Mintaka Pass
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Mintaka Pass is a high mountain pass in the Karakoram range that historically served as an important route between China and Pakistan along the ancient Silk Road.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mintaka Pass canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2816529 — 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: Mintaka Pass Context triple: [China–Pakistan border, borderPoint, Mintaka Pass]
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A.
Huta Pass
Huta Pass is a mountain pass located in the Beskid Sądecki range of the Western Carpathians in southern Poland.
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B.
Surami Pass
Surami Pass is a key mountain pass in central Georgia that serves as an important transportation route through the Likhi Range, linking the country’s eastern and western regions.
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C.
Sela Pass
Sela Pass is a high-altitude mountain pass in the eastern Himalayas of northeastern India, known for its scenic beauty, snow-covered landscapes, and strategic road connecting Tawang with the rest of Arunachal Pradesh.
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D.
Beklemeto Pass
Beklemeto Pass is a high mountain pass in central Bulgaria that serves as an important route across the Balkan Mountains, connecting northern and southern parts of the country.
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E.
Kohat Pass
Kohat Pass is a strategic mountain pass in Pakistan that connects the city of Kohat with the Peshawar valley through the rugged hills of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region.
- 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: Mintaka Pass Target entity description: Mintaka Pass is a high mountain pass in the Karakoram range that historically served as an important route between China and Pakistan along the ancient Silk Road.
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A.
Huta Pass
Huta Pass is a mountain pass located in the Beskid Sądecki range of the Western Carpathians in southern Poland.
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B.
Surami Pass
Surami Pass is a key mountain pass in central Georgia that serves as an important transportation route through the Likhi Range, linking the country’s eastern and western regions.
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C.
Sela Pass
Sela Pass is a high-altitude mountain pass in the eastern Himalayas of northeastern India, known for its scenic beauty, snow-covered landscapes, and strategic road connecting Tawang with the rest of Arunachal Pradesh.
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D.
Beklemeto Pass
Beklemeto Pass is a high mountain pass in central Bulgaria that serves as an important route across the Balkan Mountains, connecting northern and southern parts of the country.
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E.
Kohat Pass
Kohat Pass is a strategic mountain pass in Pakistan that connects the city of Kohat with the Peshawar valley through the rugged hills of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
international border crossing
ⓘ
mountain pass ⓘ |
| access | difficult and seasonally restricted ⓘ |
| borderBetween |
China
ⓘ
Pakistan ⓘ |
| climate | cold alpine climate ⓘ |
| connects |
China
ⓘ
Pakistan ⓘ |
| connectsRegion |
Hunza Valley
ⓘ
Xinjiang ⓘ |
| elevation |
approximately 15420 feet
ⓘ
approximately 4700 metres ⓘ |
| featureType | high mountain pass ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
important route between China and the Indian subcontinent
ⓘ
key pass on an ancient branch of the Silk Road ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry |
China
ⓘ
Pakistan ⓘ |
| locatedInMountainRange | Karakoram ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Gilgit-Baltistan
ⓘ
Xinjiang ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Khunjerab Pass
ⓘ
Kilik Pass ⓘ |
| mountainRange | Karakoram ⓘ |
| nameLanguage | local languages of the region ⓘ |
| partOf |
Trans-Karakoram Tract
ⓘ
surface form:
Karakoram Highway region
ancient trans-Karakoram trade network ⓘ |
| routeFunction | link between Central Asia and South Asia ⓘ |
| status | historical trade route ⓘ |
| terrain | high-altitude glaciated terrain ⓘ |
| transportRole | superseded by Khunjerab Pass for modern road traffic ⓘ |
| usedAsRouteFor |
Silk Road routes
ⓘ
surface form:
Silk Road
|
| usedBy |
caravans
ⓘ
pilgrims ⓘ traders ⓘ |
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: Mintaka Pass Description of subject: Mintaka Pass is a high mountain pass in the Karakoram range that historically served as an important route between China and Pakistan along the ancient Silk Road.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.