Kīlauea
E17990
Kīlauea is one of the world’s most active shield volcanoes, located on Hawaii’s Big Island and renowned for its frequent eruptions and lava flows.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kīlauea canonical | 19 |
| Kilauea | 3 |
| Kīlauea Caldera | 2 |
| Kīlauea volcano | 2 |
| 1983–2018 Puʻu ʻŌʻō eruption | 1 |
| Kilauea (Hawaii) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T145592 — 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: Kīlauea Context triple: [Hawaii, hasVolcano, Kīlauea]
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A.
Newberry Volcano
Newberry Volcano is a large shield-shaped volcanic complex in central Oregon known for its expansive caldera, numerous lava flows and cinder cones, and active geothermal features.
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B.
Mauna Loa
Mauna Loa is one of the world’s largest and most active shield volcanoes, dominating much of Hawaii’s Big Island.
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C.
Mauna Kea
Mauna Kea is a dormant volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island renowned both as the state’s tallest mountain and as one of the world’s premier sites for astronomical observatories.
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D.
Mount St. Helens
Mount St. Helens is an active stratovolcano in Washington State, USA, best known for its catastrophic 1980 eruption that dramatically reshaped its summit and surrounding landscape.
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E.
Medicine Lake Volcano
Medicine Lake Volcano is a large, shield-shaped volcano in northeastern California known for its extensive lava flows and location within the Cascade Volcanic Arc.
- 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: Kīlauea Target entity description: Kīlauea is one of the world’s most active shield volcanoes, located on Hawaii’s Big Island and renowned for its frequent eruptions and lava flows.
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A.
Newberry Volcano
Newberry Volcano is a large shield-shaped volcanic complex in central Oregon known for its expansive caldera, numerous lava flows and cinder cones, and active geothermal features.
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B.
Mauna Loa
Mauna Loa is one of the world’s largest and most active shield volcanoes, dominating much of Hawaii’s Big Island.
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C.
Mauna Kea
Mauna Kea is a dormant volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island renowned both as the state’s tallest mountain and as one of the world’s premier sites for astronomical observatories.
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D.
Mount St. Helens
Mount St. Helens is an active stratovolcano in Washington State, USA, best known for its catastrophic 1980 eruption that dramatically reshaped its summit and surrounding landscape.
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E.
Medicine Lake Volcano
Medicine Lake Volcano is a large, shield-shaped volcano in northeastern California known for its extensive lava flows and location within the Cascade Volcanic Arc.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
active volcano
ⓘ
shield volcano ⓘ |
| associatedDeity | Pele ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| formedBy | Hawaii hotspot ⓘ |
| hasApproximateAge | 300000 to 600000 years ⓘ |
| hasContinuousActivitySince | early 19th century ⓘ |
| hasCrater | Halemaʻumaʻu Crater ⓘ |
| hasElevation |
1247 meters
ⓘ
4091 feet ⓘ |
| hasEruptionStyle |
Hawaiian eruption
ⓘ
Strombolian eruption ⓘ effusive eruption ⓘ |
| hasGeologicSetting | Pacific Plate ⓘ |
| hasHazardType |
ashfall
ⓘ
ground deformation ⓘ lava flows ⓘ volcanic gas emissions ⓘ |
| hasLastingEruption |
Kīlauea
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
1983–2018 Puʻu ʻŌʻō eruption
|
| hasLatitude | approximately 19.421° N ⓘ |
| hasLavaType | tholeiitic basalt ⓘ |
| hasLongitude | approximately 155.287° W ⓘ |
| hasMajorEruption |
2018 lower Puna eruption
ⓘ
2020–2021 summit eruption ⓘ 2021–2022 summit eruption ⓘ 2023 summit eruption ⓘ |
| hasMeaningOfName | “spewing” or “much spreading” in Hawaiian ⓘ |
| hasNativeNameLanguage | Hawaiian ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryRockType | basalt ⓘ |
| hasSummitCaldera |
Kīlauea
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Kīlauea Caldera
|
| hasTectonicSetting | hotspot volcano ⓘ |
| hasVent |
Halemaʻumaʻu
ⓘ
Puʻu ʻŌʻō ⓘ |
| hasVolcanicExplosivityIndexRange | VEI 0–4 ⓘ |
| hasVolcanoType | shield volcano ⓘ |
| isMonitoredBy |
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
ⓘ
surface form:
USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
|
| isOneOf | world’s most active volcanoes ⓘ |
| isOnIsland |
Hawaiʻi (island)
ⓘ
surface form:
Hawaii Island
|
| isSacredTo | Native Hawaiians ⓘ |
| isTouristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
| isWithinProtectedArea |
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
ⓘ
surface form:
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
|
| liesOnFlankOf | Mauna Loa ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hawaiʻi (island)
ⓘ
surface form:
Hawaii
Hawaiʻi (island) ⓘ
surface form:
Hawaii Island
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| partOf |
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
ⓘ
surface form:
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Hawaiian Islands ⓘ Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain ⓘ |
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: Kīlauea Description of subject: Kīlauea is one of the world’s most active shield volcanoes, located on Hawaii’s Big Island and renowned for its frequent eruptions and lava flows.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kīlauea Caldera
this entity surface form:
1983–2018 Puʻu ʻŌʻō eruption
this entity surface form:
Kīlauea Caldera
subject surface form:
Mauna Loa
this entity surface form:
Kīlauea volcano
this entity surface form:
Kilauea
this entity surface form:
Kilauea (Hawaii)
this entity surface form:
Kīlauea volcano
this entity surface form:
Kilauea
this entity surface form:
Kilauea