Great Western Divide
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The Great Western Divide is a prominent subrange of California’s Sierra Nevada, known for its rugged peaks and dramatic alpine scenery.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Great Western Divide canonical | 40 |
| Great Western Divide crest | 2 |
| Great Western Divide subrange | 2 |
| Kings–Kern Divide | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T232489 — 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 Western Divide Context triple: [Moro Rock, offersViewOf, Great Western Divide]
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Walker River
Walker River is a river in eastern California and western Nevada that flows from the Sierra Nevada through arid valleys into Walker Lake, providing vital water for ecosystems and agriculture in the region.
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Diablo Range
Diablo Range is a long, rugged mountain range in central California known for its chaparral-covered hills, diverse wildlife, and role as a natural barrier between the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Valley.
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California Trail
The California Trail was a major 19th-century overland wagon route that carried hundreds of thousands of emigrants westward to California, especially during the California Gold Rush.
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High Sierra Trail
The High Sierra Trail is a renowned long-distance hiking route in California’s Sierra Nevada that traverses dramatic alpine terrain from the western side of the range to Mount Whitney.
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Mojave River
The Mojave River is an intermittent river in the Mojave Desert of California that mostly flows underground and provides a crucial water source for the region’s arid ecosystems and communities.
- 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 Western Divide Target entity description: The Great Western Divide is a prominent subrange of California’s Sierra Nevada, known for its rugged peaks and dramatic alpine scenery.
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A.
Walker River
Walker River is a river in eastern California and western Nevada that flows from the Sierra Nevada through arid valleys into Walker Lake, providing vital water for ecosystems and agriculture in the region.
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B.
Diablo Range
Diablo Range is a long, rugged mountain range in central California known for its chaparral-covered hills, diverse wildlife, and role as a natural barrier between the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Valley.
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C.
California Trail
The California Trail was a major 19th-century overland wagon route that carried hundreds of thousands of emigrants westward to California, especially during the California Gold Rush.
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D.
High Sierra Trail
The High Sierra Trail is a renowned long-distance hiking route in California’s Sierra Nevada that traverses dramatic alpine terrain from the western side of the range to Mount Whitney.
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E.
Mojave River
The Mojave River is an intermittent river in the Mojave Desert of California that mostly flows underground and provides a crucial water source for the region’s arid ecosystems and communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
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: Great Western Divide Description of subject: The Great Western Divide is a prominent subrange of California’s Sierra Nevada, known for its rugged peaks and dramatic alpine scenery.
Referenced by (45)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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