Col de l’Échelle
E32514
Col de l’Échelle is a high mountain pass in the Alps that provides a key road link between France and Italy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Col de l’Échelle canonical | 2 |
| Col de l’Échelle (French) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T238757 — 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: Col de l’Échelle Context triple: [French–Italian border, crosses, Col de l’Échelle]
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A.
Col du Mont Cenis
Col du Mont Cenis is a high mountain pass in the Alps that historically served as a key transalpine route between France and Italy.
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B.
Aiguille du Midi
Aiguille du Midi is a prominent peak in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps, famous for its cable car access from Chamonix and panoramic viewing platforms over the surrounding mountains.
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C.
Mont Blanc du Tacul
Mont Blanc du Tacul is a prominent 4,248-meter peak in the Mont Blanc massif of the French Alps, popular with mountaineers as part of the classic route to Mont Blanc.
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D.
Dôme du Goûter
Dôme du Goûter is a prominent snow-covered summit in the Mont Blanc massif of the French Alps, often used as a key staging point on the normal route to Mont Blanc’s main peak.
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E.
Chamonix
Chamonix is a renowned French alpine town and ski resort in the Haute-Savoie region, famous for its dramatic mountain scenery and mountaineering history.
- 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: Col de l’Échelle Target entity description: Col de l’Échelle is a high mountain pass in the Alps that provides a key road link between France and Italy.
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A.
Col du Mont Cenis
Col du Mont Cenis is a high mountain pass in the Alps that historically served as a key transalpine route between France and Italy.
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B.
Aiguille du Midi
Aiguille du Midi is a prominent peak in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps, famous for its cable car access from Chamonix and panoramic viewing platforms over the surrounding mountains.
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C.
Mont Blanc du Tacul
Mont Blanc du Tacul is a prominent 4,248-meter peak in the Mont Blanc massif of the French Alps, popular with mountaineers as part of the classic route to Mont Blanc.
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D.
Dôme du Goûter
Dôme du Goûter is a prominent snow-covered summit in the Mont Blanc massif of the French Alps, often used as a key staging point on the normal route to Mont Blanc’s main peak.
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E.
Chamonix
Chamonix is a renowned French alpine town and ski resort in the Haute-Savoie region, famous for its dramatic mountain scenery and mountaineering history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mountain pass
ⓘ
transport infrastructure ⓘ |
| accessibleBy | motor vehicles ⓘ |
| category |
France–Italy border crossings
ⓘ
linked to:
French–Italian border
Mountain passes of the Alps ⓘ |
| connects |
France
ⓘ
Italy ⓘ |
| countryBorder |
France
ⓘ
Italy ⓘ |
| hasClimate | alpine climate ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
alpine landscape
ⓘ
high altitude ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | French ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage |
Col de l’Échelle (French)
ⓘ
linked to:
Col de l’Échelle
|
| isInContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alps
ⓘ
France ⓘ Italy ⓘ |
| mountainRange | Alps ⓘ |
| partOf | French–Italian border region ⓘ |
| roadType | mountain road ⓘ |
| terrain | mountainous ⓘ |
| transportFunction | key road link between France and Italy ⓘ |
| usedBy |
local traffic
ⓘ
tourists ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cross-border traffic
ⓘ
road transport ⓘ |
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: Col de l’Échelle Description of subject: Col de l’Échelle is a high mountain pass in the Alps that provides a key road link between France and Italy.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Col de l’Échelle