Murchison Glacier
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Murchison Glacier is a large valley glacier in New Zealand’s Southern Alps, flowing from the slopes near Aoraki / Mount Cook and contributing to the region’s alpine glacial landscape.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Murchison Glacier canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6201870 — 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: Murchison Glacier Context triple: [Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park, contains, Murchison Glacier]
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Mackenzie Glacier
Mackenzie Glacier is a glacier located on Laurie Island in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica.
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Lyell Glacier
Lyell Glacier is a rapidly retreating mountain glacier in Yosemite National Park, historically the largest glacier in the park and situated on the slopes of Mount Lyell in the Sierra Nevada of California.
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Lyell Glacier
Lyell Glacier is a prominent glacier located within the Allardyce Range on the subantarctic island of South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
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Tyndall Glacier
Tyndall Glacier is one of the main equatorial glaciers on Mount Kenya, notable for its rapid retreat and importance to local hydrology and climate studies.
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E.
Renfrew Glacier
Renfrew Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of the Three Sisters volcanic peaks in the Cascade Range of Oregon.
- 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: Murchison Glacier Target entity description: Murchison Glacier is a large valley glacier in New Zealand’s Southern Alps, flowing from the slopes near Aoraki / Mount Cook and contributing to the region’s alpine glacial landscape.
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A.
Mackenzie Glacier
Mackenzie Glacier is a glacier located on Laurie Island in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica.
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B.
Lyell Glacier
Lyell Glacier is a rapidly retreating mountain glacier in Yosemite National Park, historically the largest glacier in the park and situated on the slopes of Mount Lyell in the Sierra Nevada of California.
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C.
Lyell Glacier
Lyell Glacier is a prominent glacier located within the Allardyce Range on the subantarctic island of South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
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D.
Tyndall Glacier
Tyndall Glacier is one of the main equatorial glaciers on Mount Kenya, notable for its rapid retreat and importance to local hydrology and climate studies.
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E.
Renfrew Glacier
Renfrew Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of the Three Sisters volcanic peaks in the Cascade Range of Oregon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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: Murchison Glacier Description of subject: Murchison Glacier is a large valley glacier in New Zealand’s Southern Alps, flowing from the slopes near Aoraki / Mount Cook and contributing to the region’s alpine glacial landscape.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.