Cotopaxi (volcano)
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Cotopaxi (volcano) is a highly active stratovolcano in the Andes of central Ecuador, renowned for its near-symmetrical cone and status as one of the world’s highest volcanoes.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cotopaxi | 11 |
| Cotopaxi volcano | 8 |
| Cotopaxi (volcano) canonical | 1 |
| Cotopaxi Volcano | 1 |
| Cotopaxi is an active volcano within the park | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1013208 — 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: Cotopaxi (volcano) Context triple: [Cotopaxi (painting), depicts, Cotopaxi (volcano)]
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Cotopaxi
Cotopaxi is a famous 1862 landscape painting by Frederic Edwin Church depicting the dramatic eruption of the Ecuadorian volcano Cotopaxi.
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El Misti volcano
El Misti volcano is a prominent stratovolcano overlooking the city of Arequipa in southern Peru, known for its symmetrical cone and historical eruptions within the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes.
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Licancabur volcano
Licancabur volcano is a prominent, near-symmetrical stratovolcano on the Chile–Bolivia border, famed for its high-altitude crater lake and significance in Andean geology and local indigenous culture.
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Sabancaya volcano
Sabancaya volcano is an active stratovolcano in southern Peru’s Andes, known for frequent explosive eruptions and significant ash emissions.
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Nevado San Francisco
Nevado San Francisco is a high Andean stratovolcano on the Argentina–Chile border, known for its towering elevation and location within the arid Puna de Atacama region.
- 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: Cotopaxi (volcano) Target entity description: Cotopaxi (volcano) is a highly active stratovolcano in the Andes of central Ecuador, renowned for its near-symmetrical cone and status as one of the world’s highest volcanoes.
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A.
Cotopaxi
Cotopaxi is a famous 1862 landscape painting by Frederic Edwin Church depicting the dramatic eruption of the Ecuadorian volcano Cotopaxi.
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B.
El Misti volcano
El Misti volcano is a prominent stratovolcano overlooking the city of Arequipa in southern Peru, known for its symmetrical cone and historical eruptions within the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes.
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C.
Licancabur volcano
Licancabur volcano is a prominent, near-symmetrical stratovolcano on the Chile–Bolivia border, famed for its high-altitude crater lake and significance in Andean geology and local indigenous culture.
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D.
Sabancaya volcano
Sabancaya volcano is an active stratovolcano in southern Peru’s Andes, known for frequent explosive eruptions and significant ash emissions.
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E.
Nevado San Francisco
Nevado San Francisco is a high Andean stratovolcano on the Argentina–Chile border, known for its towering elevation and location within the arid Puna de Atacama region.
- 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: Cotopaxi (volcano) Description of subject: Cotopaxi (volcano) is a highly active stratovolcano in the Andes of central Ecuador, renowned for its near-symmetrical cone and status as one of the world’s highest volcanoes.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Cotopaxi
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Cotopaxi Volcano
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Cotopaxi
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Cordillera Occidental (Ecuador)
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Cotopaxi
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Cotopaxi
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Cotopaxi volcano
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Cotopaxi volcano
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Cotopaxi
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Cotopaxi volcano
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Cotopaxi is an active volcano within the park
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Cotopaxi
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Cotopaxi volcano
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Cotopaxi volcano
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Cotopaxi volcano
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Cotopaxi
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Cotopaxi volcano
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Cotopaxi
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Cotopaxi
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Cotopaxi