Alta
E188984
Alta is a small mountain town in Utah best known for its world-class powder skiing at Alta Ski Area in the Wasatch Range.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alta canonical | 1 |
| Town of Alta government | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1656213 — 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: Alta Context triple: [Salt Lake County, contains, Alta]
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A.
Alta
Alta is a town in northern Norway known for its Arctic location, winter sports, and proximity to the Northern Lights.
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B.
Arrah
Arrah is a historic town in the Indian state of Bihar, known for its role as a key site of conflict during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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C.
Madera
Madera is a city in California’s San Joaquin Valley known primarily as the administrative and economic center of Madera County.
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D.
Sierra Alta
Sierra Alta is a mountainous region in the Mexican state of Hidalgo known for its rugged terrain and rural communities.
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E.
Deseret
Deseret is a small unincorporated community in Millard County, Utah, historically associated with early Latter-day Saint settlement in the region.
- 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: Alta Target entity description: Alta is a small mountain town in Utah best known for its world-class powder skiing at Alta Ski Area in the Wasatch Range.
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A.
Alta
Alta is a town in northern Norway known for its Arctic location, winter sports, and proximity to the Northern Lights.
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B.
Arrah
Arrah is a historic town in the Indian state of Bihar, known for its role as a key site of conflict during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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C.
Madera
Madera is a city in California’s San Joaquin Valley known primarily as the administrative and economic center of Madera County.
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D.
Sierra Alta
Sierra Alta is a mountainous region in the Mexican state of Hidalgo known for its rugged terrain and rural communities.
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E.
Deseret
Deseret is a small unincorporated community in Millard County, Utah, historically associated with early Latter-day Saint settlement in the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
ski resort ⓘ town ⓘ |
| climate | alpine climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Salt Lake County ⓘ |
| currency |
US dollar
ⓘ
surface form:
United States dollar
|
| governingBody |
Alta
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Town of Alta government
|
| hasAttraction |
Alta Ski Area
ⓘ
Wasatch-Cache National Forest ⓘ |
| hasElevation | approximately 8,500 feet above sea level ⓘ |
| hasNearbyCity | Salt Lake City ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 84092 ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryIndustry |
ski tourism
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| hasSkiResort | Alta Ski Area ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Alta Ski Area
ⓘ
deep powder snow ⓘ expert terrain ⓘ powder skiing ⓘ |
| locatedEastOf | Salt Lake City ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alta, Utah
ⓘ
Wasatch Range ⓘ
surface form:
Wasatch Mountains
Wasatch Range ⓘ Wasatch Range ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Mountain Time Zone ⓘ |
| nearestAirport | Salt Lake City International Airport ⓘ |
| nearestCity | Salt Lake City ⓘ |
| partOf |
Wasatch Front
ⓘ
surface form:
Wasatch Front region
|
| receives | heavy annual snowfall ⓘ |
| region | western United States ⓘ |
| snowboardPolicy | snowboarding not permitted ⓘ |
| snowType | light, dry powder ⓘ |
| state |
Utah
ⓘ
Utah ⓘ |
| summerActivity |
hiking
ⓘ
mountain biking (in surrounding areas) ⓘ wildflower viewing ⓘ |
| transportationAccess | Utah State Route 210 ⓘ |
| winterActivity |
alpine skiing
ⓘ
alpine skiing ⓘ backcountry skiing ⓘ snowboarding (restricted at Alta Ski Area but possible nearby) ⓘ |
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: Alta Description of subject: Alta is a small mountain town in Utah best known for its world-class powder skiing at Alta Ski Area in the Wasatch Range.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Alta, Utah
this entity surface form:
Town of Alta government