Avalanche Pass
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Avalanche Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, traversing the rugged terrain of the Great Western Divide and serving as a route for backcountry hikers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Avalanche Pass canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1417060 — 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: Avalanche Pass Context triple: [Great Western Divide, hasPass, Avalanche Pass]
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A.
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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B.
Harrison Pass
Harrison Pass is a high mountain pass in Nevada that provides a key crossing through the Ruby Mountains.
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C.
Colby Pass
Colby Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada that provides a rugged backcountry route between major river basins in Sequoia-Kings Canyon wilderness.
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D.
Kirkstone Pass
Kirkstone Pass is a high mountain pass in England’s Lake District, known for its steep, scenic road linking Ambleside and Patterdale through dramatic fell landscapes.
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E.
Tioga Pass
Tioga Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, best known as the eastern entrance to Yosemite National Park and one of the highest paved roads in the state.
- 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: Avalanche Pass Target entity description: Avalanche Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, traversing the rugged terrain of the Great Western Divide and serving as a route for backcountry hikers.
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A.
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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B.
Harrison Pass
Harrison Pass is a high mountain pass in Nevada that provides a key crossing through the Ruby Mountains.
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C.
Colby Pass
Colby Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada that provides a rugged backcountry route between major river basins in Sequoia-Kings Canyon wilderness.
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D.
Kirkstone Pass
Kirkstone Pass is a high mountain pass in England’s Lake District, known for its steep, scenic road linking Ambleside and Patterdale through dramatic fell landscapes.
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E.
Tioga Pass
Tioga Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, best known as the eastern entrance to Yosemite National Park and one of the highest paved roads in the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
high mountain pass
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mountain pass ⓘ |
| accessedBy | hiking trail ⓘ |
| accessedFrom | Roads End trailhead ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| hazard |
avalanche danger in winter
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snow and ice conditions ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
Kings Canyon National Park ⓘ Sierra Nevada ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| managedBy |
National Park Service
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surface form:
U.S. National Park Service
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| mountainRange | Sierra Nevada ⓘ |
| partOf | Great Western Divide ⓘ |
| recreationActivity |
backpacking
ⓘ
hiking ⓘ |
| requires | wilderness permit for overnight trips ⓘ |
| season | typically accessed in summer ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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| terrainType | rugged terrain ⓘ |
| traverses | Great Western Divide ⓘ |
| usedFor |
backcountry hiking
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wilderness travel ⓘ |
| within |
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
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surface form:
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks administrative unit
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| withinProtectedArea |
Kings Canyon National Park
ⓘ
surface form:
Kings Canyon National Park wilderness
|
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: Avalanche Pass Description of subject: Avalanche Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, traversing the rugged terrain of the Great Western Divide and serving as a route for backcountry hikers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.