Asulkan Glacier
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Asulkan Glacier is a prominent mountain glacier in British Columbia’s Glacier National Park, known for its alpine scenery and popular backcountry skiing and mountaineering routes.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Asulkan Glacier canonical | 2 |
| Cheekye Glacier | 1 |
| Mamquam Glacier | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5216456 — 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: Asulkan Glacier Context triple: [Glacier National Park (Canada), contains, Asulkan Glacier]
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A.
Sörling Glacier
Sörling Glacier is a glacier located in the Allardyce Range on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
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B.
Findel Glacier
Findel Glacier is a large valley glacier near Zermatt in the Swiss Pennine Alps, known for its dramatic ice flows and views of surrounding high peaks such as the Monte Rosa massif.
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C.
Tustumena Glacier
Tustumena Glacier is a large valley glacier on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, known for its dramatic ice fields and role in shaping Tustumena Lake and the surrounding landscape.
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D.
Shoup Glacier
Shoup Glacier is a tidewater glacier in Alaska known for its dramatic ice formations and scenic fjord setting near Prince William Sound.
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E.
Verila Glacier
Verila Glacier is a glacier on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica, known as part of the island’s extensive glacial system.
- 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: Asulkan Glacier Target entity description: Asulkan Glacier is a prominent mountain glacier in British Columbia’s Glacier National Park, known for its alpine scenery and popular backcountry skiing and mountaineering routes.
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A.
Sörling Glacier
Sörling Glacier is a glacier located in the Allardyce Range on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
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B.
Findel Glacier
Findel Glacier is a large valley glacier near Zermatt in the Swiss Pennine Alps, known for its dramatic ice flows and views of surrounding high peaks such as the Monte Rosa massif.
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C.
Tustumena Glacier
Tustumena Glacier is a large valley glacier on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, known for its dramatic ice fields and role in shaping Tustumena Lake and the surrounding landscape.
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D.
Shoup Glacier
Shoup Glacier is a tidewater glacier in Alaska known for its dramatic ice formations and scenic fjord setting near Prince William Sound.
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E.
Verila Glacier
Verila Glacier is a glacier on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica, known as part of the island’s extensive glacial system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
glacier
ⓘ
mountain glacier ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| drainsInto | Asulkan Brook ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateRegion | interior British Columbia ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentType | alpine environment ⓘ |
| hasHazard |
avalanche hazard
ⓘ
crevasse hazard ⓘ serac fall hazard ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | Asulkan Valley ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
alpine scenery
ⓘ
crevassed glacier surface ⓘ surrounding high alpine peaks ⓘ |
| hasRecreationActivity |
alpine climbing
ⓘ
backcountry skiing ⓘ glacier travel ⓘ hiking ⓘ mountaineering ⓘ ski mountaineering ⓘ |
| hasSeason |
spring ski mountaineering season
ⓘ
summer mountaineering season ⓘ winter backcountry ski season ⓘ |
| hasSnowType | maritime-influenced snowpack ⓘ |
| isAccessedFrom |
Asulkan Trail
ⓘ
linked to:
Asulkan Valley Trail
Rogers Pass visitor area ⓘ
linked to:
Rogers Pass Discovery Centre
|
| isAccessedVia | Asulkan Valley ⓘ |
| isInProtectedAreaType | national park ⓘ |
| isInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| isManagedFor |
conservation
ⓘ
recreation ⓘ |
| isNearby | Asulkan Hut ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Columbia River headwaters region
ⓘ
linked to:
Columbia River Basin
|
| isPopularWith |
alpine climbers
ⓘ
backcountry skiers ⓘ mountaineers ⓘ |
| isSubjectTo | glacial retreat due to climate change ⓘ |
| isWithinJurisdictionOf | Parks Canada ⓘ |
| locatedIn | British Columbia ⓘ |
| locatedInMountainRange | Selkirk Mountains ⓘ |
| locatedInProtectedArea | Glacier National Park (Canada) ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Columbia Mountains ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Rogers Pass ⓘ |
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: Asulkan Glacier Description of subject: Asulkan Glacier is a prominent mountain glacier in British Columbia’s Glacier National Park, known for its alpine scenery and popular backcountry skiing and mountaineering routes.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Asulkan Glacier
linked to: Asulkan Glacier