Wawona Tunnel
E174615
Wawona Tunnel is a historic highway tunnel in Yosemite National Park that serves as the dramatic western gateway to the famous Tunnel View overlook of Yosemite Valley.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wawona Tunnel canonical | 4 |
| Wawona Tunnel Tree (fallen) | 1 |
| Wawona Tunnel area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1536154 — 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: Wawona Tunnel Context triple: [Tunnel View, locatedNear, Wawona Tunnel]
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A.
Malinta Tunnel
Malinta Tunnel is a historic underground complex on Corregidor Island in the Philippines that served as a bomb-proof headquarters and hospital for American and Filipino forces during World War II.
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B.
Shela Bagh Tunnel
Shela Bagh Tunnel is a historic railway tunnel in Balochistan, Pakistan, known as one of the longest and most significant tunnels on the region’s mountainous rail routes.
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C.
Robertson Tunnel
Robertson Tunnel is a major light rail tunnel in Portland, Oregon, carrying MAX trains through the West Hills between downtown and the city’s western suburbs.
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D.
Maastunnel
Maastunnel is a historic traffic tunnel in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, carrying road, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic beneath the Nieuwe Maas river.
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E.
Clyde Tunnel
The Clyde Tunnel is a road tunnel in Glasgow, Scotland, carrying vehicular traffic beneath the River Clyde to connect the city’s north and south banks.
- 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: Wawona Tunnel Target entity description: Wawona Tunnel is a historic highway tunnel in Yosemite National Park that serves as the dramatic western gateway to the famous Tunnel View overlook of Yosemite Valley.
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A.
Malinta Tunnel
Malinta Tunnel is a historic underground complex on Corregidor Island in the Philippines that served as a bomb-proof headquarters and hospital for American and Filipino forces during World War II.
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B.
Shela Bagh Tunnel
Shela Bagh Tunnel is a historic railway tunnel in Balochistan, Pakistan, known as one of the longest and most significant tunnels on the region’s mountainous rail routes.
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C.
Robertson Tunnel
Robertson Tunnel is a major light rail tunnel in Portland, Oregon, carrying MAX trains through the West Hills between downtown and the city’s western suburbs.
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D.
Maastunnel
Maastunnel is a historic traffic tunnel in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, carrying road, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic beneath the Nieuwe Maas river.
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E.
Clyde Tunnel
The Clyde Tunnel is a road tunnel in Glasgow, Scotland, carrying vehicular traffic beneath the River Clyde to connect the city’s north and south banks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
highway tunnel
ⓘ
historic place ⓘ infrastructure ⓘ road tunnel ⓘ |
| builtFor | improving automobile access to Yosemite Valley ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1931 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| feature |
arched portals
ⓘ
rock-lined interior ⓘ ventilation galleries ⓘ |
| givesAccessTo |
Tunnel View
ⓘ
Yosemite Valley ⓘ |
| hasDirection |
eastbound
ⓘ
westbound ⓘ |
| hasHeritageDesignation | historic resource of Yosemite National Park ⓘ |
| hasLighting | interior electric lighting ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | Wawona, California ⓘ |
| hasScenicImportance | gateway to one of the most famous viewpoints in Yosemite National Park ⓘ |
| inception | 1933 ⓘ |
| isOnRoute | western approach to Yosemite Valley via State Route 41 ⓘ |
| length |
0.75 miles
ⓘ
1.2 kilometers ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Mariposa County ⓘ
surface form:
Mariposa County, California
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Yosemite National Park ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Bridalveil Fall
ⓘ
Cathedral Rocks ⓘ El Capitan ⓘ Tunnel View ⓘ
surface form:
Tunnel View overlook
|
| maintainedBy | National Park Service ⓘ |
| materialUsed | granite ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dramatic western entrance view of Yosemite Valley
ⓘ
scenic approach to Tunnel View ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1933 ⓘ |
| partOf | California State Route 41 ⓘ |
| passesThrough | granite ridge on the south side of Yosemite Valley ⓘ |
| roadType | two-lane road ⓘ |
| usedFor |
tourist access to Yosemite Valley
ⓘ
vehicular traffic ⓘ |
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: Wawona Tunnel Description of subject: Wawona Tunnel is a historic highway tunnel in Yosemite National Park that serves as the dramatic western gateway to the famous Tunnel View overlook of Yosemite Valley.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Wawona Tunnel area
this entity surface form:
Wawona Tunnel Tree (fallen)