Yosemite Falls
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Yosemite Falls is one of North America’s tallest and most famous waterfalls, cascading dramatically over granite cliffs in California’s Sierra Nevada.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yosemite Falls canonical | 51 |
| Upper Yosemite Fall | 6 |
| Lower Yosemite Fall | 1 |
| Middle Cascades of Yosemite Falls | 1 |
| Yosemite Falls cliff | 1 |
| Yosemite Falls waterfall system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12289 — 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: Yosemite Falls Context triple: [Yosemite National Park, contains, Yosemite Falls]
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Vernal Fall
Vernal Fall is a prominent and picturesque waterfall on the Merced River in Yosemite National Park, renowned for its powerful flow and popular hiking access via the Mist Trail.
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Bridalveil Fall
Bridalveil Fall is a famous, picturesque waterfall in California’s Yosemite Valley known for its year-round flow and mist that often creates striking rainbows.
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Nevada Fall
Nevada Fall is a prominent and picturesque waterfall on the Merced River in Yosemite National Park, known for its powerful drop and dramatic granite surroundings.
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El Capitan
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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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.
- 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: Yosemite Falls Target entity description: Yosemite Falls is one of North America’s tallest and most famous waterfalls, cascading dramatically over granite cliffs in California’s Sierra Nevada.
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A.
Vernal Fall
Vernal Fall is a prominent and picturesque waterfall on the Merced River in Yosemite National Park, renowned for its powerful flow and popular hiking access via the Mist Trail.
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B.
Bridalveil Fall
Bridalveil Fall is a famous, picturesque waterfall in California’s Yosemite Valley known for its year-round flow and mist that often creates striking rainbows.
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C.
Nevada Fall
Nevada Fall is a prominent and picturesque waterfall on the Merced River in Yosemite National Park, known for its powerful drop and dramatic granite surroundings.
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D.
El Capitan
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Yosemite Falls Description of subject: Yosemite Falls is one of North America’s tallest and most famous waterfalls, cascading dramatically over granite cliffs in California’s Sierra Nevada.
Referenced by (61)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Northside Drive in Yosemite Valley
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Southside Drive in Yosemite Valley