Kokanee Glacier
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Kokanee Glacier is a prominent alpine glacier in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, known for its rugged mountain scenery and year-round snow and ice.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kokanee Glacier canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5728191 — 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: Kokanee Glacier Context triple: [Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park, hasFeature, Kokanee Glacier]
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A.
White Salmon Glacier
White Salmon Glacier is a prominent glacier on the slopes of Mount Adams in Washington State, known for its alpine ice and role in feeding local watersheds.
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B.
Whitewater Glacier
Whitewater Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of Mount Jefferson in the Cascade Range of Oregon.
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C.
Comox Glacier
Comox Glacier is a prominent icefield and mountain landmark on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, popular for hiking, mountaineering, and scenic views.
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D.
Jeffers Glacier
Jeffers Glacier is a mountain glacier located on Mount Olympus in Washington State’s Olympic Mountains.
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E.
Newton Clark Glacier
Newton Clark Glacier is a prominent alpine glacier on the eastern slopes of Mount Hood in Oregon, known for its crevassed terrain and challenging mountaineering routes.
- 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: Kokanee Glacier Target entity description: Kokanee Glacier is a prominent alpine glacier in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, known for its rugged mountain scenery and year-round snow and ice.
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A.
White Salmon Glacier
White Salmon Glacier is a prominent glacier on the slopes of Mount Adams in Washington State, known for its alpine ice and role in feeding local watersheds.
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B.
Whitewater Glacier
Whitewater Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of Mount Jefferson in the Cascade Range of Oregon.
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C.
Comox Glacier
Comox Glacier is a prominent icefield and mountain landmark on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, popular for hiking, mountaineering, and scenic views.
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D.
Jeffers Glacier
Jeffers Glacier is a mountain glacier located on Mount Olympus in Washington State’s Olympic Mountains.
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E.
Newton Clark Glacier
Newton Clark Glacier is a prominent alpine glacier on the eastern slopes of Mount Hood in Oregon, known for its crevassed terrain and challenging mountaineering routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | glacier ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| drainsInto |
Kootenay River watershed
ⓘ
linked to:
Kootenay River
|
| feeds |
alpine lakes
ⓘ
mountain streams ⓘ |
| governedBy | BC Parks ⓘ |
| hasClimate |
alpine climate
ⓘ
subalpine climate ⓘ |
| hasEcosystem |
alpine tundra at higher elevations
ⓘ
subalpine forest at lower elevations ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
cirque terrain
ⓘ
crevasses ⓘ icefalls ⓘ rugged mountain scenery ⓘ year-round ice ⓘ year-round snow ⓘ |
| hasHazard |
avalanche risk
ⓘ
crevasse falls ⓘ rapidly changing mountain weather ⓘ |
| hasRecreationFacility |
backcountry huts
ⓘ
mountain cabins ⓘ |
| hasSnowCover | perennial ⓘ |
| isAccessibleBy |
backcountry routes
ⓘ
hiking trails ⓘ |
| isProtected | true ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf |
backcountry skiing guidebooks
ⓘ
mountaineering guidebooks ⓘ |
| isTouristAttraction | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
British Columbia
ⓘ
southeastern British Columbia ⓘ |
| locatedInMountainRange | Selkirk Mountains ⓘ |
| locatedInProtectedArea | Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Nelson, British Columbia ⓘ |
| nearbyCity | Nelson, British Columbia ⓘ |
| nearbyCommunity | Kokanee Creek ⓘ |
| province | British Columbia ⓘ |
| region | West Kootenay ⓘ |
| usedFor |
backcountry skiing
ⓘ
glacier travel training ⓘ hiking access in summer ⓘ ice climbing ⓘ mountaineering ⓘ snowboarding ⓘ |
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: Kokanee Glacier Description of subject: Kokanee Glacier is a prominent alpine glacier in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, known for its rugged mountain scenery and year-round snow and ice.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.