Amundsen Glacier
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Amundsen Glacier is a major Antarctic glacier that flows from the interior of the continent into the Ross Ice Shelf.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Amundsen Glacier canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6418398 — 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: Amundsen Glacier Context triple: [Ross Ice Shelf, terminusOf, Amundsen Glacier]
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A.
Neumayer Glacier
Neumayer Glacier is a major glacier in South Georgia that drains the slopes of the Allardyce Range toward the island’s northern coast.
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B.
Otto Sverdrup Glacier
Otto Sverdrup Glacier is a large tidewater glacier in northeastern Greenland named after the Norwegian explorer Otto Sverdrup.
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C.
Nordenskjöld Glacier
Nordenskjöld Glacier is a major glacier on South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean, known for its dramatic ice flows descending from the island’s central mountains to the sea.
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D.
Amalia Glacier
Amalia Glacier is a tidewater glacier in southern Chile, known for its dramatic calving front and rapid retreat along the edge of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field.
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E.
Herbert Glacier
Herbert Glacier is a valley glacier near Juneau, Alaska, known for its accessible hiking trails and striking ice formations within the Juneau Icefield region.
- 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: Amundsen Glacier Target entity description: Amundsen Glacier is a major Antarctic glacier that flows from the interior of the continent into the Ross Ice Shelf.
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A.
Neumayer Glacier
Neumayer Glacier is a major glacier in South Georgia that drains the slopes of the Allardyce Range toward the island’s northern coast.
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B.
Otto Sverdrup Glacier
Otto Sverdrup Glacier is a large tidewater glacier in northeastern Greenland named after the Norwegian explorer Otto Sverdrup.
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C.
Nordenskjöld Glacier
Nordenskjöld Glacier is a major glacier on South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean, known for its dramatic ice flows descending from the island’s central mountains to the sea.
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D.
Amalia Glacier
Amalia Glacier is a tidewater glacier in southern Chile, known for its dramatic calving front and rapid retreat along the edge of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field.
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E.
Herbert Glacier
Herbert Glacier is a valley glacier near Juneau, Alaska, known for its accessible hiking trails and striking ice formations within the Juneau Icefield region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | glacier ⓘ |
| continent | Antarctica ⓘ |
| countryClaim | New Zealand ⓘ |
| drainsFrom | interior of Antarctica ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Ross Ice Shelf ⓘ |
| hasClimate | cold desert ⓘ |
| hasEnvironment | polar ⓘ |
| hasEponymNationality | Norwegian ⓘ |
| hasEponymOccupation | explorer ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
crevassed surface
ⓘ
ice stream ⓘ |
| hasGeneralDirection | toward Ross Ice Shelf ⓘ |
| hasLocationRelativeTo | flows northward from Antarctic interior ⓘ |
| hasNameLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasSurface | ice ⓘ |
| hasTerminus | Ross Ice Shelf ⓘ |
| isMajor | true ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Antarctic glacial system
ⓘ
linked to:
Antarctic cryosphere
|
| isSubjectOf |
Antarctic mapping surveys
ⓘ
glaciological research ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Antarctica
ⓘ
Ross Dependency ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Roald Amundsen ⓘ |
| partOf |
Transantarctic Mountains region
ⓘ
linked to:
Transantarctic Mountains
|
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: Amundsen Glacier Description of subject: Amundsen Glacier is a major Antarctic glacier that flows from the interior of the continent into the Ross Ice Shelf.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.