Colter Pass, Montana
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Colter Pass, Montana is a small mountain community near Cooke City that serves as a gateway to the Beartooth Mountains and the northeastern entrance region of Yellowstone National Park.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Colter Pass, Montana canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7790564 — 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: Colter Pass, Montana Context triple: [Cooke City, Montana, hasNearbyCommunity, Colter Pass, Montana]
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A.
Cottonwood Pass
Cottonwood Pass is a high mountain pass in central Colorado that crosses the Continental Divide, offering scenic views and access between the towns of Buena Vista and Taylor Park.
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B.
South Pass
South Pass is a broad, gently sloping mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming that served as a crucial gateway for westward migration in 19th-century America.
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C.
McKenzie Pass
McKenzie Pass is a scenic mountain pass in Oregon’s Cascade Range known for its volcanic landscapes, panoramic views of nearby peaks, and access to hiking and cycling routes.
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D.
Kicking Horse Pass
Kicking Horse Pass is a high mountain pass in the Canadian Rockies, historically significant as a key rail and highway route between British Columbia and Alberta.
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E.
Horseshoe Pass
Horseshoe Pass is a scenic mountain pass in North Wales known for its winding road, dramatic views, and popularity with tourists and motorists.
- 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: Colter Pass, Montana Target entity description: Colter Pass, Montana is a small mountain community near Cooke City that serves as a gateway to the Beartooth Mountains and the northeastern entrance region of Yellowstone National Park.
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A.
Cottonwood Pass
Cottonwood Pass is a high mountain pass in central Colorado that crosses the Continental Divide, offering scenic views and access between the towns of Buena Vista and Taylor Park.
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B.
South Pass
South Pass is a broad, gently sloping mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming that served as a crucial gateway for westward migration in 19th-century America.
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C.
McKenzie Pass
McKenzie Pass is a scenic mountain pass in Oregon’s Cascade Range known for its volcanic landscapes, panoramic views of nearby peaks, and access to hiking and cycling routes.
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D.
Kicking Horse Pass
Kicking Horse Pass is a high mountain pass in the Canadian Rockies, historically significant as a key rail and highway route between British Columbia and Alberta.
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E.
Horseshoe Pass
Horseshoe Pass is a scenic mountain pass in North Wales known for its winding road, dramatic views, and popularity with tourists and motorists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
census-designated place
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mountain community ⓘ unincorporated community ⓘ |
| accesses | Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| areaCode | 406 ⓘ |
| climate | subalpine climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| county | Park County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 8000 feet ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryEconomicActivity |
outdoor recreation services
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| hasRole |
gateway to Yellowstone National Park
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gateway to the Beartooth Mountains ⓘ |
| hasSeasonalPattern |
long snowy winters
ⓘ
short cool summers ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Montana
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Park County, Montana NERFINISHED ⓘ Rocky Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Beartooth Mountains
NERFINISHED
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Cooke City, Montana NERFINISHED ⓘ Northeast Entrance Station of Yellowstone National Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Silver Gate, Montana NERFINISHED ⓘ Yellowstone National Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Beartooth Highway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 212 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | John Colter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearestMajorCity | Cody, Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Cooke City–Silver Gate–Colter Pass area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| popularFor |
backcountry skiing
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fishing ⓘ hiking ⓘ snowmobiling ⓘ wildlife viewing ⓘ |
| postalCode | 59020 ⓘ |
| state | Montana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | Mountain Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | Mountain Daylight Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transportationRouteFor | travel between Montana and Yellowstone’s Northeast Entrance ⓘ |
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: Colter Pass, Montana Description of subject: Colter Pass, Montana is a small mountain community near Cooke City that serves as a gateway to the Beartooth Mountains and the northeastern entrance region of Yellowstone National Park.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.