Wapta Icefield
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Wapta Icefield is a large glacial icefield in the Canadian Rockies spanning the Continental Divide and feeding several major valley glaciers and lakes in Yoho and Banff National Parks.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wapta Icefield canonical | 6 |
| Wapta Icefield–Waputik Icefield glacial system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7180874 — 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: Wapta Icefield Context triple: [Yoho National Park, hasGlacier, Wapta Icefield]
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A.
Columbia Icefield
Columbia Icefield is a vast glacial expanse in the Canadian Rockies, known as one of the largest icefields in North America and a major source of several important glaciers and rivers.
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B.
Homathko Icefield
Homathko Icefield is a large, remote icefield in the southern Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, known for its extensive glaciation and rugged alpine terrain.
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C.
Northern Icefield
The Northern Icefield is one of the principal remaining ice caps atop Mount Kilimanjaro, notable for its rapidly retreating tropical glaciers.
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D.
Wapta Mountain
Wapta Mountain is a prominent peak in the Canadian Rockies located within Yoho National Park in British Columbia, Canada.
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E.
Ha-Iltzuk Icefield
Ha-Iltzuk Icefield is a large glacial icefield in the central Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, known for its extensive ice cover and rugged alpine terrain.
- 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: Wapta Icefield Target entity description: Wapta Icefield is a large glacial icefield in the Canadian Rockies spanning the Continental Divide and feeding several major valley glaciers and lakes in Yoho and Banff National Parks.
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A.
Columbia Icefield
Columbia Icefield is a vast glacial expanse in the Canadian Rockies, known as one of the largest icefields in North America and a major source of several important glaciers and rivers.
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B.
Homathko Icefield
Homathko Icefield is a large, remote icefield in the southern Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, known for its extensive glaciation and rugged alpine terrain.
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C.
Northern Icefield
The Northern Icefield is one of the principal remaining ice caps atop Mount Kilimanjaro, notable for its rapidly retreating tropical glaciers.
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D.
Wapta Mountain
Wapta Mountain is a prominent peak in the Canadian Rockies located within Yoho National Park in British Columbia, Canada.
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E.
Ha-Iltzuk Icefield
Ha-Iltzuk Icefield is a large glacial icefield in the central Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, known for its extensive ice cover and rugged alpine terrain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Wapta Icefield Description of subject: Wapta Icefield is a large glacial icefield in the Canadian Rockies spanning the Continental Divide and feeding several major valley glaciers and lakes in Yoho and Banff National Parks.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Wapta Icefield