Tahoma Glacier
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Tahoma Glacier is a major glacier on the western flank of Mount Rainier in Washington State, known for its extensive ice cover and contribution to the mountain’s rugged glacial landscape.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tahoma Glacier canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1413167 — 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: Tahoma Glacier Context triple: [Mount Rainier, hasGlacier, Tahoma Glacier]
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A.
Clark Glacier
Clark Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of the Three Sisters volcanic peaks in the Cascade Range of Oregon.
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B.
Hotlum Glacier
Hotlum Glacier is a prominent mountain glacier on the northeastern flank of Mount Shasta in California, known as one of the mountain’s largest and most active ice masses.
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C.
Wheeler Peak Glacier
Wheeler Peak Glacier is a small alpine glacier nestled on the slopes of Wheeler Peak in Nevada’s Snake Range, notable as one of the southernmost glaciers in the United States.
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D.
Newton Clark Glacier
Newton Clark Glacier is a prominent alpine glacier on the eastern slopes of Mount Hood in Oregon, known for its crevassed terrain and challenging mountaineering routes.
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E.
Squaw Glacier
Squaw Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of the Three Sisters volcanic peaks in the Cascade Range of Oregon.
- 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: Tahoma Glacier Target entity description: Tahoma Glacier is a major glacier on the western flank of Mount Rainier in Washington State, known for its extensive ice cover and contribution to the mountain’s rugged glacial landscape.
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A.
Clark Glacier
Clark Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of the Three Sisters volcanic peaks in the Cascade Range of Oregon.
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B.
Hotlum Glacier
Hotlum Glacier is a prominent mountain glacier on the northeastern flank of Mount Shasta in California, known as one of the mountain’s largest and most active ice masses.
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C.
Wheeler Peak Glacier
Wheeler Peak Glacier is a small alpine glacier nestled on the slopes of Wheeler Peak in Nevada’s Snake Range, notable as one of the southernmost glaciers in the United States.
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D.
Newton Clark Glacier
Newton Clark Glacier is a prominent alpine glacier on the eastern slopes of Mount Hood in Oregon, known for its crevassed terrain and challenging mountaineering routes.
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E.
Squaw Glacier
Squaw Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of the Three Sisters volcanic peaks in the Cascade Range of Oregon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
glacier
ⓘ
mountain glacier ⓘ |
| contributesTo |
rugged glacial landscape of Mount Rainier
ⓘ
sediment transport on western slopes of Mount Rainier ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| drainsFrom | upper western slopes of Mount Rainier ⓘ |
| flowsDirection | generally westward ⓘ |
| hasClimateZone | maritime mountain climate ⓘ |
| hasEnvironment | alpine ⓘ |
| hasGeologicalSetting |
Mount Rainier
ⓘ
surface form:
stratovolcano Mount Rainier
|
| hasHazard |
avalanches
ⓘ
crevasses ⓘ icefall ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfName | English ⓘ |
| hasProcess |
crevasse formation
ⓘ
glacial erosion ⓘ ice flow ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceFeature | extensive ice cover ⓘ |
| influences | local hydrology of western Mount Rainier ⓘ |
| isFeatureOf | Mount Rainier National Park ⓘ |
| isMajorGlacierOf | Mount Rainier ⓘ |
| isMonitoredBy |
National Park Service
ⓘ
glaciologists studying Mount Rainier ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Washington State
|
| locatedOn | Mount Rainier ⓘ |
| locatedOnFlankOf | western flank of Mount Rainier ⓘ |
| mountainRange | Cascade Range ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Tahoma ⓘ |
| partOf |
Mount Rainier National Park glacial system
ⓘ
Mount Rainier glacial system ⓘ |
| protectedWithin | Mount Rainier National Park ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| subjectOf | glaciological studies on Mount Rainier ⓘ |
| typeOfMassBalance | temperate glacier ⓘ |
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: Tahoma Glacier Description of subject: Tahoma Glacier is a major glacier on the western flank of Mount Rainier in Washington State, known for its extensive ice cover and contribution to the mountain’s rugged glacial landscape.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.