Kicking Horse Pass
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Kicking Horse Pass is a high mountain pass in the Canadian Rockies, historically significant as a key rail and highway route between British Columbia and Alberta.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kicking Horse Pass canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5153967 — 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: Kicking Horse Pass Context triple: [Yoho National Park, hasPass, Kicking Horse Pass]
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A.
Kirkstone Pass
Kirkstone Pass is a high mountain pass in England’s Lake District, known for its steep, scenic road linking Ambleside and Patterdale through dramatic fell landscapes.
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B.
Cottonwood Pass
Cottonwood Pass is a high mountain pass in central Colorado that crosses the Continental Divide, offering scenic views and access between the towns of Buena Vista and Taylor Park.
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C.
Harrison Pass
Harrison Pass is a high mountain pass in Nevada that provides a key crossing through the Ruby Mountains.
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D.
Harrison Pass
Harrison Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, providing a rugged route across the Great Western Divide in Sequoia National Park.
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E.
Kaiser Pass
Kaiser Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada that provides access to remote lakes, wilderness areas, and trailheads along State Route 168.
- 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: Kicking Horse Pass Target entity description: Kicking Horse Pass is a high mountain pass in the Canadian Rockies, historically significant as a key rail and highway route between British Columbia and Alberta.
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A.
Kirkstone Pass
Kirkstone Pass is a high mountain pass in England’s Lake District, known for its steep, scenic road linking Ambleside and Patterdale through dramatic fell landscapes.
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B.
Cottonwood Pass
Cottonwood Pass is a high mountain pass in central Colorado that crosses the Continental Divide, offering scenic views and access between the towns of Buena Vista and Taylor Park.
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C.
Harrison Pass
Harrison Pass is a high mountain pass in Nevada that provides a key crossing through the Ruby Mountains.
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D.
Harrison Pass
Harrison Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, providing a rugged route across the Great Western Divide in Sequoia National Park.
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E.
Kaiser Pass
Kaiser Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada that provides access to remote lakes, wilderness areas, and trailheads along State Route 168.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | mountain pass ⓘ |
| climate | subalpine ⓘ |
| connects |
Alberta
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| crosses | Continental Divide NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designatedAs | National Historic Site of Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designationYear | 1971 ⓘ |
| drainageDivideBetween |
Bow River basin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kicking Horse River basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevation |
1627 metres
ⓘ
5340 feet ⓘ |
| hasFeature | Kicking Horse River headwaters nearby ⓘ |
| hasRailFeature | Spiral Tunnels (nearby on CPR mainline) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
important transportation corridor between Alberta and British Columbia
ⓘ
key route for Canadian Pacific Railway through the Rockies ⓘ |
| isOneOf | lowest railway passes through the main range of the Canadian Rockies ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alberta
ⓘ
British Columbia ⓘ Canadian Rockies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInProtectedArea |
Banff National Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yoho National Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mountainRange | Rocky Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Kicking Horse River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameOrigin | named after an incident in which surveyor James Hector was kicked by a horse ⓘ |
| nearestTown |
Field, British Columbia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lake Louise, Alberta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| onHighway | Highway 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| onRailLine | CPR main line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openedForRailTraffic | 1880s ⓘ |
| partOf | Continental Divide of the Americas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| provinceBoundaryBetween |
Alberta
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
eastern British Columbia
ⓘ
southwestern Alberta ⓘ |
| surveyedBy | James Hector NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| surveyedFor | Canadian Pacific Railway route selection ⓘ |
| traversedBy |
Canadian Pacific Railway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Trans-Canada Highway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageSite | Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
interprovincial rail transport
ⓘ
interprovincial road transport ⓘ |
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: Kicking Horse Pass Description of subject: Kicking Horse Pass is a high mountain pass in the Canadian Rockies, historically significant as a key rail and highway route between British Columbia and Alberta.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Yoho National Park (partly considered within Columbia and Rocky transition)
→
hasPass
→
Kicking Horse Pass
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subject surface form:
Yoho National Park