North Sister
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North Sister is the eroded northernmost stratovolcano of Oregon’s Three Sisters in the Cascade Range, known for its rugged, glaciated peak and challenging alpine climbs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| North Sister canonical | 26 |
| North Sister volcanic cone | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T550187 — 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: North Sister Context triple: [Three Sisters, hasPart, North Sister]
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A.
Mount Bachelor
Mount Bachelor is a prominent volcanic peak in central Oregon known for its large ski resort and extensive winter recreation opportunities.
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B.
Mount Hood
Mount Hood is a prominent potentially active stratovolcano in northern Oregon and a major landmark and recreation destination in the Cascade Range.
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C.
Mount Baker
Mount Baker is an active glaciated stratovolcano in the North Cascades of Washington State, known for its heavy snowfall and prominent, snow-covered peak.
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D.
Paulina Peak
Paulina Peak is a prominent high-elevation viewpoint in central Oregon offering expansive vistas over the Newberry Volcano and surrounding landscapes.
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E.
Monte Lipman
Monte Lipman is an American music industry executive best known as the co-founder and longtime leader of Republic Records, one of the most successful labels in contemporary popular music.
- 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: North Sister Target entity description: North Sister is the eroded northernmost stratovolcano of Oregon’s Three Sisters in the Cascade Range, known for its rugged, glaciated peak and challenging alpine climbs.
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A.
Mount Bachelor
Mount Bachelor is a prominent volcanic peak in central Oregon known for its large ski resort and extensive winter recreation opportunities.
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B.
Mount Hood
Mount Hood is a prominent potentially active stratovolcano in northern Oregon and a major landmark and recreation destination in the Cascade Range.
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C.
Mount Baker
Mount Baker is an active glaciated stratovolcano in the North Cascades of Washington State, known for its heavy snowfall and prominent, snow-covered peak.
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D.
Paulina Peak
Paulina Peak is a prominent high-elevation viewpoint in central Oregon offering expansive vistas over the Newberry Volcano and surrounding landscapes.
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E.
Monte Lipman
Monte Lipman is an American music industry executive best known as the co-founder and longtime leader of Republic Records, one of the most successful labels in contemporary popular music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mountain
ⓘ
stratovolcano ⓘ volcanic peak ⓘ |
| age | Pleistocene ⓘ |
| climbingClassification | challenging alpine climb ⓘ |
| climbingHazard |
exposed sections
ⓘ
loose rock ⓘ seasonal ice and snow ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Deschutes County ⓘ |
| elevation |
about 10,085 feet
ⓘ
about 3074 meters ⓘ |
| firstAscent | 19th century (exact date uncertain) ⓘ |
| geologicalProvince | Cascade Volcanic Arc ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
glaciated slopes
ⓘ
rocky ridges ⓘ steep faces ⓘ |
| hasGlacier |
Collier Glacier
ⓘ
surface form:
Collier Glacier (on its west side, shared with Middle Sister)
|
| hasNearbyTrailhead |
Obsidian Limited Entry Area
ⓘ
surface form:
Obsidian Trailhead
Pole Creek Trailhead ⓘ |
| hasRelativeLocation |
north of Middle Sister
ⓘ
north of South Sister ⓘ |
| hasSiblingPeak |
Middle Sister
ⓘ
South Sister ⓘ |
| hasSummitDifficulty | often considered the most difficult of the Three Sisters to climb ⓘ |
| hasSummitFeature |
heavily eroded summit
ⓘ
rugged peak ⓘ |
| isVisibleFrom |
Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway
ⓘ
surface form:
Cascade Lakes Highway
McKenzie Pass ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Oregon
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedInMountainRange | Cascade Range ⓘ |
| mountainType | eroded stratovolcano ⓘ |
| nameLanguage | English ⓘ |
| nearestTown | Sisters, Oregon ⓘ |
| partOf | Three Sisters ⓘ |
| popularFor |
alpine climbing
ⓘ
backcountry skiing (nearby areas) ⓘ mountaineering ⓘ |
| positionInGroup | northernmost of the Three Sisters ⓘ |
| prominence | approximately 1,500 feet ⓘ |
| region | Central Oregon Cascades ⓘ |
| rockType |
andesite
ⓘ
basaltic andesite ⓘ |
| state | Oregon ⓘ |
| volcanoStatus | extinct or greatly eroded ⓘ |
| withinProtectedArea | Deschutes National Forest ⓘ |
| withinWildernessArea | Three Sisters Wilderness ⓘ |
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: North Sister Description of subject: North Sister is the eroded northernmost stratovolcano of Oregon’s Three Sisters in the Cascade Range, known for its rugged, glaciated peak and challenging alpine climbs.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
North Sister volcanic cone