Lyman Glacier
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Lyman Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of Mount Adams in Washington State, known for its retreat in recent decades due to climate change.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lyman Glacier canonical | 1 |
| Wilson Glacier | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1512340 — 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: Lyman Glacier Context triple: [Mount Adams, hasGlacier, Lyman Glacier]
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A.
Ladd Glacier
Ladd Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of Mount Hood in the Cascade Range of northern Oregon.
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B.
Haynes Glacier
Haynes Glacier is a large Antarctic glacier that drains into the Amundsen Sea along the coast of West Antarctica.
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C.
Carver Glacier
Carver Glacier is a small mountain glacier located on the slopes of the Three Sisters volcanic peaks in the Cascade Range of Oregon.
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D.
Shoup Glacier
Shoup Glacier is a tidewater glacier in Alaska known for its dramatic ice formations and scenic fjord setting near Prince William Sound.
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E.
Reid Glacier
Reid Glacier is a mountain glacier on the western slopes of Mount Hood in Oregon, known for its crevassed ice and role in local climbing routes and hydrology.
- 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: Lyman Glacier Target entity description: Lyman Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of Mount Adams in Washington State, known for its retreat in recent decades due to climate change.
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A.
Ladd Glacier
Ladd Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of Mount Hood in the Cascade Range of northern Oregon.
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B.
Haynes Glacier
Haynes Glacier is a large Antarctic glacier that drains into the Amundsen Sea along the coast of West Antarctica.
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C.
Carver Glacier
Carver Glacier is a small mountain glacier located on the slopes of the Three Sisters volcanic peaks in the Cascade Range of Oregon.
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D.
Shoup Glacier
Shoup Glacier is a tidewater glacier in Alaska known for its dramatic ice formations and scenic fjord setting near Prince William Sound.
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E.
Reid Glacier
Reid Glacier is a mountain glacier on the western slopes of Mount Hood in Oregon, known for its crevassed ice and role in local climbing routes and hydrology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
glacier
ⓘ
mountain glacier ⓘ |
| affectedBy | climate change ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| drainsTo | downstream meltwater streams ⓘ |
| hasChange |
area loss over recent decades
ⓘ
volume loss over recent decades ⓘ |
| hasClimate | mountain climate ⓘ |
| hasEnvironment | alpine environment ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
crevasses
ⓘ
ice mass ⓘ snow and firn cover ⓘ |
| hasLocationType | mountain slope ⓘ |
| hasOrientation | mountain slope aspect on Mount Adams ⓘ |
| hasProcess | glacial retreat ⓘ |
| hasStatus | retreating ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceType | ice ⓘ |
| isEvidenceFor | regional climate warming ⓘ |
| isMonitoredFor |
climate change impacts
ⓘ
glacial retreat studies ⓘ |
| knownFor |
response to climate change
ⓘ
retreat in recent decades ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cascade Range
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Washington State
|
| locatedOn | Mount Adams ⓘ |
| onSlopeOf | Mount Adams ⓘ |
| partOf | Mount Adams glacial system ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
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: Lyman Glacier Description of subject: Lyman Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of Mount Adams in Washington State, known for its retreat in recent decades due to climate change.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Wilson Glacier