Yosemite Valley
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Yosemite Valley is a famous glacial valley in California’s Sierra Nevada, renowned for its towering granite cliffs, waterfalls, and central role as the scenic heart of Yosemite National Park.
All labels observed (21)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12280 — 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: Yosemite Valley Context triple: [Yosemite National Park, contains, Yosemite Valley]
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Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park is a renowned U.S. national park in the Sierra Nevada mountains, famous for its dramatic granite cliffs, waterfalls, giant sequoias, and diverse wilderness.
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Owens Valley
Owens Valley is a long, arid valley in eastern California, lying between the Sierra Nevada and the White/Inyo Mountains and known for its dramatic scenery and historic water diversions to Los Angeles.
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Lassen Volcanic National Park
Lassen Volcanic National Park is a U.S. national park in northern California known for its active geothermal features, including fumaroles, hot springs, and the prominent Lassen Peak volcano.
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Lake Tahoe Basin
The Lake Tahoe Basin is a high-altitude watershed in the Sierra Nevada centered on Lake Tahoe, renowned for its clear alpine lake, surrounding forests, and year-round outdoor recreation.
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Snake Valley
Snake Valley is a remote, arid basin on the Utah–Nevada border known for its desert landscapes, groundwater-dependent ecosystems, and proximity to Great Basin National Park.
- 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: Yosemite Valley Target entity description: Yosemite Valley is a famous glacial valley in California’s Sierra Nevada, renowned for its towering granite cliffs, waterfalls, and central role as the scenic heart of Yosemite National Park.
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A.
Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park is a renowned U.S. national park in the Sierra Nevada mountains, famous for its dramatic granite cliffs, waterfalls, giant sequoias, and diverse wilderness.
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B.
Owens Valley
Owens Valley is a long, arid valley in eastern California, lying between the Sierra Nevada and the White/Inyo Mountains and known for its dramatic scenery and historic water diversions to Los Angeles.
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C.
Lassen Volcanic National Park
Lassen Volcanic National Park is a U.S. national park in northern California known for its active geothermal features, including fumaroles, hot springs, and the prominent Lassen Peak volcano.
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Lake Tahoe Basin
The Lake Tahoe Basin is a high-altitude watershed in the Sierra Nevada centered on Lake Tahoe, renowned for its clear alpine lake, surrounding forests, and year-round outdoor recreation.
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Snake Valley
Snake Valley is a remote, arid basin on the Utah–Nevada border known for its desert landscapes, groundwater-dependent ecosystems, and proximity to Great Basin National Park.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (67)
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: Yosemite Valley Description of subject: Yosemite Valley is a famous glacial valley in California’s Sierra Nevada, renowned for its towering granite cliffs, waterfalls, and central role as the scenic heart of Yosemite National Park.
Referenced by (171)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Merced River canyon
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Yosemite Valley climbing area
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Yosemite Valley (upper portion)
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Yosemite Village area
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Yosemite Valley granite cliffs
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Yosemite Valley floor
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The Yosemite
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Yosemite Valley, California
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Yosemite Valley area
this entity surface form:
Yosemite Valley floor
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Groveland, California
this entity surface form:
Yosemite Valley floor
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Yosemite Valley floor
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Yosemite Valley floor (partially)
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Yosemite Valley day-use area
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Yosemite Valley floor