Into Thin Air

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nonfiction book

Into Thin Air is Jon Krakauer’s nonfiction account of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, detailing the deadly expedition he joined and the broader risks and ethics of high-altitude climbing.

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Label	Occurrences
Into Thin Air canonical	8
Into Thin Air: Death on Everest	2
Into Thin Air (book)	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10366534 — 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: Into Thin Air
Context triple: [Everest (2015 film), basedOn, Into Thin Air]

A. Into Thin Air
"Into Thin Air" is a song titled after Jon Krakauer’s famous Everest disaster book, likely evoking themes of danger, loss, or disappearance.
B. Touching the Void
Touching the Void is a British docudrama film that recounts the harrowing true story of two climbers’ near-fatal ascent of the Peruvian Andes.
C. Everest the Hard Way
Everest the Hard Way is a mountaineering book by British climber Chris Bonington that chronicles the 1975 British expedition’s pioneering ascent of Everest’s formidable Southwest Face.
D. Americans on Everest
Americans on Everest is a nonfiction account of the first successful American expedition to climb Mount Everest, written by mountaineering author James Ramsey Ullman.
E. Camp 2
Camp 2 is a high-altitude staging camp on Denali’s West Buttress route, used by climbers as a key acclimatization and logistics point during their ascent.
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: Into Thin Air
Target entity description: Into Thin Air is Jon Krakauer’s nonfiction account of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, detailing the deadly expedition he joined and the broader risks and ethics of high-altitude climbing.

A. Into Thin Air
"Into Thin Air" is a song titled after Jon Krakauer’s famous Everest disaster book, likely evoking themes of danger, loss, or disappearance.
B. Touching the Void
Touching the Void is a British docudrama film that recounts the harrowing true story of two climbers’ near-fatal ascent of the Peruvian Andes.
C. Everest the Hard Way
Everest the Hard Way is a mountaineering book by British climber Chris Bonington that chronicles the 1975 British expedition’s pioneering ascent of Everest’s formidable Southwest Face.
D. Americans on Everest
Americans on Everest is a nonfiction account of the first successful American expedition to climb Mount Everest, written by mountaineering author James Ramsey Ullman.
E. Camp 2
Camp 2 is a high-altitude staging camp on Denali’s West Buttress route, used by climbers as a key acclimatization and logistics point during their ascent.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	nonfiction book ⓘ
adaptationType	television film ⓘ
author	Jon Krakauer ⓘ
awarded	Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize ⓘ Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature ⓘ Time magazine Best Book of the Year (nonfiction) ⓘ
basedOn	Jon Krakauer’s experience on 1996 Everest expedition ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
criticalReception	generally positive ⓘ
describesEvent	blizzard on Mount Everest in May 1996 ⓘ deaths of climbers during 1996 Everest season ⓘ
expandedFrom	“Into Thin Air” article in Outside magazine ⓘ
featuresOrganization	Adventure Consultants ⓘ linked to: Adventure Consultants expedition Mountain Madness ⓘ
featuresPerson	Anatoli Boukreev ⓘ Doug Hansen ⓘ Rob Hall ⓘ Scott Fischer ⓘ Yasuko Namba ⓘ
followedBy	Into the Wild (in Krakauer’s major nonfiction works) ⓘ linked to: Into the Wild (book)
genre	adventure literature ⓘ mountaineering literature ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ
hasAdaptation	Into Thin Air: Death on Everest ⓘ linked to: Into Thin Air
isbn	0-679-45752-6 ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
mainCharacter	Jon Krakauer ⓘ
mediaType	print ⓘ
narrativePerspective	first-person ⓘ
notableFor	controversy over portrayal of Anatoli Boukreev ⓘ detailed account of 1996 Everest disaster ⓘ
pageCount	approximately 300 ⓘ
publicationYear	1997 ⓘ
publisher	Anchor Books ⓘ Villard ⓘ
sales	bestseller in the United States ⓘ
settingLocation	Mount Everest ⓘ Nepal ⓘ
settingTime	May 1996 ⓘ
subject	1996 Mount Everest disaster ⓘ Mount Everest ⓘ high-altitude mountaineering ⓘ mountaineering ethics ⓘ
theme	commercialization of Everest ⓘ decision-making under stress ⓘ ethics of guided expeditions ⓘ risk in extreme sports ⓘ survivor guilt ⓘ

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Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Everest (2015 film) → basedOn → Into Thin Air ⓘ

Everest → basedOn → Into Thin Air ⓘ

Jon Krakauer → notableWork → Into Thin Air ⓘ

Into Thin Air → title → Into Thin Air ⓘ

Into Thin Air → inspiredBy → Into Thin Air (book) ⓘ

linked to: Into Thin Air

1996 Mount Everest disaster → notableAccount → Into Thin Air ⓘ

1996 Mount Everest disaster → subjectOfBook → Into Thin Air ⓘ

1996 Mount Everest disaster → subjectOfFilm → Into Thin Air: Death on Everest ⓘ

linked to: Into Thin Air

Into Thin Air → hasAdaptation → Into Thin Air: Death on Everest ⓘ

linked to: Into Thin Air

Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest → relatedWork → Into Thin Air ⓘ

Climbing High → relatedWork → Into Thin Air ⓘ

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