Glacier de Ferpècle (nearby)
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Glacier de Ferpècle is a valley glacier in the Swiss Alps of Valais, lying below the Dent Blanche and flowing toward the Ferpècle valley.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Glacier de Ferpècle (nearby) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5562885 — 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 Ferpècle (nearby) Context triple: [Dent Blanche, hasGlacier, Glacier de Ferpècle (nearby)]
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A.
Eiger Glacier (Eigergletscher, nearby)
Eiger Glacier (Eigergletscher) is a small alpine glacier situated on the slopes near the Eiger in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland.
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B.
Ngozumpa Glacier (nearby)
Ngozumpa Glacier is one of the largest glaciers in the Himalayas, located in Nepal’s Khumbu region below Cho Oyu and known for its extensive debris-covered ice and glacial lakes.
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C.
Glacier du Mont Dolent
Glacier du Mont Dolent is a high-altitude Alpine glacier situated on the flanks of Mont Dolent in the Mont Blanc massif, straddling the borders of France, Italy, and Switzerland.
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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.
Dana Glacier (nearby)
Dana Glacier (nearby) is a small alpine glacier situated on the slopes of Mount Dana in the Sierra Nevada of California.
- 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 Ferpècle (nearby) Target entity description: Glacier de Ferpècle is a valley glacier in the Swiss Alps of Valais, lying below the Dent Blanche and flowing toward the Ferpècle valley.
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A.
Eiger Glacier (Eigergletscher, nearby)
Eiger Glacier (Eigergletscher) is a small alpine glacier situated on the slopes near the Eiger in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland.
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B.
Ngozumpa Glacier (nearby)
Ngozumpa Glacier is one of the largest glaciers in the Himalayas, located in Nepal’s Khumbu region below Cho Oyu and known for its extensive debris-covered ice and glacial lakes.
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C.
Glacier du Mont Dolent
Glacier du Mont Dolent is a high-altitude Alpine glacier situated on the flanks of Mont Dolent in the Mont Blanc massif, straddling the borders of France, Italy, and Switzerland.
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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.
Dana Glacier (nearby)
Dana Glacier (nearby) is a small alpine glacier situated on the slopes of Mount Dana in the Sierra Nevada of California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | valley glacier ⓘ |
| affectedBy | climate change ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | Rhône basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feeds | local mountain streams ⓘ |
| flowsToward | Ferpècle valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAccessPoint | Ferpècle valley road terminus ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
crevasses
ⓘ
glacial tongue ⓘ moraines ⓘ seracs ⓘ |
| hasLanguageRegion | French-speaking Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSeasonalVariation |
summer ablation
ⓘ
winter accumulation ⓘ |
| hasSurface | ice and snow ⓘ |
| isRetreating | true ⓘ |
| isTouristAttraction | true ⓘ |
| liesBelow | Dent Blanche NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Pennine Alps
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Swiss Alps NERFINISHED ⓘ canton of Valais NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInMunicipality | Evolène NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInProtectedArea | Alpine environment of Val d’Hérens ⓘ |
| mountainRange |
Alps
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pennine Alps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near |
Arolla
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dent Blanche NERFINISHED ⓘ Ferpècle dam NERFINISHED ⓘ Glacier du Mont Miné NERFINISHED ⓘ Les Haudères NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Ferpècle–Mont Miné glacial system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Val d’Hérens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| type | temperate glacier ⓘ |
| usedFor |
glaciological studies
ⓘ
hiking destination ⓘ mountaineering access ⓘ |
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 Ferpècle (nearby) Description of subject: Glacier de Ferpècle is a valley glacier in the Swiss Alps of Valais, lying below the Dent Blanche and flowing toward the Ferpècle valley.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.