White Pass
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White Pass is a mountain pass in the Coast Mountains of Alaska and British Columbia, historically significant as a major route during the Klondike Gold Rush and now known for the White Pass and Yukon Route railway.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| White Pass canonical | 7 |
| White Pass and Yukon Route | 5 |
| White Pass and Yukon Route railway | 2 |
| White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad | 1 |
| White Pass and Yukon Route corridor | 1 |
| White Pass area | 1 |
| White Pass region | 1 |
| White Pass trail | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T809598 — 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: White Pass Context triple: [Skagway, hasNearbyPass, White Pass]
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Fraser Canyon
Fraser Canyon is a dramatic, steep-walled river gorge in British Columbia, Canada, historically significant as a major corridor for transportation, settlement, and resource extraction.
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Forester Pass
Forester Pass is a high mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada of California, renowned as the loftiest point along the Pacific Crest Trail and a challenging milestone for long-distance hikers.
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MacKenzie
MacKenzie is the first name of MacKenzie Scott, the American novelist and philanthropist known for her large-scale charitable giving.
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Donner Pass
Donner Pass is a historically significant mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, known for its challenging terrain, transcontinental railroad route, and the ill-fated Donner Party.
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Applegate–Lassen Route
The Applegate–Lassen Route was an alternative emigrant trail in the mid-19th century that branched off the main California Trail to provide a northern route into California and southern Oregon.
- 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: White Pass Target entity description: White Pass is a mountain pass in the Coast Mountains of Alaska and British Columbia, historically significant as a major route during the Klondike Gold Rush and now known for the White Pass and Yukon Route railway.
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A.
Fraser Canyon
Fraser Canyon is a dramatic, steep-walled river gorge in British Columbia, Canada, historically significant as a major corridor for transportation, settlement, and resource extraction.
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B.
Forester Pass
Forester Pass is a high mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada of California, renowned as the loftiest point along the Pacific Crest Trail and a challenging milestone for long-distance hikers.
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C.
MacKenzie
MacKenzie is the first name of MacKenzie Scott, the American novelist and philanthropist known for her large-scale charitable giving.
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D.
Donner Pass
Donner Pass is a historically significant mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, known for its challenging terrain, transcontinental railroad route, and the ill-fated Donner Party.
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E.
Applegate–Lassen Route
The Applegate–Lassen Route was an alternative emigrant trail in the mid-19th century that branched off the main California Trail to provide a northern route into California and southern Oregon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: White Pass Description of subject: White Pass is a mountain pass in the Coast Mountains of Alaska and British Columbia, historically significant as a major route during the Klondike Gold Rush and now known for the White Pass and Yukon Route railway.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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