Big Cottonwood Canyon
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Big Cottonwood Canyon is a scenic glacially carved canyon near Salt Lake City, Utah, known for its outdoor recreation, including hiking, rock climbing, and access to major ski resorts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Big Cottonwood Canyon canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1190736 — 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: Big Cottonwood Canyon Context triple: [Wasatch Range, contains, Big Cottonwood Canyon]
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A.
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Little Cottonwood Canyon is a glacially carved canyon in Utah’s Wasatch Range known for its steep granite walls, world-class skiing at Alta and Snowbird, and popular climbing and hiking areas.
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B.
Incline Creek
Incline Creek is a mountain stream in the Lake Tahoe Basin that feeds into Lake Tahoe near Incline Village on the lake’s north shore.
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C.
Pine Creek Canyon
Pine Creek Canyon is a scenic desert canyon within Nevada’s Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, known for its towering sandstone walls, hiking trails, and popular rock climbing routes.
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D.
Lamoille Canyon
Lamoille Canyon is a scenic glacially carved valley in northeastern Nevada known for its dramatic cliffs, alpine lakes, and popular hiking and camping opportunities.
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E.
Parleys Canyon
Parleys Canyon is a major mountain pass and transportation corridor in Utah that cuts through the central Wasatch Range, connecting the Salt Lake Valley with the Park City area.
- 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: Big Cottonwood Canyon Target entity description: Big Cottonwood Canyon is a scenic glacially carved canyon near Salt Lake City, Utah, known for its outdoor recreation, including hiking, rock climbing, and access to major ski resorts.
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A.
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Little Cottonwood Canyon is a glacially carved canyon in Utah’s Wasatch Range known for its steep granite walls, world-class skiing at Alta and Snowbird, and popular climbing and hiking areas.
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B.
Incline Creek
Incline Creek is a mountain stream in the Lake Tahoe Basin that feeds into Lake Tahoe near Incline Village on the lake’s north shore.
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C.
Pine Creek Canyon
Pine Creek Canyon is a scenic desert canyon within Nevada’s Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, known for its towering sandstone walls, hiking trails, and popular rock climbing routes.
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D.
Lamoille Canyon
Lamoille Canyon is a scenic glacially carved valley in northeastern Nevada known for its dramatic cliffs, alpine lakes, and popular hiking and camping opportunities.
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E.
Parleys Canyon
Parleys Canyon is a major mountain pass and transportation corridor in Utah that cuts through the central Wasatch Range, connecting the Salt Lake Valley with the Park City area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canyon
ⓘ
glacially carved canyon ⓘ |
| accessRoad | Utah State Route 190 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| drainageOf | Big Cottonwood Creek ⓘ |
| elevationMax | over 10000 feet ⓘ |
| elevationMin | about 5000 feet ⓘ |
| hasGeologicalFeature |
glacial cirques
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granite cliffs ⓘ quartzite formations ⓘ |
| hasLake |
Lake Blanche
NERFINISHED
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Lake Florence ⓘ Lake Lillian NERFINISHED ⓘ Silver Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ Twin Lakes ⓘ |
| hasRecreationActivity |
backcountry skiing
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camping ⓘ fishing ⓘ hiking ⓘ ice climbing ⓘ mountain biking ⓘ picnicking ⓘ rock climbing ⓘ snowshoeing ⓘ |
| hasScenicByway | Big Cottonwood Canyon Road ⓘ |
| hasSkiResort |
Brighton Resort
ⓘ
Solitude Mountain Resort ⓘ |
| hasTrail |
Donut Falls Trail
ⓘ
Lake Blanche Trail ⓘ Mill B South Trail ⓘ Willow Lake Trail ⓘ |
| knownFor |
fall foliage
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rock climbing routes ⓘ scenic views ⓘ steep granite walls ⓘ wildflower displays ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Salt Lake County
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surface form:
Salt Lake County, Utah
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| locatedNear |
Salt Lake City
ⓘ
surface form:
Salt Lake City, Utah
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| managedBy | U.S. Forest Service ⓘ |
| nearbyCanyon |
Little Cottonwood Canyon
ⓘ
Millcreek Canyon ⓘ |
| partOf |
Wasatch-Cache National Forest
ⓘ
surface form:
Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest
Wasatch Range ⓘ
surface form:
Wasatch Mountains
Wasatch Range ⓘ |
| popularWith |
climbers
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hikers ⓘ skiers ⓘ snowboarders ⓘ |
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: Big Cottonwood Canyon Description of subject: Big Cottonwood Canyon is a scenic glacially carved canyon near Salt Lake City, Utah, known for its outdoor recreation, including hiking, rock climbing, and access to major ski resorts.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.