Lhotse
E33536
Lhotse is the world’s fourth-highest mountain, located near Mount Everest in the Himalayas on the border between Nepal and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lhotse canonical | 29 |
| Lhotse Shar | 3 |
| Lhotse Middle | 2 |
| Lhotse Main | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T247214 — 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: Lhotse Context triple: [Himalayas, contains, Lhotse]
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A.
Kangchenjunga
Kangchenjunga is the world’s third-highest mountain, a massive peak in the eastern Himalayas on the border between Nepal and India.
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B.
K2
K2 is the world’s second-highest mountain, a notoriously difficult and dangerous peak in the Karakoram range of the Himalayas.
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C.
Mount Everest
Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Himalayas on the border between Nepal and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
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D.
Monte Rosa
Monte Rosa is a prominent massif in the Pennine Alps on the border between Switzerland and Italy, known for being the second-highest mountain in the Alps and Western Europe.
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E.
Aiguille du Midi
Aiguille du Midi is a prominent peak in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps, famous for its cable car access from Chamonix and panoramic viewing platforms over the surrounding mountains.
- 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: Lhotse Target entity description: Lhotse is the world’s fourth-highest mountain, located near Mount Everest in the Himalayas on the border between Nepal and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
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A.
Kangchenjunga
Kangchenjunga is the world’s third-highest mountain, a massive peak in the eastern Himalayas on the border between Nepal and India.
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B.
K2
K2 is the world’s second-highest mountain, a notoriously difficult and dangerous peak in the Karakoram range of the Himalayas.
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C.
Mount Everest
Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Himalayas on the border between Nepal and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
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D.
Monte Rosa
Monte Rosa is a prominent massif in the Pennine Alps on the border between Switzerland and Italy, known for being the second-highest mountain in the Alps and Western Europe.
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E.
Aiguille du Midi
Aiguille du Midi is a prominent peak in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps, famous for its cable car access from Chamonix and panoramic viewing platforms over the surrounding mountains.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
eight-thousander
ⓘ
mountain ⓘ |
| climbingDifficulty | very difficult ⓘ |
| climbingSeason |
post-monsoon (autumn)
ⓘ
pre-monsoon (spring) ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| coordinates | 27.9617°N 86.9330°E ⓘ |
| country |
China
ⓘ
Nepal ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | Dudh Kosi River basin ⓘ |
| elevation |
27940 ft
ⓘ
8383 m ⓘ 8414 m ⓘ 8516 m ⓘ 8516 m ⓘ |
| firstAscendedBy |
Ernst Reiss
ⓘ
Fritz Luchsinger ⓘ |
| firstAscentDate | 1956-05-18 ⓘ |
| firstAscentExpedition | Swiss Mount Everest/Lhotse Expedition 1956 ⓘ |
| firstWinterAscentYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| geologicalType | fold mountain ⓘ |
| hasGlacier | Lhotse Glacier ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Lhotse
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Lhotse Main
Lhotse self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Lhotse Middle
Lhotse self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Lhotse Shar
|
| listedIn | Eight-thousanders of the Himalayas ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Himalayas
ⓘ
surface form:
Mahalangur Himal
|
| locatedInProtectedArea | Sagarmatha National Park ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Mount Everest ⓘ |
| locatedOnBorder | Nepal–China border ⓘ |
| mountainRange | Himalayas ⓘ |
| nameLanguage | Tibetan ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | South Peak ⓘ |
| nearestMajorSettlement | Namche Bazaar ⓘ |
| normalRoute | West Face via Lhotse Face ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
shares much of its route with the standard Everest South Col route
ⓘ
steep south face ⓘ |
| parentPeak | Mount Everest ⓘ |
| partOf |
Greater Himalayas
ⓘ
surface form:
Great Himalaya range
|
| prominence | 610 m ⓘ |
| rankingByElevation | 4th-highest mountain in the world ⓘ |
| region |
Khumbu
ⓘ
Tibet Autonomous Region ⓘ |
| relativeLocation | south of Mount Everest ⓘ |
| ridgeConnection | connected to Everest via South Col ⓘ |
| SOIUSAClassification |
Eastern Himalayas
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Himalaya, Mahalangur Himal subgroup
|
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: Lhotse Description of subject: Lhotse is the world’s fourth-highest mountain, located near Mount Everest in the Himalayas on the border between Nepal and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Solukhumbu District
this entity surface form:
Lhotse Shar
subject surface form:
Lhotse
this entity surface form:
Lhotse Middle
subject surface form:
Lhotse
this entity surface form:
Lhotse Shar