Avalanche
E179926
Avalanche is a steel bobsled roller coaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in England, known for its twisting, trackless-style course that simulates an Olympic bobsleigh run.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Avalanche canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1579682 — 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 Context triple: [Blackpool Pleasure Beach, hasAttraction, Avalanche]
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A.
Avalanche
Avalanche is the codename for Operation Avalanche, the Allied invasion of mainland Italy during World War II that began with the Salerno landings in September 1943.
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B.
Avalanche and Blizzard
Avalanche and Blizzard are the high-performance and efficiency CPU core designs, respectively, used in Apple's second-generation M2 system-on-a-chip.
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C.
Avalanche Pass
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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D.
The Slopes
The Slopes is a historic landscaped park in Buxton, Derbyshire, known for its terraced walks, ornamental gardens, and views over the town’s spa architecture.
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E.
Thunder Snow
Thunder Snow is a prominent Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning back-to-back Dubai World Cups in 2018 and 2019.
- 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 Target entity description: Avalanche is a steel bobsled roller coaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in England, known for its twisting, trackless-style course that simulates an Olympic bobsleigh run.
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A.
Avalanche
Avalanche is the codename for Operation Avalanche, the Allied invasion of mainland Italy during World War II that began with the Salerno landings in September 1943.
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B.
Avalanche and Blizzard
Avalanche and Blizzard are the high-performance and efficiency CPU core designs, respectively, used in Apple's second-generation M2 system-on-a-chip.
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C.
Avalanche Pass
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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D.
The Slopes
The Slopes is a historic landscaped park in Buxton, Derbyshire, known for its terraced walks, ornamental gardens, and views over the town’s spa architecture.
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E.
Thunder Snow
Thunder Snow is a prominent Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning back-to-back Dubai World Cups in 2018 and 2019.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
amusement ride
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bobsled roller coaster ⓘ steel roller coaster ⓘ |
| brakeRunType | friction brakes ⓘ |
| capacityPerTrain | 28 riders ⓘ |
| carsPerTrain | 7 ⓘ |
| category |
Bobsled roller coasters
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Roller coasters in the United Kingdom ⓘ Roller coasters introduced in 1988 ⓘ Steel roller coasters ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| designer | Werner Stengel ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
enclosed station building
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individual bobsled-style cars ⓘ intertwining helixes ⓘ |
| height |
18 m
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59 ft ⓘ |
| inversions | 0 ⓘ |
| length |
1160 ft
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353 m ⓘ |
| liftHillCount | 1 ⓘ |
| liftType | chain lift hill ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Blackpool
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Blackpool Pleasure Beach ⓘ England ⓘ Lancashire ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Mack Rides ⓘ |
| material | steel ⓘ |
| maxSpeed |
45 mph
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72 km/h ⓘ |
| minimumHeightRestriction | 120 cm ⓘ |
| model | Bobsled Coaster ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the only bobsled coaster in the United Kingdom
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twisting trough-style course ⓘ |
| numberOfTrains | 3 ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1988-06-22 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Blackpool Pleasure Beach ⓘ |
| owner | Blackpool Pleasure Beach ⓘ |
| parkSection | North Park ⓘ |
| restraintType | lap bar ⓘ |
| ridersPerRow | 2 ⓘ |
| rowsPerCar | 2 ⓘ |
| simulates | Olympic bobsleigh run ⓘ |
| status | operating ⓘ |
| theme | Olympic bobsleigh ⓘ |
| trackType | trackless-style trough ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: Avalanche is a steel bobsled roller coaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in England, known for its twisting, trackless-style course that simulates an Olympic bobsleigh run.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.