Mount Murphy
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Mount Murphy is a large, mostly ice-covered volcanic massif in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mount Murphy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11857722 — 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: Mount Murphy Context triple: [Marie Byrd Land volcanic province, hasVolcanicCenter, Mount Murphy]
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A.
Mount Callaghan
Mount Callaghan is a volcanic peak in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, that forms part of the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt within the Coast Mountains.
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B.
Mount Irish Wilderness
Mount Irish Wilderness is a protected mountainous and desert landscape in southeastern Nevada known for its rugged terrain, scenic vistas, and Native American rock art sites.
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C.
Mount Humphreys
Mount Humphreys is a prominent high-elevation peak in the Sierra Nevada of California, popular with climbers for its rugged terrain and alpine scenery.
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D.
Mount Irvine
Mount Irvine is a high Sierra Nevada summit in California, notable as one of the state's fourteen-thousand-foot peaks popular with experienced climbers and mountaineers.
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E.
Mount Belford
Mount Belford is a prominent Colorado fourteener in the Rocky Mountains, popular with hikers for its challenging ascent and sweeping alpine views.
- 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: Mount Murphy Target entity description: Mount Murphy is a large, mostly ice-covered volcanic massif in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica.
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A.
Mount Callaghan
Mount Callaghan is a volcanic peak in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, that forms part of the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt within the Coast Mountains.
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B.
Mount Irish Wilderness
Mount Irish Wilderness is a protected mountainous and desert landscape in southeastern Nevada known for its rugged terrain, scenic vistas, and Native American rock art sites.
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C.
Mount Humphreys
Mount Humphreys is a prominent high-elevation peak in the Sierra Nevada of California, popular with climbers for its rugged terrain and alpine scenery.
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D.
Mount Irvine
Mount Irvine is a high Sierra Nevada summit in California, notable as one of the state's fourteen-thousand-foot peaks popular with experienced climbers and mountaineers.
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E.
Mount Belford
Mount Belford is a prominent Colorado fourteener in the Rocky Mountains, popular with hikers for its challenging ascent and sweeping alpine views.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mountain
ⓘ
volcanic massif ⓘ |
| continent | Antarctica ⓘ |
| country | Antarctica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coveredBy | ice ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | United States Antarctic Service Expedition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveryDate | 1939–1941 ⓘ |
| elevation |
approximately 2700 m
ⓘ
approximately 8858 ft ⓘ |
| geologicalAge | Cenozoic ⓘ |
| geologicalType | shield volcano ⓘ |
| governedBy | Antarctic Treaty System ⓘ |
| hasActivityStatus | possibly extinct ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
large
ⓘ
mostly ice-covered ⓘ |
| hasComposition |
basaltic lavas
ⓘ
pyroclastic rocks ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateSystem | geographic coordinates in degrees of latitude and longitude ⓘ |
| hasGlacialFeature | flanked by outlet glaciers ⓘ |
| hasHumanSettlement | none ⓘ |
| hasResearchInterest |
climate change impacts on ice sheets
ⓘ
glaciology ⓘ volcanology ⓘ |
| hasSlope |
gentler western slopes
ⓘ
steep eastern slopes ⓘ |
| hasSummitFeature | ice-covered summit ⓘ |
| isPartOf | West Antarctic Rift System volcanic belt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isRemote | true ⓘ |
| lastEruption | unknown ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Antarctica
ⓘ
Marie Byrd Land NERFINISHED ⓘ West Antarctica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Walgreen Coast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mappedBy | United States Geological Survey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mappedUsing | U.S. Navy air photos ⓘ |
| mountainRange | Walgreen Coast region of Marie Byrd Land NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Robert Cushman Murphy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameEtymology | named for American ornithologist Robert Cushman Murphy ⓘ |
| near |
Cosgrove Ice Shelf
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Getz Ice Shelf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| overlooks |
Cosgrove Ice Shelf
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
eastern Getz Ice Shelf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Marie Byrd Land volcanic province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| volcanicField | Marie Byrd Land volcanic province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Mount Murphy Description of subject: Mount Murphy is a large, mostly ice-covered volcanic massif in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.