Glacier de la Grande Casse
E444838
Glacier de la Grande Casse is a high-altitude Alpine glacier lying on the slopes of Grande Casse, the highest peak in France’s Vanoise massif in the Graian Alps.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Glacier de la Grande Casse canonical | 1 |
| Glacier de la Grande Motte | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4466677 — 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: Glacier de la Grande Casse Context triple: [Grande Casse, hasGlacier, Glacier de la Grande Casse]
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A.
Glacier de Bionnassay
Glacier de Bionnassay is a prominent alpine glacier in the Mont Blanc massif of the French Alps, known for its steep icefalls and dramatic descent toward the Bionnassay valley.
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B.
Glacier de Tré-la-Tête
Glacier de Tré-la-Tête is a major valley glacier in the Mont Blanc massif of the French Alps, known for its extensive ice cover and role in regional hydrology and mountaineering.
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C.
Glacier de Leschaux
Glacier de Leschaux is a major valley glacier in the Mont Blanc massif of the French Alps, known for its dramatic ice flows and access to classic alpine climbing routes.
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D.
Glacier de la Tournette
Glacier de la Tournette is a mountain glacier within the Mont Blanc massif in the Alps, contributing to the region’s extensive high-altitude ice system.
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E.
Glacier des Bossons
Glacier des Bossons is a prominent valley glacier on the French side of the Mont Blanc massif, known for descending close to the Chamonix valley and being one of the most visible glaciers in the Alps.
- 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: Glacier de la Grande Casse Target entity description: Glacier de la Grande Casse is a high-altitude Alpine glacier lying on the slopes of Grande Casse, the highest peak in France’s Vanoise massif in the Graian Alps.
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A.
Glacier de Bionnassay
Glacier de Bionnassay is a prominent alpine glacier in the Mont Blanc massif of the French Alps, known for its steep icefalls and dramatic descent toward the Bionnassay valley.
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B.
Glacier de Tré-la-Tête
Glacier de Tré-la-Tête is a major valley glacier in the Mont Blanc massif of the French Alps, known for its extensive ice cover and role in regional hydrology and mountaineering.
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C.
Glacier de Leschaux
Glacier de Leschaux is a major valley glacier in the Mont Blanc massif of the French Alps, known for its dramatic ice flows and access to classic alpine climbing routes.
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D.
Glacier de la Tournette
Glacier de la Tournette is a mountain glacier within the Mont Blanc massif in the Alps, contributing to the region’s extensive high-altitude ice system.
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E.
Glacier des Bossons
Glacier des Bossons is a prominent valley glacier on the French side of the Mont Blanc massif, known for descending close to the Chamonix valley and being one of the most visible glaciers in the Alps.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Alpine glacier
ⓘ
glacier ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | department of Savoie ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | Isère basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevation | high-altitude ⓘ |
| geologicalType | valley glacier ⓘ |
| hasClimate | alpine climate ⓘ |
| isInProtectedArea | Vanoise National Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region
ⓘ
surface form:
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
France ⓘ Graian Alps NERFINISHED ⓘ Grande Casse NERFINISHED ⓘ Savoie NERFINISHED ⓘ Vanoise Massif NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Pralognan-la-Vanoise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mountainRange |
Graian Alps
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vanoise Massif NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Grande Casse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| onSlopeOf | Grande Casse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Alps
ⓘ
French Alps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Vanoise National Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| surfaceFeatureOf | Grande Casse north face NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Glacier de la Grande Casse Description of subject: Glacier de la Grande Casse is a high-altitude Alpine glacier lying on the slopes of Grande Casse, the highest peak in France’s Vanoise massif in the Graian Alps.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Glacier de la Grande Motte