Finsteraar Glacier
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Finsteraar Glacier is a major valley glacier in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland, known for its remote high-alpine setting beneath peaks such as the Finsteraarhorn and Lauteraarhorn.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Finsteraar Glacier canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5750726 — 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: Finsteraar Glacier Context triple: [Lauteraarhorn, nearGlacier, Finsteraar Glacier]
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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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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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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.
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Lauteraar Glacier
Lauteraar Glacier is a major valley glacier in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland, flowing beneath peaks such as the Schreckhorn and feeding into the Unteraar Glacier system.
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Perunika Glacier
Perunika Glacier is a glacier located on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica, known from Bulgarian Antarctic mapping and research.
- 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: Finsteraar Glacier Target entity description: Finsteraar Glacier is a major valley glacier in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland, known for its remote high-alpine setting beneath peaks such as the Finsteraarhorn and Lauteraarhorn.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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.
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D.
Lauteraar Glacier
Lauteraar Glacier is a major valley glacier in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland, flowing beneath peaks such as the Schreckhorn and feeding into the Unteraar Glacier system.
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E.
Perunika Glacier
Perunika Glacier is a glacier located on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica, known from Bulgarian Antarctic mapping and research.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | valley glacier ⓘ |
| accessPoint |
Fiesch
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Grindelwald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characteristic |
heavily crevassed
ⓘ
remote location ⓘ surrounded by 4000-metre peaks ⓘ |
| climateZone | alpine climate ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | Aare river basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| drainsInto | Aletsch Glacier system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevationRange | high-alpine ⓘ |
| fedBy |
Agassizhorn
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Finsteraarhorn NERFINISHED ⓘ Gross Wannenhorn NERFINISHED ⓘ Grünhorn NERFINISHED ⓘ Lauteraarhorn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsTowards | Aletsch Glacier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glaciologicalStatus | retreating ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage | Finsteraargletscher (German) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hazard |
crevasses
ⓘ
seracs ⓘ |
| languageOfToponym | German ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bernese Alps
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bernese Oberland NERFINISHED ⓘ canton of Bern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInProtectedArea | Jungfrau-Aletsch protected area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnMountainRange | Bernese Alps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near |
Agassizhorn
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Finsteraarhorn NERFINISHED ⓘ Finsteraarhorn Hut NERFINISHED ⓘ Gross Wannenhorn NERFINISHED ⓘ Grünhorn NERFINISHED ⓘ Lauteraarhorn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Aletsch Glacier basin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
UNESCO World Heritage Site Jungfrau-Aletsch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | central Alps ⓘ |
| sourceOf | Fiescher Lütschine headwaters ⓘ |
| surfaceType | ice ⓘ |
| tourismType | alpine tourism ⓘ |
| usedFor |
glacier touring
ⓘ
high-alpine mountaineering ⓘ ski mountaineering ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Finsteraar Glacier Description of subject: Finsteraar Glacier is a major valley glacier in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland, known for its remote high-alpine setting beneath peaks such as the Finsteraarhorn and Lauteraarhorn.
Referenced by (1)
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