Rocky Mountains
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The Rocky Mountains are a major North American mountain range stretching from Canada through the western United States, known for their high peaks, rugged terrain, and significant influence on the region’s climate and ecology.
All labels observed (24)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T70851 — 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: Rocky Mountains Context triple: [western United States, hasPart, Rocky Mountains]
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A.
Columbia Mountains
The Columbia Mountains are a rugged mountain range in southeastern British Columbia and parts of the northwestern United States, known for their steep terrain, extensive forests, and significant role in regional ecology and outdoor recreation.
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Cascade Range
The Cascade Range is a major mountain range in western North America known for its chain of volcanic peaks, including Mount St. Helens, Mount Rainier, and Mount Hood.
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C.
Sierra Nevada
Sierra Nevada is a major mountain range in the western United States known for its dramatic granite peaks, extensive forests, and iconic natural landmarks such as Yosemite National Park and Lake Tahoe.
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Yukon Ranges
The Yukon Ranges are a series of rugged mountain ranges in Canada’s Yukon Territory, known for their remote wilderness, glaciated peaks, and role as part of the broader Pacific mountain system.
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E.
Alaska Range
The Alaska Range is a major mountain chain in south-central Alaska known for its rugged peaks, including Denali, the highest mountain in North America.
- 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: Rocky Mountains Target entity description: The Rocky Mountains are a major North American mountain range stretching from Canada through the western United States, known for their high peaks, rugged terrain, and significant influence on the region’s climate and ecology.
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A.
Columbia Mountains
The Columbia Mountains are a rugged mountain range in southeastern British Columbia and parts of the northwestern United States, known for their steep terrain, extensive forests, and significant role in regional ecology and outdoor recreation.
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B.
Cascade Range
The Cascade Range is a major mountain range in western North America known for its chain of volcanic peaks, including Mount St. Helens, Mount Rainier, and Mount Hood.
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C.
Sierra Nevada
Sierra Nevada is a major mountain range in the western United States known for its dramatic granite peaks, extensive forests, and iconic natural landmarks such as Yosemite National Park and Lake Tahoe.
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D.
Yukon Ranges
The Yukon Ranges are a series of rugged mountain ranges in Canada’s Yukon Territory, known for their remote wilderness, glaciated peaks, and role as part of the broader Pacific mountain system.
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E.
Alaska Range
The Alaska Range is a major mountain chain in south-central Alaska known for its rugged peaks, including Denali, the highest mountain in North America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Rocky Mountains Description of subject: The Rocky Mountains are a major North American mountain range stretching from Canada through the western United States, known for their high peaks, rugged terrain, and significant influence on the region’s climate and ecology.
Referenced by (516)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Southwestern United States
this entity surface form:
Rocky Mountain region
this entity surface form:
Rocky Mountain region
this entity surface form:
Rocky Mountain region
this entity surface form:
Rocky Mountains to the west
this entity surface form:
Southern Rocky Mountains
subject surface form:
Mount Elbert
this entity surface form:
Canadian Rockies
subject surface form:
Canadian Rockies