El Capitan
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El Capitan is a massive vertical granite monolith in California’s Sierra Nevada, famed worldwide as one of the most iconic and challenging big-wall rock climbing destinations.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| El Capitan canonical | 100 |
| El Capitan rock formation | 2 |
| El Cap Spire | 1 |
| El Cap Tower | 1 |
| El Capitan (Yosemite rock formation) | 1 |
| El Capitan southwest face | 1 |
| El Capitan, Yosemite National Park | 1 |
| Southwest Face of El Capitan | 1 |
| The Nose (El Capitan) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12282 — 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: El Capitan Context triple: [Yosemite National Park, contains, El Capitan]
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A.
Half Dome
Half Dome is a famous granite rock formation in California known for its distinctive sheer face and popular but strenuous hiking and climbing routes.
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B.
Mount Whitney
Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States, located in the Sierra Nevada range of eastern California.
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C.
Moro Rock
Moro Rock is a prominent granite dome in California’s Sierra Nevada, famed for its steep stairway trail and sweeping views over Sequoia National Park and the Great Western Divide.
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D.
Carson Pass
Carson Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s central Sierra Nevada, known for its scenic alpine landscapes, hiking trails, and historic role as a route for emigrant wagon trains.
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E.
Ojos del Salado
Ojos del Salado is a massive stratovolcano in the Andes on the Argentina–Chile border, recognized as the highest active volcano in the world.
- 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: El Capitan Target entity description: El Capitan is a massive vertical granite monolith in California’s Sierra Nevada, famed worldwide as one of the most iconic and challenging big-wall rock climbing destinations.
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A.
Half Dome
Half Dome is a famous granite rock formation in California known for its distinctive sheer face and popular but strenuous hiking and climbing routes.
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B.
Mount Whitney
Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States, located in the Sierra Nevada range of eastern California.
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C.
Moro Rock
Moro Rock is a prominent granite dome in California’s Sierra Nevada, famed for its steep stairway trail and sweeping views over Sequoia National Park and the Great Western Divide.
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D.
Carson Pass
Carson Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s central Sierra Nevada, known for its scenic alpine landscapes, hiking trails, and historic role as a route for emigrant wagon trains.
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E.
Ojos del Salado
Ojos del Salado is a massive stratovolcano in the Andes on the Argentina–Chile border, recognized as the highest active volcano in the world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: El Capitan Description of subject: El Capitan is a massive vertical granite monolith in California’s Sierra Nevada, famed worldwide as one of the most iconic and challenging big-wall rock climbing destinations.
Referenced by (109)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: El Capitan