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 (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kicking Horse Pass canonical | 8 |
| Kicking Horse Pass "Big Hill" route | 1 |
| Kicking Horse Pass at the Alberta border | 1 |
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
ⓘ
British Columbia ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| crosses | Continental Divide ⓘ |
| designatedAs | National Historic Site of Canada ⓘ |
| designationYear | 1971 ⓘ |
| drainageDivideBetween |
Bow River basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Bow River
Kicking Horse River basin ⓘ
linked to:
Kicking Horse River
|
| elevation |
1627 metres
ⓘ
5340 feet ⓘ |
| hasFeature | Kicking Horse River headwaters nearby ⓘ |
| hasRailFeature |
Spiral Tunnels (nearby on CPR mainline)
ⓘ
linked to:
Spiral Tunnels
|
| 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 ⓘ
linked to:
Rocky Mountains
|
| locatedInProtectedArea |
Banff National Park
ⓘ
Yoho National Park ⓘ |
| mountainRange | Rocky Mountains ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Kicking Horse River ⓘ |
| nameOrigin | named after an incident in which surveyor James Hector was kicked by a horse ⓘ |
| nearestTown |
Field, British Columbia
ⓘ
Lake Louise, Alberta ⓘ
linked to:
Lake Louise
|
| onHighway | Highway 1 ⓘ |
| onRailLine |
CPR main line
ⓘ
linked to:
CPR
|
| openedForRailTraffic | 1880s ⓘ |
| partOf |
Continental Divide of the Americas
ⓘ
linked to:
Continental Divide
|
| provinceBoundaryBetween |
Alberta
ⓘ
British Columbia ⓘ |
| region |
eastern British Columbia
ⓘ
southwestern Alberta ⓘ |
| surveyedBy |
James Hector
ⓘ
linked to:
Sir James Hector
|
| surveyedFor | Canadian Pacific Railway route selection ⓘ |
| traversedBy |
Canadian Pacific Railway
ⓘ
Trans-Canada Highway ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageSite | Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks ⓘ |
| 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 (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Yoho National Park (partly considered within Columbia and Rocky transition)
linked to: Kicking Horse Pass
linked to: Kicking Horse Pass