Jostedalsbreen glacier
E363657
Jostedalsbreen glacier is the largest glacier on the European mainland, located in western Norway within Jostedalsbreen National Park.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jostedalsbreen | 8 |
| Jostedalsbreen glacier canonical | 2 |
| Jostedalsbreen ice cap | 2 |
| Briksdalsbreen | 1 |
| Jostedalsbreen glacier area | 1 |
| glaciers of Jostedalsbreen ice cap | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3506351 — 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: Jostedalsbreen glacier Context triple: [Sognefjord, near, Jostedalsbreen glacier]
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A.
Upsala Glacier
Upsala Glacier is one of the largest and most significant valley glaciers in Argentine Patagonia, known for its dramatic ice cliffs and rapid retreat.
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B.
Forel Glacier
Forel Glacier is one of the small equatorial glaciers on Mount Kenya in Kenya’s central highlands.
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C.
Finnsnes
Finnsnes is a small coastal town in northern Norway that serves as a commercial and transport hub for the island municipality of Senja.
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D.
Vatnajökull ice cap
The Vatnajökull ice cap is Iceland’s largest glacier and one of Europe’s most extensive ice masses, covering active volcanoes and dramatic mountainous terrain within Vatnajökull National Park.
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E.
Viedma Glacier
Viedma Glacier is a massive Patagonian ice field in southern Argentina, known for its striking blue ice, crevasses, and calving front into Lake Viedma.
- 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: Jostedalsbreen glacier Target entity description: Jostedalsbreen glacier is the largest glacier on the European mainland, located in western Norway within Jostedalsbreen National Park.
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A.
Upsala Glacier
Upsala Glacier is one of the largest and most significant valley glaciers in Argentine Patagonia, known for its dramatic ice cliffs and rapid retreat.
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B.
Forel Glacier
Forel Glacier is one of the small equatorial glaciers on Mount Kenya in Kenya’s central highlands.
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C.
Finnsnes
Finnsnes is a small coastal town in northern Norway that serves as a commercial and transport hub for the island municipality of Senja.
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D.
Vatnajökull ice cap
The Vatnajökull ice cap is Iceland’s largest glacier and one of Europe’s most extensive ice masses, covering active volcanoes and dramatic mountainous terrain within Vatnajökull National Park.
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E.
Viedma Glacier
Viedma Glacier is a massive Patagonian ice field in southern Argentina, known for its striking blue ice, crevasses, and calving front into Lake Viedma.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
glacier
ⓘ
naturalFeature ⓘ |
| climateEffect | sensitive to climate change ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Norway ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | North Sea ⓘ |
| elevation |
approximately 1957 metres above sea level
ⓘ
approximately 6421 feet above sea level ⓘ |
| feedsRiver |
Jostedøla
ⓘ
Jølstra ⓘ Stryneelva ⓘ |
| geologicalType | plateau glacier ⓘ |
| hasArea |
approximately 188 square miles
ⓘ
approximately 487 square kilometres ⓘ |
| hasHighestPoint | Høgste Breakulen ⓘ |
| hasIceThickness |
up to about 2000 feet
ⓘ
up to about 600 metres ⓘ |
| hasLength | approximately 60 kilometres ⓘ |
| hasOutletGlacier |
Jostedalsbreen glacier
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Briksdalsbreen
Bøyabreen ⓘ Kjenndalsbreen ⓘ Nigardsbreen ⓘ Supphellebreen ⓘ Tunsbergdalsbreen ⓘ |
| hasVisitorCentre | Jostedalsbreen National Park Centre ⓘ |
| hasWidth | up to about 15 kilometres ⓘ |
| isLargest | glacier on the European mainland ⓘ |
| languageOfToponym | Norwegian ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Jostedalsbreen National Park
ⓘ
Western Norway ⓘ
surface form:
western Norway
|
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Vestland county NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInFormerCounty | Sogn og Fjordane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| managedBy | Norwegian Environment Agency ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | the glacier of Jostedal valley ⓘ |
| nationalParkEstablished | 1991 ⓘ |
| nearestFjord |
Nordfjord
ⓘ
Sognefjord ⓘ
surface form:
Sognefjorden
|
| nearestTown |
Førde
ⓘ
Sogndal ⓘ Stryn ⓘ |
| partOf | Scandinavia ⓘ |
| protectedBy | Jostedalsbreen National Park ⓘ |
| tourismActivity |
glacier hiking
ⓘ
guided glacier walks ⓘ ice climbing ⓘ |
| trend | experiencing glacier retreat ⓘ |
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: Jostedalsbreen glacier Description of subject: Jostedalsbreen glacier is the largest glacier on the European mainland, located in western Norway within Jostedalsbreen National Park.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jostedalsbreen
this entity surface form:
Jostedalsbreen
subject surface form:
Jostedalsbreen
this entity surface form:
Briksdalsbreen
this entity surface form:
Jostedalsbreen ice cap
this entity surface form:
Jostedalsbreen
this entity surface form:
Jostedalsbreen
this entity surface form:
Jostedalsbreen
this entity surface form:
Jostedalsbreen glacier area
this entity surface form:
Jostedalsbreen
this entity surface form:
glaciers of Jostedalsbreen ice cap
this entity surface form:
Jostedalsbreen
this entity surface form:
Jostedalsbreen