Mazama Glacier
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Mazama Glacier is a prominent mountain glacier located on the slopes of Mount Adams in Washington State, known for its crevasses and role in feeding local watersheds.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mazama Glacier canonical | 3 |
| Glaciers of Mount Adams | 1 |
| Mount Adams glacier system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1512341 — 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: Mazama Glacier Context triple: [Mount Adams, hasGlacier, Mazama Glacier]
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A.
Clark Glacier
Clark Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of the Three Sisters volcanic peaks in the Cascade Range of Oregon.
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B.
Squaw Glacier
Squaw Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of the Three Sisters volcanic peaks in the Cascade Range of Oregon.
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C.
Panmah Glacier
Panmah Glacier is a major glacier in Pakistan’s Karakoram range, known for its rugged terrain and proximity to several notable high peaks.
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D.
Emmons Glacier
Emmons Glacier is the largest glacier by area in the contiguous United States, flowing down the eastern flank of Mount Rainier in Washington State.
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E.
Crater Glacier
Crater Glacier is a relatively young glacier that formed within the crater of Mount St. Helens after its 1980 eruption, growing rapidly in the shadow of the volcano’s crater walls.
- 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: Mazama Glacier Target entity description: Mazama Glacier is a prominent mountain glacier located on the slopes of Mount Adams in Washington State, known for its crevasses and role in feeding local watersheds.
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A.
Clark Glacier
Clark Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of the Three Sisters volcanic peaks in the Cascade Range of Oregon.
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B.
Squaw Glacier
Squaw Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of the Three Sisters volcanic peaks in the Cascade Range of Oregon.
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C.
Panmah Glacier
Panmah Glacier is a major glacier in Pakistan’s Karakoram range, known for its rugged terrain and proximity to several notable high peaks.
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D.
Emmons Glacier
Emmons Glacier is the largest glacier by area in the contiguous United States, flowing down the eastern flank of Mount Rainier in Washington State.
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E.
Crater Glacier
Crater Glacier is a relatively young glacier that formed within the crater of Mount St. Helens after its 1980 eruption, growing rapidly in the shadow of the volcano’s crater walls.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
glacier
ⓘ
mountain glacier ⓘ |
| activity |
glaciological study site
ⓘ
mountaineering route feature ⓘ |
| climateZone |
montane
ⓘ
subalpine ⓘ |
| composition | ice ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| drainage | watersheds on and around Mount Adams ⓘ |
| environment | high-elevation volcanic peak ⓘ |
| feeds | local watersheds ⓘ |
| formationProcess | accumulation and compaction of snow on Mount Adams ⓘ |
| geologicalType | alpine glacier ⓘ |
| hasFeature | crevasses ⓘ |
| hazard | crevasse falls ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cascade Range
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Washington ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Mount Adams ⓘ |
| locatedOnFlankOf | Mount Adams ⓘ |
| mountain | Mount Adams ⓘ |
| movementType | gravity-driven ice flow ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Mount Mazama (namesake association within Cascade volcanic arc)
ⓘ
linked to:
Mount Mazama
|
| partOf | glacial system of Mount Adams ⓘ |
| range | Cascade Range ⓘ |
| region | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| role |
contributor to local hydrology
ⓘ
source of meltwater ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| surfaceFeature | crevassed ice ⓘ |
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: Mazama Glacier Description of subject: Mazama Glacier is a prominent mountain glacier located on the slopes of Mount Adams in Washington State, known for its crevasses and role in feeding local watersheds.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mazama Glacier
linked to: Mazama Glacier