Aiguille du Midi
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Aiguille du Midi is a prominent peak in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps, famous for its cable car access from Chamonix and panoramic viewing platforms over the surrounding mountains.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aiguille du Midi canonical | 35 |
| Aiguille du Midi cable car | 2 |
| Aiguille du Midi cable car station | 2 |
| Aiguille du Midi summit station | 2 |
| Aiguille du Midi upper station | 2 |
| Aiguille du Midi arête | 1 |
| Aiguille du Midi station | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T118137 — 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: Aiguille du Midi Context triple: [Mont Blanc, hasNearbyPeak, Aiguille du Midi]
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A.
Dôme du Goûter
Dôme du Goûter is a prominent snow-covered summit in the Mont Blanc massif of the French Alps, often used as a key staging point on the normal route to Mont Blanc’s main peak.
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B.
Mont Blanc du Tacul
Mont Blanc du Tacul is a prominent 4,248-meter peak in the Mont Blanc massif of the French Alps, popular with mountaineers as part of the classic route to Mont Blanc.
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C.
Monte Rosa
Monte Rosa is a prominent massif in the Pennine Alps on the border between Switzerland and Italy, known for being the second-highest mountain in the Alps and Western Europe.
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D.
Mont Blanc
Mont Blanc is the tallest mountain in the Alps and Western Europe, straddling the border between France and Italy and renowned for mountaineering and skiing.
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E.
Glacier des Bossons
Glacier des Bossons is a prominent valley glacier on the French side of the Mont Blanc massif, known for descending close to the Chamonix valley and being one of the most visible glaciers in the Alps.
- 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: Aiguille du Midi Target entity description: Aiguille du Midi is a prominent peak in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps, famous for its cable car access from Chamonix and panoramic viewing platforms over the surrounding mountains.
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A.
Dôme du Goûter
Dôme du Goûter is a prominent snow-covered summit in the Mont Blanc massif of the French Alps, often used as a key staging point on the normal route to Mont Blanc’s main peak.
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B.
Mont Blanc du Tacul
Mont Blanc du Tacul is a prominent 4,248-meter peak in the Mont Blanc massif of the French Alps, popular with mountaineers as part of the classic route to Mont Blanc.
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C.
Monte Rosa
Monte Rosa is a prominent massif in the Pennine Alps on the border between Switzerland and Italy, known for being the second-highest mountain in the Alps and Western Europe.
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D.
Mont Blanc
Mont Blanc is the tallest mountain in the Alps and Western Europe, straddling the border between France and Italy and renowned for mountaineering and skiing.
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E.
Glacier des Bossons
Glacier des Bossons is a prominent valley glacier on the French side of the Mont Blanc massif, known for descending close to the Chamonix valley and being one of the most visible glaciers in the Alps.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mountain peak
ⓘ
tourist attraction ⓘ |
| accessedBy | Aiguille du Midi cable car ⓘ |
| cableCarOpeningYear | 1955 ⓘ |
| cableCarStatus | in operation ⓘ |
| cableCarType | aerial tramway ⓘ |
| climbingDifficulty | technical alpine routes ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| department | Haute-Savoie ⓘ |
| elevation |
12605 ft
ⓘ
3842 m ⓘ |
| geology | granite ⓘ |
| hasCableCarLowerStation | Chamonix ⓘ |
| hasCableCarMidStation | Plan de l’Aiguille ⓘ |
| hasCableCarUpperStation |
Aiguille du Midi
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Aiguille du Midi summit station
|
| hasCoordinateLatitude | 45.879 ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLongitude | 6.887 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
observation deck
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view of French Alps ⓘ view of Italian Alps ⓘ view of Mont Blanc ⓘ view of Swiss Alps ⓘ |
| hasManMadeFeature |
bridges between rock pinnacles
ⓘ
elevator inside rock ⓘ |
| hasStructure |
cable car station
ⓘ
panoramic viewing platform ⓘ restaurant ⓘ visitor facilities ⓘ |
| isPopularWith |
mountaineers
ⓘ
skiers ⓘ tourists ⓘ |
| isStartingPointFor |
Vallée Blanche ski route
ⓘ
mountaineering routes on Mont Blanc massif ⓘ |
| languageOfToponym | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alps
ⓘ
surface form:
French Alps
Mont Blanc massif ⓘ |
| mountainRange | Alps ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | Needle of the Midday ⓘ |
| nearestCity | Chamonix ⓘ |
| offersViewOf |
Aiguilles de Chamonix
ⓘ
Chamonix ⓘ
surface form:
Chamonix Valley
Mont Blanc ⓘ Vallée Blanche ski route ⓘ
surface form:
Vallée Blanche
|
| partOf | Mont Blanc massif ⓘ |
| prominence | about 280 m ⓘ |
| region |
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region
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surface form:
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
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| touristActivity |
alpine climbing
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hiking ⓘ mountaineering ⓘ sightseeing ⓘ skiing ⓘ |
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: Aiguille du Midi Description of subject: Aiguille du Midi is a prominent peak in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps, famous for its cable car access from Chamonix and panoramic viewing platforms over the surrounding mountains.
Referenced by (45)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Aiguille du Midi cable car
this entity surface form:
Aiguille du Midi summit station
this entity surface form:
Aiguille du Midi cable car
this entity surface form:
Aiguille du Midi cable car station
this entity surface form:
Aiguille du Midi arête
this entity surface form:
Aiguille du Midi upper station
this entity surface form:
Aiguille du Midi cable car station
this entity surface form:
Aiguille du Midi summit station
this entity surface form:
Aiguille du Midi station
subject surface form:
Frendo Spur
subject surface form:
Frendo Spur
this entity surface form:
Aiguille du Midi upper station