named after U.S. Navy officer Robert Shoup
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Shoup Glacier is a glacier in Alaska named in honor of U.S. Navy officer Robert Shoup.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| named after U.S. Navy officer Robert Shoup canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7448669 — 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: named after U.S. Navy officer Robert Shoup Context triple: [Shoup Glacier, hasNameOrigin, named after U.S. Navy officer Robert Shoup]
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A.
USCGC Commodore Barry (WHEC-34) named in his honor
USCGC Commodore Barry (WHEC-34) was a United States Coast Guard high endurance cutter named in honor of Revolutionary War naval hero John Barry.
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B.
McKeen
McKeen is a surname that functions as a variant spelling of the name McKean, commonly of Irish or Scottish origin.
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C.
Stoddert
Stoddert is the middle name of Richard S. Ewell, a Confederate lieutenant general who served prominently in the American Civil War.
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D.
USNS Bob Hope (T-AKR-300) named in his honor
USNS Bob Hope (T-AKR-300) is a United States Navy large, medium-speed roll-on/roll-off cargo ship named after the famed comedian and entertainer Bob Hope.
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E.
Widnall
Widnall is the surname of Sheila Widnall, an American aerospace engineer and former Secretary of the U.S. Air Force.
- 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: named after U.S. Navy officer Robert Shoup Target entity description: Shoup Glacier is a glacier in Alaska named in honor of U.S. Navy officer Robert Shoup.
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A.
USCGC Commodore Barry (WHEC-34) named in his honor
USCGC Commodore Barry (WHEC-34) was a United States Coast Guard high endurance cutter named in honor of Revolutionary War naval hero John Barry.
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B.
McKeen
McKeen is a surname that functions as a variant spelling of the name McKean, commonly of Irish or Scottish origin.
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C.
Stoddert
Stoddert is the middle name of Richard S. Ewell, a Confederate lieutenant general who served prominently in the American Civil War.
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D.
USNS Bob Hope (T-AKR-300) named in his honor
USNS Bob Hope (T-AKR-300) is a United States Navy large, medium-speed roll-on/roll-off cargo ship named after the famed comedian and entertainer Bob Hope.
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E.
Widnall
Widnall is the surname of Sheila Widnall, an American aerospace engineer and former Secretary of the U.S. Air Force.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | glacier ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Shoup Bay ⓘ |
| hasAccessPoint |
boat from Valdez
ⓘ
trails near Valdez ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
crevasses
ⓘ
icefalls ⓘ tidewater face ⓘ |
| hasMouthLocation | Shoup Bay ⓘ |
| hasNearbyFacility | Shoup Bay State Marine Park ⓘ |
| hasStatus | retreating glacier ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alaska
ⓘ
Chugach Mountains ⓘ Prince William Sound region ⓘ
linked to:
Prince William Sound
Valdez-Cordova Census Area ⓘ
linked to:
Valdez–Cordova Census Area
|
| locatedInProtectedArea | Chugach National Forest ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Robert Shoup
ⓘ
U.S. Navy officer Robert Shoup ⓘ |
| namedForReason | honor of U.S. Navy officer Robert Shoup ⓘ |
| near |
Valdez, Alaska
ⓘ
linked to:
Valdez
|
| partOf | Chugach National Forest ⓘ |
| region | Southcentral Alaska ⓘ |
| state | Alaska ⓘ |
| terminusType | tidewater glacier terminus ⓘ |
| usedFor |
hiking
ⓘ
kayaking ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| watercourse | Shoup Bay ⓘ |
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: named after U.S. Navy officer Robert Shoup Description of subject: Shoup Glacier is a glacier in Alaska named in honor of U.S. Navy officer Robert Shoup.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.