Makalu
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Makalu is the fifth-highest mountain in the world, a prominent 8,485-meter peak on the border between Nepal and China known for its steep faces and challenging climbing routes.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Makalu canonical | 47 |
| Mount Makalu | 12 |
| Makalu (8463 m) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T247215 — 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: Makalu Context triple: [Himalayas, contains, Makalu]
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A.
Kangchenjunga
Kangchenjunga is the world’s third-highest mountain, a massive peak in the eastern Himalayas on the border between Nepal and India.
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B.
Lhotse
Lhotse is the world’s fourth-highest mountain, located near Mount Everest in the Himalayas on the border between Nepal and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
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C.
Mount Everest
Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Himalayas on the border between Nepal and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
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D.
K2
K2 is the world’s second-highest mountain, a notoriously difficult and dangerous peak in the Karakoram range of the Himalayas.
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E.
Karakoram
Karakoram is a major mountain range in Central and South Asia, home to some of the world’s highest peaks including K2 and extensive glaciers.
- 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: Makalu Target entity description: Makalu is the fifth-highest mountain in the world, a prominent 8,485-meter peak on the border between Nepal and China known for its steep faces and challenging climbing routes.
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A.
Kangchenjunga
Kangchenjunga is the world’s third-highest mountain, a massive peak in the eastern Himalayas on the border between Nepal and India.
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B.
Lhotse
Lhotse is the world’s fourth-highest mountain, located near Mount Everest in the Himalayas on the border between Nepal and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
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C.
Mount Everest
Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Himalayas on the border between Nepal and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
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D.
K2
K2 is the world’s second-highest mountain, a notoriously difficult and dangerous peak in the Karakoram range of the Himalayas.
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E.
Karakoram
Karakoram is a major mountain range in Central and South Asia, home to some of the world’s highest peaks including K2 and extensive glaciers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Makalu Description of subject: Makalu is the fifth-highest mountain in the world, a prominent 8,485-meter peak on the border between Nepal and China known for its steep faces and challenging climbing routes.
Referenced by (60)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Jean Franco
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subject linked to:
eastern Nepal
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