Tioga Pass
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Tioga Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, best known as the eastern entrance to Yosemite National Park and one of the highest paved roads in the state.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tioga Pass canonical | 28 |
| Tioga Pass entrance station | 2 |
| Kearsarge Pass | 1 |
| Tioga Pass Entrance | 1 |
| Tioga Pass Road | 1 |
| Tioga Pass entrance to Yosemite National Park | 1 |
| Tioga Road | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12049 — 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: Tioga Pass Context triple: [Sierra Nevada, crossedBy, Tioga Pass]
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A.
Donner Pass
Donner Pass is a historically significant mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, known for its challenging terrain, transcontinental railroad route, and the ill-fated Donner Party.
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B.
Clark Mountain Range
Clark Mountain Range is a remote, rugged mountain range in southeastern California known for its high desert peaks and location within the Mojave National Preserve.
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C.
Heavenly Mountain Resort
Heavenly Mountain Resort is a major ski and snowboard destination in the Sierra Nevada known for its expansive terrain, vibrant après-ski scene, and panoramic views of Lake Tahoe.
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D.
Lake Tear of the Clouds
Lake Tear of the Clouds is a small mountain tarn on the slopes of New York’s Mount Marcy, historically recognized as the highest-elevation source of the Hudson River.
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E.
Mount Whitney
Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States, located in the Sierra Nevada range of eastern California.
- 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: Tioga Pass Target entity description: Tioga Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, best known as the eastern entrance to Yosemite National Park and one of the highest paved roads in the state.
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A.
Donner Pass
Donner Pass is a historically significant mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, known for its challenging terrain, transcontinental railroad route, and the ill-fated Donner Party.
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B.
Clark Mountain Range
Clark Mountain Range is a remote, rugged mountain range in southeastern California known for its high desert peaks and location within the Mojave National Preserve.
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C.
Heavenly Mountain Resort
Heavenly Mountain Resort is a major ski and snowboard destination in the Sierra Nevada known for its expansive terrain, vibrant après-ski scene, and panoramic views of Lake Tahoe.
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D.
Lake Tear of the Clouds
Lake Tear of the Clouds is a small mountain tarn on the slopes of New York’s Mount Marcy, historically recognized as the highest-elevation source of the Hudson River.
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E.
Mount Whitney
Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States, located in the Sierra Nevada range of eastern California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mountain pass
ⓘ
road pass ⓘ |
| accesses |
Eastern Sierra
ⓘ
Tuolumne Meadows ⓘ Yosemite Valley via Tioga Road ⓘ |
| connects |
Mammoth Lakes area
ⓘ
surface form:
Lee Vining area
Mono Basin ⓘ Yosemite National Park interior ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Tuolumne County ⓘ |
| distanceTo | about 12 miles west of Lee Vining ⓘ |
| elevation |
about 3,031 meters
ⓘ
about 9,945 feet ⓘ |
| governingBody |
National Park Service
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. National Park Service
|
| hasClimate | alpine climate ⓘ |
| hasViewOf |
Sierra Nevada
ⓘ
surface form:
Sierra Nevada high country
|
| highestPointOf | California State Route 120 ⓘ |
| isOn |
Sierra Nevada passes
ⓘ
surface form:
Sierra Nevada crest
|
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Sierra Nevada ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| mountainRange | Sierra Nevada ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Tioga County, New York
ⓘ
Tioga Mine ⓘ |
| near |
Dana Meadows
ⓘ
Mono County ⓘ Mount Dana ⓘ Mount Dana ⓘ
surface form:
Mount Gibbs
Tioga Lake ⓘ |
| nearProtectedArea | Inyo National Forest ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the highest highway pass in California that crosses the Sierra Nevada
ⓘ
serving as Yosemite’s eastern gateway ⓘ |
| oneOf | highest paved roads in California ⓘ |
| partOf | Yosemite National Park ⓘ |
| roadName |
Tioga Pass
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Tioga Road
|
| roadOperator | National Park Service ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved ⓘ |
| seasonalStatus |
typically closed in winter due to snow
ⓘ
typically open only in late spring through fall ⓘ |
| servesAs | eastern entrance to Yosemite National Park ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| transportType | automobile road ⓘ |
| traversedBy | California State Route 120 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
access to hiking trails
ⓘ
scenic driving ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| withinProtectedArea | Yosemite National 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: Tioga Pass Description of subject: Tioga Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, best known as the eastern entrance to Yosemite National Park and one of the highest paved roads in the state.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tioga Road
this entity surface form:
Kearsarge Pass
this entity surface form:
Tioga Pass Road
this entity surface form:
Tioga Pass entrance station
this entity surface form:
Tioga Pass entrance station
this entity surface form:
Tioga Pass entrance to Yosemite National Park
subject surface form:
Tioga Pass corridor
subject surface form:
Dana Glacier
this entity surface form:
Tioga Pass Entrance