BASE jumping
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BASE jumping is an extreme sport in which participants parachute or wingsuit from fixed structures such as buildings, antennas, spans, and cliffs, experiencing a rapid freefall before deploying their canopy at low altitude.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| BASE jumping canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9764759 — 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: BASE jumping Context triple: [New River Gorge Bridge, BridgeDayActivities, BASE jumping]
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A.
Parachute Jump
Parachute Jump is a historic, decommissioned amusement ride tower on Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, often referred to as the "Eiffel Tower of Brooklyn."
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B.
Jumpers
Jumpers is a 1972 philosophical comedy play by Tom Stoppard that blends murder mystery, acrobatics, and debates on morality and the existence of God.
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C.
Jump
"Jump" is a 1984 synth-driven rock song by Van Halen that became one of the band’s biggest hits and a defining track of the 1980s.
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D.
Parachute Jump tower
The Parachute Jump tower is a historic, decommissioned amusement ride and iconic landmark on Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York.
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E.
Beam Drop
Beam Drop is a large-scale outdoor sculpture and performance artwork by Chris Burden involving the dramatic dropping of steel I-beams into wet concrete to create a chaotic vertical forest of metal.
- 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: BASE jumping Target entity description: BASE jumping is an extreme sport in which participants parachute or wingsuit from fixed structures such as buildings, antennas, spans, and cliffs, experiencing a rapid freefall before deploying their canopy at low altitude.
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A.
Parachute Jump
Parachute Jump is a historic, decommissioned amusement ride tower on Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, often referred to as the "Eiffel Tower of Brooklyn."
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B.
Jumpers
Jumpers is a 1972 philosophical comedy play by Tom Stoppard that blends murder mystery, acrobatics, and debates on morality and the existence of God.
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C.
Jump
"Jump" is a 1984 synth-driven rock song by Van Halen that became one of the band’s biggest hits and a defining track of the 1980s.
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D.
Parachute Jump tower
The Parachute Jump tower is a historic, decommissioned amusement ride and iconic landmark on Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York.
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E.
Beam Drop
Beam Drop is a large-scale outdoor sculpture and performance artwork by Chris Burden involving the dramatic dropping of steel I-beams into wet concrete to create a chaotic vertical forest of metal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (66)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
air sport
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extreme sport ⓘ parachuting discipline ⓘ |
| acronymFor | Building Antenna Span Earth ⓘ |
| hasAcronym | BASE ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
canopy flight phase
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deployment phase ⓘ freefall phase ⓘ landing phase ⓘ |
| hasKeyFeature |
high risk of serious injury or death
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jump from fixed objects ⓘ low-altitude deployment ⓘ proximity to solid objects ⓘ short freefall time ⓘ |
| hasRisk |
canopy off-heading opening
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entanglement with object ⓘ fatal impact ⓘ hard landing ⓘ line twists ⓘ object strike ⓘ parachute malfunction ⓘ water impact ⓘ |
| hasSubdiscipline |
bridge BASE jumping
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cliff BASE jumping ⓘ slider-down BASE jumping ⓘ slider-up BASE jumping ⓘ urban BASE jumping ⓘ wingsuit BASE ⓘ |
| involvesActivity |
canopy piloting
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jumping from antennas ⓘ jumping from buildings ⓘ jumping from cliffs ⓘ jumping from spans ⓘ parachute deployment ⓘ wingsuit flight ⓘ |
| isCharacterizedBy |
high fatality rate compared to other sports
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minimal altitude for emergency procedures ⓘ need for site-specific planning ⓘ often illegal or restricted at many sites ⓘ use of specialized BASE-specific gear ⓘ very low safety margins ⓘ |
| isOftenFilmedWith |
action camera
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helmet camera ⓘ |
| isOftenProhibitedAt |
national parks in some countries
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urban buildings ⓘ |
| isPracticedBy | BASE jumpers ⓘ |
| isRegulatedAs | high-risk recreational activity ⓘ |
| isRelatedTo |
cliff diving
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paragliding ⓘ skydiving ⓘ wingsuit flying ⓘ |
| requiresSkill |
body flight control
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canopy control ⓘ object avoidance ⓘ parachute packing ⓘ risk assessment ⓘ |
| typicallyRequires |
permission or covert access to objects
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prior skydiving experience ⓘ specialized training ⓘ weather assessment ⓘ |
| usesEquipment |
altimeter
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container and harness system ⓘ helmet ⓘ parachute ⓘ single-parachute system ⓘ wingsuit ⓘ |
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: BASE jumping Description of subject: BASE jumping is an extreme sport in which participants parachute or wingsuit from fixed structures such as buildings, antennas, spans, and cliffs, experiencing a rapid freefall before deploying their canopy at low altitude.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.