Reedy Glacier
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Reedy Glacier is a major Antarctic glacier that drains part of the Transantarctic Mountains and flows southward into the Ross Ice Shelf.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Reedy Glacier canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6418401 — 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: Reedy Glacier Context triple: [Ross Ice Shelf, terminusOf, Reedy Glacier]
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A.
Reid Glacier
Reid Glacier is a mountain glacier on the western slopes of Mount Hood in Oregon, known for its crevassed ice and role in local climbing routes and hydrology.
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B.
Gilkey Glacier
Gilkey Glacier is a large valley glacier in the Juneau Icefield of southeastern Alaska, known for its extensive crevasses and contribution to regional glacial and climate studies.
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C.
Vowell Glacier
Vowell Glacier is a prominent mountain glacier in British Columbia’s Purcell Mountains, known for its dramatic icefields and popularity among climbers and backcountry skiers.
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D.
Woodbury Glacier
Woodbury Glacier is a mountain glacier located within Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park in the Selkirk Mountains of southeastern British Columbia, Canada.
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E.
Haynes Glacier
Haynes Glacier is a large Antarctic glacier that drains into the Amundsen Sea along the coast of West Antarctica.
- 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: Reedy Glacier Target entity description: Reedy Glacier is a major Antarctic glacier that drains part of the Transantarctic Mountains and flows southward into the Ross Ice Shelf.
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A.
Reid Glacier
Reid Glacier is a mountain glacier on the western slopes of Mount Hood in Oregon, known for its crevassed ice and role in local climbing routes and hydrology.
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B.
Gilkey Glacier
Gilkey Glacier is a large valley glacier in the Juneau Icefield of southeastern Alaska, known for its extensive crevasses and contribution to regional glacial and climate studies.
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C.
Vowell Glacier
Vowell Glacier is a prominent mountain glacier in British Columbia’s Purcell Mountains, known for its dramatic icefields and popularity among climbers and backcountry skiers.
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D.
Woodbury Glacier
Woodbury Glacier is a mountain glacier located within Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park in the Selkirk Mountains of southeastern British Columbia, Canada.
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E.
Haynes Glacier
Haynes Glacier is a large Antarctic glacier that drains into the Amundsen Sea along the coast of West Antarctica.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | glacier ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Horner Nunatak
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mount McClintock NERFINISHED ⓘ Mount Rees NERFINISHED ⓘ Rawson Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ Watson Escarpment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| classification | polar glacier ⓘ |
| continent | Antarctica ⓘ |
| countryClaim | unclaimed territory in Antarctica ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | United States Antarctic Research Program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | Transantarctic Mountains interior ice ⓘ |
| drains | Transantarctic Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| environment | polar desert climate ⓘ |
| featureOf | Ross Sea sector of Antarctica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowDirection | southward ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Ross Ice Shelf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPhysicalCharacteristic |
drainage glacier
ⓘ
major outlet glacier ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Antarctica
ⓘ
Marie Byrd Land NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mappedBy | United States Geological Survey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mappedUsing | U.S. Navy air photos ⓘ |
| mappingPeriod | 1959–1965 ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Rear Admiral James R. Reedy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedBy | Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | Amundsen Sea sector boundary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Transantarctic Mountains glacial system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Ross Dependency vicinity ⓘ |
| surfaceType | ice ⓘ |
| terminus | Ross Ice Shelf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Reedy Glacier Description of subject: Reedy Glacier is a major Antarctic glacier that drains part of the Transantarctic Mountains and flows southward into the Ross Ice Shelf.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.