Ang Lhamu
E206185
Ang Lhamu was the wife of famed Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, who helped make history with the first confirmed ascent of Mount Everest.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ang Lhamu canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1848041 — 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: Ang Lhamu Context triple: [Tenzing Norgay, spouse, Ang Lhamu]
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A.
Nyainqêntanglha Feng
Nyainqêntanglha Feng is a prominent high mountain peak in Tibet, China, known for its dramatic glaciated slopes and significance within the eastern Transhimalayan range.
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B.
Mahameru
Mahameru is the revered local name for Mount Semeru, the highest and one of the most active volcanoes on the island of Java in Indonesia.
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C.
Khumjung
Khumjung is a Sherpa village in Nepal’s Khumbu region, known as a gateway to Everest treks and for its traditional culture and high-altitude setting.
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D.
Gangapurna
Gangapurna is a prominent glaciated peak in the Annapurna Himalayas of north-central Nepal, popular among high-altitude climbers and trekkers.
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E.
Roof of the World
Roof of the World is a famous epithet for the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau, one of the most elevated and expansive regions on Earth.
- 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: Ang Lhamu Target entity description: Ang Lhamu was the wife of famed Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, who helped make history with the first confirmed ascent of Mount Everest.
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A.
Nyainqêntanglha Feng
Nyainqêntanglha Feng is a prominent high mountain peak in Tibet, China, known for its dramatic glaciated slopes and significance within the eastern Transhimalayan range.
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B.
Mahameru
Mahameru is the revered local name for Mount Semeru, the highest and one of the most active volcanoes on the island of Java in Indonesia.
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C.
Khumjung
Khumjung is a Sherpa village in Nepal’s Khumbu region, known as a gateway to Everest treks and for its traditional culture and high-altitude setting.
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D.
Gangapurna
Gangapurna is a prominent glaciated peak in the Annapurna Himalayas of north-central Nepal, popular among high-altitude climbers and trekkers.
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E.
Roof of the World
Roof of the World is a famous epithet for the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau, one of the most elevated and expansive regions on Earth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sherpa
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Nepal (inferred) ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Sherpa people ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Nepali (inferred)
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Sherpa language (inferred) ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of Tenzing Norgay
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first confirmed ascent of Mount Everest ⓘ |
| residence |
Everest region
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surface form:
Khumbu region (inferred)
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| spouse |
Ang Lhamu
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
Tenzing Norgay ⓘ |
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: Ang Lhamu Description of subject: Ang Lhamu was the wife of famed Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, who helped make history with the first confirmed ascent of Mount Everest.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.