Carbon Glacier
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Carbon Glacier is a major valley glacier on the north slope of Mount Rainier in Washington, notable for its great thickness and low terminus elevation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Carbon Glacier canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1413165 — 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: Carbon Glacier Context triple: [Mount Rainier, hasGlacier, Carbon Glacier]
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A.
Neve
Neve is one of the official mascots of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, depicted as a stylized snowball symbolizing winter sports and the spirit of the Games.
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B.
Kalaloch
Kalaloch is a coastal area on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula known for its rugged beaches, scenic ocean views, and proximity to Olympic National Park.
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C.
Hotlum Glacier
Hotlum Glacier is a prominent mountain glacier on the northeastern flank of Mount Shasta in California, known as one of the mountain’s largest and most active ice masses.
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D.
Tokositna Glacier
Tokositna Glacier is a major valley glacier in the Alaska Range known for its dramatic ice flows and surrounding rugged mountain scenery.
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E.
San Quintín Glacier
San Quintín Glacier is one of the largest outlet glaciers of Chile’s Northern Patagonian Ice Field, known for its extensive ice cover and significant contribution to regional glacial meltwater.
- 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: Carbon Glacier Target entity description: Carbon Glacier is a major valley glacier on the north slope of Mount Rainier in Washington, notable for its great thickness and low terminus elevation.
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A.
Neve
Neve is one of the official mascots of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, depicted as a stylized snowball symbolizing winter sports and the spirit of the Games.
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B.
Kalaloch
Kalaloch is a coastal area on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula known for its rugged beaches, scenic ocean views, and proximity to Olympic National Park.
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C.
Hotlum Glacier
Hotlum Glacier is a prominent mountain glacier on the northeastern flank of Mount Shasta in California, known as one of the mountain’s largest and most active ice masses.
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D.
Tokositna Glacier
Tokositna Glacier is a major valley glacier in the Alaska Range known for its dramatic ice flows and surrounding rugged mountain scenery.
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E.
San Quintín Glacier
San Quintín Glacier is one of the largest outlet glaciers of Chile’s Northern Patagonian Ice Field, known for its extensive ice cover and significant contribution to regional glacial meltwater.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
glacier
ⓘ
valley glacier ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| drainsFrom | Mount Rainier ⓘ |
| feedsRiver | Carbon River ⓘ |
| flowsInto |
Carbon River
ⓘ
surface form:
Carbon River valley
|
| geologicalProvince | Cascade Volcanic Arc ⓘ |
| hasAccessTrail |
Carbon River trail
ⓘ
Wonderland Trail ⓘ |
| hasLowestTerminusAmong | major glaciers on Mount Rainier ⓘ |
| hasOrientation | generally northward ⓘ |
| hasStatus | retreating glacier ⓘ |
| hasTerminusElevation |
approximately 1100 meters above sea level
ⓘ
approximately 3600 feet above sea level ⓘ |
| hasThickness | one of the thickest glaciers in the contiguous United States ⓘ |
| hasType | temperate glacier ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Cascade Range glaciers
ⓘ
surface form:
Cascade Range glacial system
|
| locatedIn |
Mount Rainier National Park
ⓘ
Pierce County ⓘ
surface form:
Pierce County, Washington
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Washington (state)
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| locatedOn | Mount Rainier ⓘ |
| locatedOnSlopeOf | north slope of Mount Rainier ⓘ |
| mountainRange | Cascade Range ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Carbon River ⓘ |
| notableFor |
great ice thickness
ⓘ
low terminus elevation for a glacier in the contiguous United States ⓘ |
| protectedBy |
National Park Service
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. National Park Service
|
| state |
Washington
ⓘ
surface form:
Washington (state)
|
| surfaceFeatureOf | Mount Rainier ⓘ |
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: Carbon Glacier Description of subject: Carbon Glacier is a major valley glacier on the north slope of Mount Rainier in Washington, notable for its great thickness and low terminus elevation.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.