Scimitar Glacier
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Scimitar Glacier is a prominent mountain glacier on the slopes of Glacier Peak in Washington’s North Cascades.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scimitar Glacier canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1640845 — 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: Scimitar Glacier Context triple: [Glacier Peak, hasGlacier, Scimitar Glacier]
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A.
Tokositna Glacier
Tokositna Glacier is a major valley glacier in the Alaska Range known for its dramatic ice flows and surrounding rugged mountain scenery.
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B.
Lyell Glacier
Lyell Glacier is a rapidly retreating mountain glacier in Yosemite National Park, historically the largest glacier in the park and situated on the slopes of Mount Lyell in the Sierra Nevada of California.
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C.
Spegazzini Glacier
Spegazzini Glacier is a prominent and scenic tidewater glacier in Los Glaciares National Park in Argentine Patagonia, known for its towering ice walls and dramatic views accessible by boat.
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D.
Miage Glacier
Miage Glacier is a large valley glacier on the Italian side of the Mont Blanc massif, notable for its extensive debris-covered surface.
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E.
Findel Glacier
Findel Glacier is a large valley glacier near Zermatt in the Swiss Pennine Alps, known for its dramatic ice flows and views of surrounding high peaks such as the Monte Rosa massif.
- 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: Scimitar Glacier Target entity description: Scimitar Glacier is a prominent mountain glacier on the slopes of Glacier Peak in Washington’s North Cascades.
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A.
Tokositna Glacier
Tokositna Glacier is a major valley glacier in the Alaska Range known for its dramatic ice flows and surrounding rugged mountain scenery.
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B.
Lyell Glacier
Lyell Glacier is a rapidly retreating mountain glacier in Yosemite National Park, historically the largest glacier in the park and situated on the slopes of Mount Lyell in the Sierra Nevada of California.
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C.
Spegazzini Glacier
Spegazzini Glacier is a prominent and scenic tidewater glacier in Los Glaciares National Park in Argentine Patagonia, known for its towering ice walls and dramatic views accessible by boat.
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D.
Miage Glacier
Miage Glacier is a large valley glacier on the Italian side of the Mont Blanc massif, notable for its extensive debris-covered surface.
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E.
Findel Glacier
Findel Glacier is a large valley glacier near Zermatt in the Swiss Pennine Alps, known for its dramatic ice flows and views of surrounding high peaks such as the Monte Rosa massif.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
glacier
ⓘ
mountain glacier ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| drainage |
White Chuck River basin
ⓘ
linked to:
White Chuck River
|
| featureType | valley glacier ⓘ |
| hasParentPeak | Glacier Peak ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceFeature |
crevasses
ⓘ
icefalls ⓘ |
| isAffectedBy | climate change ⓘ |
| isMonitoredBy | glaciologists ⓘ |
| isNear |
Dusty Glacier
ⓘ
Kennedy Glacier ⓘ Sitkum Glacier ⓘ |
| isOnVolcano | Glacier Peak ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Glacier Peak
ⓘ
North Cascades ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Washington ⓘ |
| locatedOn | slopes of Glacier Peak ⓘ |
| mountainRange | North Cascades ⓘ |
| namedAfter | scimitar (curved sword) ⓘ |
| partOf |
Glacier Peak volcanic complex
ⓘ
linked to:
Glacier Peak
|
| region | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| status | retreating ⓘ |
| USGSMap | Glacier Peak topographic map ⓘ |
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: Scimitar Glacier Description of subject: Scimitar Glacier is a prominent mountain glacier on the slopes of Glacier Peak in Washington’s North Cascades.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.