Bering Glacier
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Bering Glacier is the largest glacier in North America, located in southeastern Alaska where it flows from the St. Elias Mountains toward the Gulf of Alaska.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bering Glacier canonical | 3 |
| Bering Glacier–Bagley Icefield system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3490643 — 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: Bering Glacier Context triple: [Vitus Bering, associatedWith, Bering Glacier]
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A.
Fedchenko Glacier
Fedchenko Glacier is one of the world’s longest mountain glaciers, located in Tajikistan’s Pamir range and notable for its vast size and scientific importance.
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B.
Aialik Glacier
Aialik Glacier is a large, actively calving tidewater glacier on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, popular for boat tours and wildlife viewing within Kenai Fjords National Park.
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C.
Columbia Glacier
Columbia Glacier is a large, fast-retreating tidewater glacier in Alaska known for its significant contribution to sea-level rise and extensive iceberg calving.
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D.
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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E.
Russell Glacier
Russell Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of Mount Jefferson in the Cascade Range of Oregon.
- 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: Bering Glacier Target entity description: Bering Glacier is the largest glacier in North America, located in southeastern Alaska where it flows from the St. Elias Mountains toward the Gulf of Alaska.
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A.
Fedchenko Glacier
Fedchenko Glacier is one of the world’s longest mountain glaciers, located in Tajikistan’s Pamir range and notable for its vast size and scientific importance.
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B.
Aialik Glacier
Aialik Glacier is a large, actively calving tidewater glacier on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, popular for boat tours and wildlife viewing within Kenai Fjords National Park.
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C.
Columbia Glacier
Columbia Glacier is a large, fast-retreating tidewater glacier in Alaska known for its significant contribution to sea-level rise and extensive iceberg calving.
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D.
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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E.
Russell Glacier
Russell Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of Mount Jefferson in the Cascade Range of Oregon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
glacier
ⓘ
glacier system ⓘ tidewater glacier ⓘ valley glacier ⓘ |
| affectedBy | global warming ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| drainsInto | Gulf of Alaska ⓘ |
| exhibits | surge behavior ⓘ |
| feeds | Bering Glacier self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| flowsFrom |
Saint Elias Mountains
ⓘ
surface form:
St. Elias Mountains
|
| flowsToward | Gulf of Alaska ⓘ |
| forms | proglacial lakes ⓘ |
| hasArea |
over 1900 square miles
ⓘ
over 5000 square kilometers ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLatitude | approximately 60.0 N ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLongitude | approximately 143.0 W ⓘ |
| hasLength |
approximately 118 miles
ⓘ
approximately 190 kilometers ⓘ |
| hasMouthNear | Gulf of Alaska ⓘ |
| hasOutflow |
Seal River
ⓘ
Tsivat River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart | Bagley Icefield ⓘ |
| hasStatus | retreating ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceFeature |
crevasses
ⓘ
icefalls ⓘ moraines ⓘ |
| influences |
local sea level
ⓘ
regional climate ⓘ |
| isFedBy | Bagley Icefield ⓘ |
| isLargestGlacierIn | North America ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alaska
ⓘ
North America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
southeastern Alaska ⓘ |
| monitoredBy |
NASA
ⓘ
surface form:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
United States Geological Survey ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Vitus Bering ⓘ |
| near |
Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve
ⓘ
Yakutat ⓘ
surface form:
Yakutat, Alaska
|
| partOf |
Bering Glacier
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Bering Glacier–Bagley Icefield system
Saint Elias Mountains ⓘ
surface form:
St. Elias Mountains
|
| state | Alaska ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
climate change studies
ⓘ
glaciological research ⓘ |
| terminatesIn | Vitus Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typeOf | surging glacier ⓘ |
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: Bering Glacier Description of subject: Bering Glacier is the largest glacier in North America, located in southeastern Alaska where it flows from the St. Elias Mountains toward the Gulf of Alaska.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bagley Icefield
this entity surface form:
Bering Glacier–Bagley Icefield system