K2
E9638
K2 is the world’s second-highest mountain, a notoriously difficult and dangerous peak in the Karakoram range of the Himalayas.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| K2 canonical | 129 |
| Abruzzi Spur (K2) | 1 |
| K2 (from nearby areas) | 1 |
| K2 massif | 1 |
| K2 summit | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T81978 — 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: K2 Context triple: [Pakistan, highestPeak, K2]
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A.
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.
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B.
Hindu Kush
The Hindu Kush is a major mountain range in Central and South Asia, forming a rugged extension of the Himalayas and serving as a historic crossroads between the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East.
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C.
Mount Elbrus
Mount Elbrus is a dormant stratovolcano in the Caucasus Mountains of Russia and the highest peak on the European continent.
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D.
Himalayas
The Himalayas are a vast mountain range in Asia, home to many of the world’s highest peaks including Mount Everest, and form a natural barrier between the Indian subcontinent and the Tibetan Plateau.
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E.
Gran Glaciar Norte
Gran Glaciar Norte is the largest and most prominent glacier on Mexico’s Pico de Orizaba volcano, forming a major part of its high-altitude ice cap.
- 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: K2 Target entity description: 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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A.
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.
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B.
Hindu Kush
The Hindu Kush is a major mountain range in Central and South Asia, forming a rugged extension of the Himalayas and serving as a historic crossroads between the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East.
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C.
Mount Elbrus
Mount Elbrus is a dormant stratovolcano in the Caucasus Mountains of Russia and the highest peak on the European continent.
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D.
Himalayas
The Himalayas are a vast mountain range in Asia, home to many of the world’s highest peaks including Mount Everest, and form a natural barrier between the Indian subcontinent and the Tibetan Plateau.
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E.
Gran Glaciar Norte
Gran Glaciar Norte is the largest and most prominent glacier on Mexico’s Pico de Orizaba volcano, forming a major part of its high-altitude ice cap.
- 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: K2 Description of subject: K2 is the world’s second-highest mountain, a notoriously difficult and dangerous peak in the Karakoram range of the Himalayas.
Referenced by (133)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Savage Mountain
subject linked to:
northern Pakistan
subject linked to:
Lacedelli
linked to: K2
subject linked to:
Concordia