-shoulder restraints ⓘ |
| rideCategory | tower ride ⓘ |
| rideModel | Turbo Drop/Space Shot combo variant ⓘ |
| rideType | Space Shot ⓘ |
| seatsPerVehicle | 16 ⓘ |
| sponsor |
Sony PlayStation
ⓘ
linked to:
PlayStation
|
| sponsorFrom | 1997 ⓘ |
| sponsorTo | 2002 ⓘ |
| status | operating ⓘ |
| theme | ice ⓘ |
| thrillLevel | high-thrill ⓘ |
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: Ice Blast Description of subject: Ice Blast is a high-thrill drop tower ride located at the Blackpool Pleasure Beach amusement park in England.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.