Avalanche Glacier
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Avalanche Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of Mount Adams in Washington State, known for its steep terrain and active ice movement.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Avalanche Glacier canonical | 2 |
| Avalanche Glacier (Mount Adams) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1512343 — 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: Avalanche Glacier Context triple: [Mount Adams, hasGlacier, Avalanche Glacier]
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A.
Emmons Glacier
Emmons Glacier is the largest glacier by area in the contiguous United States, flowing down the eastern flank of Mount Rainier in Washington State.
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B.
Portage Glacier
Portage Glacier is a prominent valley glacier in Alaska known for its scenic lake, visitor center, and accessibility from the Anchorage area.
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C.
Watkins Glacier
Watkins Glacier is one of the alpine glaciers on Mount Shasta in northern California, contributing to the mountain’s perennial ice and snow cover.
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D.
Squaw Glacier
Squaw Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of the Three Sisters volcanic peaks in the Cascade Range of Oregon.
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E.
Carver Glacier
Carver Glacier is a small mountain glacier located on the slopes of the Three Sisters volcanic peaks in the Cascade Range of Oregon.
- 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: Avalanche Glacier Target entity description: Avalanche Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of Mount Adams in Washington State, known for its steep terrain and active ice movement.
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A.
Emmons Glacier
Emmons Glacier is the largest glacier by area in the contiguous United States, flowing down the eastern flank of Mount Rainier in Washington State.
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B.
Portage Glacier
Portage Glacier is a prominent valley glacier in Alaska known for its scenic lake, visitor center, and accessibility from the Anchorage area.
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C.
Watkins Glacier
Watkins Glacier is one of the alpine glaciers on Mount Shasta in northern California, contributing to the mountain’s perennial ice and snow cover.
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D.
Squaw Glacier
Squaw Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of the Three Sisters volcanic peaks in the Cascade Range of Oregon.
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E.
Carver Glacier
Carver Glacier is a small mountain glacier located on the slopes of the Three Sisters volcanic peaks in the Cascade Range of Oregon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
glacier
ⓘ
mountain glacier ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| drainageBasin | watersheds surrounding Mount Adams ⓘ |
| environmentalSetting | high-elevation volcanic peak ⓘ |
| hasDynamicCharacteristic | active ice movement ⓘ |
| hasGeologicalType | alpine glacier ⓘ |
| hasHazard |
avalanches
ⓘ
crevasses ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryComposition | ice ⓘ |
| hasProcess |
glacial flow
ⓘ
ice ablation ⓘ ice accumulation ⓘ |
| hasSlopeCharacteristic | steep icefall sections ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceFeature | crevassed ice ⓘ |
| hasTerrainCharacteristic | steep terrain ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWithVolcano | Mount Adams ⓘ |
| isOnFlankOf | Mount Adams ⓘ |
| isPartOf | glacial system of Mount Adams ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | glaciological observation ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cascade Range
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Washington State ⓘ
linked to:
Washington
|
| locatedOn | Mount Adams ⓘ |
| mountainRange | Cascade Range ⓘ |
| namedAfter | avalanche ⓘ |
| region | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
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: Avalanche Glacier Description of subject: Avalanche Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of Mount Adams in Washington State, known for its steep terrain and active ice movement.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Avalanche Glacier