Bear Glacier
E289619
Bear Glacier is a large tidewater glacier in Alaska known for its dramatic ice formations, proglacial lagoon, and wildlife-rich coastal surroundings.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bear Glacier canonical | 2 |
| Bear Glacier@en | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1540061 — 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: Bear Glacier Context triple: [Kenai Fjords National Park, contains, Bear Glacier]
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A.
Lyman Glacier
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Gotchen Glacier
Gotchen Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of Mount Adams in Washington State, known for its ice fields and crevassed terrain.
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E.
Haynes Glacier
Haynes Glacier is a large Antarctic glacier that drains into the Amundsen Sea along the coast of West Antarctica.
- 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: Bear Glacier Target entity description: Bear Glacier is a large tidewater glacier in Alaska known for its dramatic ice formations, proglacial lagoon, and wildlife-rich coastal surroundings.
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A.
Lyman Glacier
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Gotchen Glacier
Gotchen Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of Mount Adams in Washington State, known for its ice fields and crevassed terrain.
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E.
Haynes Glacier
Haynes Glacier is a large Antarctic glacier that drains into the Amundsen Sea along the coast of West Antarctica.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
glacier
ⓘ
tidewater glacier ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| drainsInto |
Bear Glacier Lagoon
ⓘ
Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| geologicalType | valley glacier ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
crevasses
ⓘ
icebergs ⓘ moraines ⓘ proglacial lagoon ⓘ seracs ⓘ |
| hasLanguageName | English ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage |
Bear Glacier
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Bear Glacier@en
|
| hasProcess |
calving
ⓘ
glacial erosion ⓘ melting ⓘ |
| hasWildlife |
bears
ⓘ
mountain goats ⓘ sea otters ⓘ seabirds ⓘ seals ⓘ whales ⓘ |
| knownFor |
dramatic ice formations
ⓘ
glacier viewing ⓘ kayaking opportunities ⓘ proglacial lagoon ⓘ wildlife-rich coastal surroundings ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alaska
ⓘ
Kenai Fjords National Park ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Kenai Peninsula ⓘ |
| near |
Resurrection Bay
ⓘ
Seward, Alaska ⓘ
surface form:
city of Seward, Alaska
|
| partOf | Kenai Mountains icefield system ⓘ |
| protectedArea | Kenai Fjords National Park ⓘ |
| region |
Southcentral Alaska
ⓘ
surface form:
south-central Alaska
|
| subjectTo |
climate change
ⓘ
glacial retreat ⓘ |
| surfaceType | ice ⓘ |
| terminusType | tidewater terminus ⓘ |
| tourismActivity |
boat tours
ⓘ
camping near lagoon ⓘ flightseeing ⓘ guided kayak tours ⓘ |
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: Bear Glacier Description of subject: Bear Glacier is a large tidewater glacier in Alaska known for its dramatic ice formations, proglacial lagoon, and wildlife-rich coastal surroundings.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bear Glacier@en