Ampère Seamount
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Ampère Seamount is an underwater mountain in the Atlantic Ocean named in honor of the French physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ampère Seamount canonical | 1 |
| Ampère Seamount Complex | 1 |
| Ampère Seamount Plateau | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1380642 — 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: Ampère Seamount Context triple: [André-Marie Ampère, eponymOf, Ampère Seamount]
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A.
Magnaghi Seamount
Magnaghi Seamount is an underwater volcanic mountain located in the Tyrrhenian Sea, part of the complex seafloor topography of the western Mediterranean.
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B.
Suiko Seamount
Suiko Seamount is an underwater volcanic mountain in the northwestern Pacific Ocean that forms part of the long, age-progressive Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain.
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C.
Vavilov Seamount
Vavilov Seamount is a large underwater volcanic mountain located in the Tyrrhenian Sea, notable for its role in the region’s complex tectonic and magmatic activity.
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D.
Marsili Seamount
Marsili Seamount is a large, active submarine volcano in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea and one of the most prominent volcanic structures in the Mediterranean.
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E.
Meiji Seamount
Meiji Seamount is a large, ancient underwater volcano located at the northern end of the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain in the North Pacific Ocean.
- 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: Ampère Seamount Target entity description: Ampère Seamount is an underwater mountain in the Atlantic Ocean named in honor of the French physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère.
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A.
Magnaghi Seamount
Magnaghi Seamount is an underwater volcanic mountain located in the Tyrrhenian Sea, part of the complex seafloor topography of the western Mediterranean.
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B.
Suiko Seamount
Suiko Seamount is an underwater volcanic mountain in the northwestern Pacific Ocean that forms part of the long, age-progressive Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain.
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C.
Vavilov Seamount
Vavilov Seamount is a large underwater volcanic mountain located in the Tyrrhenian Sea, notable for its role in the region’s complex tectonic and magmatic activity.
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D.
Marsili Seamount
Marsili Seamount is a large, active submarine volcano in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea and one of the most prominent volcanic structures in the Mediterranean.
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E.
Meiji Seamount
Meiji Seamount is a large, ancient underwater volcano located at the northern end of the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain in the North Pacific Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
seamount
ⓘ
undersea mountain ⓘ |
| belongsTo | international waters ⓘ |
| countryClosestTo | Portugal ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeafloor | approximately 3000 m ⓘ |
| environment |
deep sea
ⓘ
marine ⓘ |
| featureOf |
Tharp-Heezen Seamounts in the Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
surface form:
North Atlantic seamount province
|
| geologicalOrigin | volcanic ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateSystem | geographic coordinates ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
flat-topped summit
ⓘ
steep flanks ⓘ |
| hasHabitat |
deep-sea coral communities
ⓘ
fish aggregations ⓘ sponge grounds ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
local ocean currents
ⓘ
regional biodiversity patterns ⓘ |
| hasSeafloorType |
hard substrate areas
ⓘ
sediment-covered slopes ⓘ |
| isMappedIn | nautical charts of the North Atlantic ⓘ |
| isReferencedIn |
marine geology literature
ⓘ
oceanographic databases ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf |
bathymetric mapping
ⓘ
biological sampling campaigns ⓘ oceanographic surveys ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
Atlantic Ocean ⓘ
surface form:
North Atlantic Ocean
|
| locatedOn |
Ampère Seamount
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Ampère Seamount Plateau
|
| locatedSouthOf | Azores ⓘ |
| locatedSouthwestOf | Portugal mainland ⓘ |
| locatedWestOf | Morocco ⓘ |
| namedAfter | André-Marie Ampère ⓘ |
| namedBy | marine geologists ⓘ |
| namingReason | to honor André-Marie Ampère ⓘ |
| oceanBasin | North Atlantic Basin ⓘ |
| partOf |
Ampère Seamount
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Ampère Seamount Complex
Mid-Atlantic seamount chain ⓘ |
| studiedFor |
benthic ecosystems
ⓘ
marine geology ⓘ ocean circulation ⓘ |
| summitDepth |
approximately 55 m
ⓘ
less than 100 m ⓘ |
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: Ampère Seamount Description of subject: Ampère Seamount is an underwater mountain in the Atlantic Ocean named in honor of the French physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ampère Seamount Complex
this entity surface form:
Ampère Seamount Plateau