Lhotse Glacier
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Lhotse Glacier is a high-altitude mountain glacier in the Himalayas, lying on the slopes of Lhotse near Mount Everest.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lhotse Glacier canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1570965 — 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: Lhotse Glacier Context triple: [Lhotse, hasGlacier, Lhotse Glacier]
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A.
Miage Glacier
Miage Glacier is a large valley glacier on the Italian side of the Mont Blanc massif, notable for its extensive debris-covered surface.
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B.
Zemu Glacier
Zemu Glacier is a major Himalayan glacier in the eastern Himalayas, renowned as one of the largest glaciers in the region and a key source of rivers draining the slopes of Kangchenjunga.
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C.
Biafo Glacier
Biafo Glacier is a major glacier in Pakistan’s Karakoram range, known for forming one of the world’s longest continuous glacier systems when linked with the Hispar Glacier.
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D.
Baltoro Glacier
Baltoro Glacier is one of the world’s largest and most famous mountain glaciers, located in Pakistan’s Karakoram range and serving as a key route to K2 and other high peaks.
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E.
Yalung Glacier
Yalung Glacier is a major Himalayan glacier on the slopes of Kangchenjunga, contributing to the mountain’s extensive glacial system and regional river sources.
- 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: Lhotse Glacier Target entity description: Lhotse Glacier is a high-altitude mountain glacier in the Himalayas, lying on the slopes of Lhotse near Mount Everest.
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A.
Miage Glacier
Miage Glacier is a large valley glacier on the Italian side of the Mont Blanc massif, notable for its extensive debris-covered surface.
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B.
Zemu Glacier
Zemu Glacier is a major Himalayan glacier in the eastern Himalayas, renowned as one of the largest glaciers in the region and a key source of rivers draining the slopes of Kangchenjunga.
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C.
Biafo Glacier
Biafo Glacier is a major glacier in Pakistan’s Karakoram range, known for forming one of the world’s longest continuous glacier systems when linked with the Hispar Glacier.
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D.
Baltoro Glacier
Baltoro Glacier is one of the world’s largest and most famous mountain glaciers, located in Pakistan’s Karakoram range and serving as a key route to K2 and other high peaks.
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E.
Yalung Glacier
Yalung Glacier is a major Himalayan glacier on the slopes of Kangchenjunga, contributing to the mountain’s extensive glacial system and regional river sources.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
glacier
ⓘ
mountain glacier ⓘ |
| associatedPeak |
Lhotse
ⓘ
Mount Everest ⓘ |
| climateZone | alpine ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Nepal ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | Himalayan glacial system ⓘ |
| elevation | high-altitude ⓘ |
| environment | high mountain environment ⓘ |
| formationProcess | accumulation and compaction of snow ⓘ |
| geomorphologicalType | valley glacier ⓘ |
| hazardType | potential source of avalanches ⓘ |
| hydrologicalRole | source of meltwater for downstream rivers ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Himalayas ⓘ |
| locatedInProtectedArea | Sagarmatha National Park ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Lhotse ⓘ |
| mountainRange | Mahalangur Himal ⓘ |
| near | Mount Everest ⓘ |
| partOf | Lhotse massif ⓘ |
| primaryComposition | snow and ice ⓘ |
| region |
Khumbu region
ⓘ
linked to:
Everest region
|
| relatedGlacier |
Imja Glacier
ⓘ
Khumbu Glacier ⓘ |
| slopeLocation | southern slopes of Lhotse ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Himalayan climate change research
ⓘ
glaciological studies ⓘ |
| surfaceType | ice ⓘ |
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: Lhotse Glacier Description of subject: Lhotse Glacier is a high-altitude mountain glacier in the Himalayas, lying on the slopes of Lhotse near Mount Everest.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
South Peak