Alta, Utah
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Alta, Utah is a small mountain town in the Wasatch Range renowned for its deep, powdery snowfall and world-class skiing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alta, Utah canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8095930 — 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: Alta, Utah Context triple: [Alta Ski Area, locatedIn, Alta, Utah]
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A.
Uintah, Utah
Uintah, Utah is a small census-designated community in northern Utah situated near the Weber River and the Wasatch Mountains.
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B.
Escalante, Utah
Escalante, Utah is a small gateway town in southern Utah known for its proximity to Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument and surrounding plateaus, canyons, and desert landscapes.
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C.
Erda, Utah
Erda, Utah is a small unincorporated community in northern Tooele County, known for its rural character and proximity to the Salt Lake City metropolitan area.
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D.
Alpine, Utah
Alpine, Utah is a small, affluent city at the base of the Wasatch Range known for its scenic mountain views and residential, family-oriented community.
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E.
Tooele, Utah
Tooele, Utah is a small city in Tooele County that serves as a suburban community west of Salt Lake City along Utah’s Wasatch Front.
- 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: Alta, Utah Target entity description: Alta, Utah is a small mountain town in the Wasatch Range renowned for its deep, powdery snowfall and world-class skiing.
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A.
Uintah, Utah
Uintah, Utah is a small census-designated community in northern Utah situated near the Weber River and the Wasatch Mountains.
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B.
Escalante, Utah
Escalante, Utah is a small gateway town in southern Utah known for its proximity to Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument and surrounding plateaus, canyons, and desert landscapes.
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C.
Erda, Utah
Erda, Utah is a small unincorporated community in northern Tooele County, known for its rural character and proximity to the Salt Lake City metropolitan area.
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D.
Alpine, Utah
Alpine, Utah is a small, affluent city at the base of the Wasatch Range known for its scenic mountain views and residential, family-oriented community.
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E.
Tooele, Utah
Tooele, Utah is a small city in Tooele County that serves as a suburban community west of Salt Lake City along Utah’s Wasatch Front.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ski resort town
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| avalancheRisk | significant in surrounding backcountry ⓘ |
| climate | alpine climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county | Salt Lake County ⓘ |
| distanceFromSaltLakeCity | approximately 25 miles southeast ⓘ |
| elevation |
approximately 2600 meters above sea level
ⓘ
approximately 8500 feet above sea level ⓘ |
| governingBody | Town of Alta government ⓘ |
| hasAccommodationType |
lodges
ⓘ
ski hotels ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
high-elevation environment
ⓘ
steep mountain terrain ⓘ subalpine forests ⓘ |
| hasSkiResort | Alta Ski Area ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Alta Ski Area
ⓘ
backcountry skiing access ⓘ deep powder snow ⓘ heavy annual snowfall ⓘ world-class skiing ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Salt Lake County, Utah
ⓘ
linked to:
Salt Lake County
Wasatch Mountains ⓘ
linked to:
Wasatch Range
Wasatch Range ⓘ northern Utah ⓘ |
| locatedInCanyon | Little Cottonwood Canyon ⓘ |
| near |
Snowbird, Utah
ⓘ
Wasatch-Cache National Forest ⓘ |
| partOf | Salt Lake City metropolitan area ⓘ |
| popularActivity |
alpine skiing
ⓘ
backcountry skiing ⓘ snowboarding (in surrounding areas) ⓘ snowshoeing ⓘ |
| popularSeason | winter ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicActivity |
ski industry
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| region | Intermountain West ⓘ |
| skiTerrainType | primarily advanced and expert terrain ⓘ |
| snowfallCharacteristic |
high annual snow accumulation
ⓘ
light, powdery snow ⓘ |
| state | Utah ⓘ |
| summerActivity |
hiking
ⓘ
mountain biking (in surrounding areas) ⓘ wildflower viewing ⓘ |
| timeZone | Mountain Time Zone ⓘ |
| tourismSeasonality | winter-dominated tourism ⓘ |
| transportAccess | Little Cottonwood Canyon Road ⓘ |
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: Alta, Utah Description of subject: Alta, Utah is a small mountain town in the Wasatch Range renowned for its deep, powdery snowfall and world-class skiing.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.