Devil's Staircase
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Devil's Staircase is a steep and scenic mountain pass in the Scottish Highlands, popular with hikers on the West Highland Way near Kinlochleven.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Devil's Staircase canonical | 1 |
| Devil’s Staircase | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9767061 — 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: Devil's Staircase Context triple: [Kinlochleven, hasNearbyPass, Devil's Staircase]
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A.
Potemkin Stairs
Potemkin Stairs is a monumental 19th-century seaside staircase in Odesa, Ukraine, famed as a symbol of the city and for its iconic appearance in Sergei Eisenstein’s film "Battleship Potemkin."
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B.
Giant Stairway
The Giant Stairway is a steep walking track in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, that descends from the Three Sisters near Echo Point into the Jamison Valley via hundreds of steps and ladders.
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C.
Jordan Staircase
The Jordan Staircase is a grand, richly decorated ceremonial staircase in the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, renowned for its opulent Baroque architecture and role in imperial court rituals.
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D.
Neptune's Staircase
Neptune's Staircase is a famous series of canal locks in Scotland that dramatically raises boats along the Caledonian Canal near Fort William.
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E.
Corkscrew
Corkscrew is a steel roller coaster at Michigan’s Adventure known for its signature double-inversion corkscrew elements.
- 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: Devil's Staircase Target entity description: Devil's Staircase is a steep and scenic mountain pass in the Scottish Highlands, popular with hikers on the West Highland Way near Kinlochleven.
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A.
Potemkin Stairs
Potemkin Stairs is a monumental 19th-century seaside staircase in Odesa, Ukraine, famed as a symbol of the city and for its iconic appearance in Sergei Eisenstein’s film "Battleship Potemkin."
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B.
Giant Stairway
The Giant Stairway is a steep walking track in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, that descends from the Three Sisters near Echo Point into the Jamison Valley via hundreds of steps and ladders.
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C.
Jordan Staircase
The Jordan Staircase is a grand, richly decorated ceremonial staircase in the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, renowned for its opulent Baroque architecture and role in imperial court rituals.
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D.
Neptune's Staircase
Neptune's Staircase is a famous series of canal locks in Scotland that dramatically raises boats along the Caledonian Canal near Fort William.
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E.
Corkscrew
Corkscrew is a steel roller coaster at Michigan’s Adventure known for its signature double-inversion corkscrew elements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hiking route segment
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mountain pass ⓘ |
| accessFrom |
A82 near Kingshouse
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Kinlochleven ⓘ |
| connects |
Kingshouse
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Kinlochleven ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| difficulty | moderate to strenuous ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 548 metres ⓘ |
| feature |
waymarked trail
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zigzag path ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic | scenic ⓘ |
| hasTerrain | steep ⓘ |
| hasViewOf |
Glencoe mountains
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Rannoch Moor ⓘ |
| hazard |
exposure to bad weather
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steep ascent ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Scotland
ⓘ
Scottish Highlands ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| near |
Glencoe
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Kinlochleven ⓘ |
| notableFor |
challenging climb on the West Highland Way
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panoramic Highland views ⓘ |
| partOf |
Grampian Mountains region
ⓘ
linked to:
Grampian Mountains
West Highland Way ⓘ |
| popularWith | hikers ⓘ |
| routeSectionOf |
Kinlochleven to Kingshouse section of the West Highland Way
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linked to:
West Highland Way
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| surface | rough hill path ⓘ |
| tourismType | outdoor recreation ⓘ |
| usedFor |
hiking
ⓘ
walking ⓘ |
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: Devil's Staircase Description of subject: Devil's Staircase is a steep and scenic mountain pass in the Scottish Highlands, popular with hikers on the West Highland Way near Kinlochleven.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Devil's Staircase