Avalanche Pass
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Avalanche Pass is a rugged mountain pass in New York’s Adirondack High Peaks region, known for its dramatic cliffs, narrow corridor, and popular backcountry hiking route between Marcy Dam and Lake Colden.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Avalanche Pass canonical | 5 |
| Avalanche Pass slides | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1957417 — 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: Avalanche Pass Context triple: [Adirondack Loj, trailheadFor, Avalanche Pass]
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A.
Avalanche Pass
Avalanche Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, traversing the rugged terrain of the Great Western Divide and serving as a route for backcountry hikers.
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B.
Forester Pass
Forester Pass is a high mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada of California, renowned as the loftiest point along the Pacific Crest Trail and a challenging milestone for long-distance hikers.
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C.
Harrison Pass
Harrison Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, providing a rugged route across the Great Western Divide in Sequoia National Park.
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D.
Harrison Pass
Harrison Pass is a high mountain pass in Nevada that provides a key crossing through the Ruby Mountains.
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E.
Salsberry Pass
Salsberry Pass is a mountain pass in the Mojave Desert of eastern California, located within or near Death Valley National Park and known for its scenic desert vistas and winding roadway.
- 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: Avalanche Pass Target entity description: Avalanche Pass is a rugged mountain pass in New York’s Adirondack High Peaks region, known for its dramatic cliffs, narrow corridor, and popular backcountry hiking route between Marcy Dam and Lake Colden.
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A.
Avalanche Pass
Avalanche Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, traversing the rugged terrain of the Great Western Divide and serving as a route for backcountry hikers.
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B.
Forester Pass
Forester Pass is a high mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada of California, renowned as the loftiest point along the Pacific Crest Trail and a challenging milestone for long-distance hikers.
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C.
Harrison Pass
Harrison Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, providing a rugged route across the Great Western Divide in Sequoia National Park.
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D.
Harrison Pass
Harrison Pass is a high mountain pass in Nevada that provides a key crossing through the Ruby Mountains.
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E.
Salsberry Pass
Salsberry Pass is a mountain pass in the Mojave Desert of eastern California, located within or near Death Valley National Park and known for its scenic desert vistas and winding roadway.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hiking route
ⓘ
mountain pass ⓘ |
| accessedFrom |
Adirondak Loj trailheads
ⓘ
surface form:
Adirondak Loj trailhead
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| accessRestriction | foot travel only ⓘ |
| closestMajorTown |
Lake Placid
ⓘ
surface form:
Lake Placid, New York
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| connects |
Lake Colden
ⓘ
Marcy Dam area ⓘ
surface form:
Marcy Dam
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| elevation | approximately 2,900 feet ⓘ |
| feature |
boggy sections
ⓘ
narrow gorge-like section ⓘ puncheon and boardwalks ⓘ steep rock walls ⓘ wooden ladders ⓘ |
| hazard |
avalanches in winter
ⓘ
ice on trail structures ⓘ rockfall ⓘ |
| knownFor |
backcountry hiking
ⓘ
boulder fields ⓘ dramatic cliffs ⓘ ladders and boardwalks on the trail ⓘ narrow corridor ⓘ rock slides ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Adirondack Forty-Six High Peaks
ⓘ
surface form:
Adirondack High Peaks
Adirondack Mountains ⓘ Essex County, New York ⓘ New York ⓘ
surface form:
New York State
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| managedBy | New York State Department of Environmental Conservation ⓘ |
| mapCoverage | USGS Mount Marcy quadrangle ⓘ |
| near |
Algonquin Peak
ⓘ
Avalanche Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ Mount Colden ⓘ Mount Marcy ⓘ |
| partOf | High Peaks Wilderness Area ⓘ |
| popularWith |
backpackers
ⓘ
hikers ⓘ |
| recreationArea |
High Peaks Wilderness Area
ⓘ
surface form:
High Peaks Wilderness trail system
|
| region | Northeastern United States ⓘ |
| season | accessible year-round ⓘ |
| terrain | rugged ⓘ |
| trailMaintainedBy | New York State Department of Environmental Conservation ⓘ |
| trailType | foot trail ⓘ |
| usedFor |
backpacking
ⓘ
day hiking ⓘ winter travel ⓘ |
| withinProtectedArea | Adirondack Park ⓘ |
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: Avalanche Pass Description of subject: Avalanche Pass is a rugged mountain pass in New York’s Adirondack High Peaks region, known for its dramatic cliffs, narrow corridor, and popular backcountry hiking route between Marcy Dam and Lake Colden.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Avalanche Pass slides