White Salmon Glacier
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White Salmon Glacier is a prominent glacier on the slopes of Mount Adams in Washington State, known for its alpine ice and role in feeding local watersheds.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Klickitat Glacier | 1 |
| Trout Glacier | 1 |
| White Salmon Glacier canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1512339 — 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: White Salmon Glacier Context triple: [Mount Adams, hasGlacier, White Salmon Glacier]
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A.
Squaw Glacier
Squaw 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.
White River Glacier
White River Glacier is a mountain glacier on the southeastern flank of Mount Hood in Oregon, known for its crevasses, icefalls, and role in feeding the White River watershed.
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C.
Emmons Glacier
Emmons Glacier is the largest glacier by area in the contiguous United States, flowing down the eastern flank of Mount Rainier in Washington State.
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D.
Portage Glacier
Portage Glacier is a prominent valley glacier in Alaska known for its scenic lake, visitor center, and accessibility from the Anchorage area.
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E.
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.
- 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: White Salmon Glacier Target entity description: White Salmon Glacier is a prominent glacier on the slopes of Mount Adams in Washington State, known for its alpine ice and role in feeding local watersheds.
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A.
Squaw Glacier
Squaw 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.
White River Glacier
White River Glacier is a mountain glacier on the southeastern flank of Mount Hood in Oregon, known for its crevasses, icefalls, and role in feeding the White River watershed.
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C.
Emmons Glacier
Emmons Glacier is the largest glacier by area in the contiguous United States, flowing down the eastern flank of Mount Rainier in Washington State.
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D.
Portage Glacier
Portage Glacier is a prominent valley glacier in Alaska known for its scenic lake, visitor center, and accessibility from the Anchorage area.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
glacier
ⓘ
mountain glacier ⓘ |
| climateZone | maritime-influenced alpine climate ⓘ |
| contributesTo | regional hydrology ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| drainsInto | White Salmon River watershed ⓘ |
| feeds | local watersheds ⓘ |
| geologicalType | alpine glacier ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
backcountry skiing
ⓘ
glacier travel ⓘ mountaineering ⓘ |
| hasFeature | alpine ice ⓘ |
| hasHazard |
crevasses
ⓘ
icefall ⓘ |
| hasProcess | glacial meltwater production ⓘ |
| isAccessedFrom | South Climb area of Mount Adams ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cascade Range
ⓘ
Gifford Pinchot National Forest ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Washington ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Mount Adams ⓘ |
| mountain | Mount Adams ⓘ |
| namedAfter | White Salmon River ⓘ |
| onVolcano | Mount Adams stratovolcano ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cascade Range volcanic province
ⓘ
surface form:
Cascade Volcanoes region
Mount Adams glacial system ⓘ |
| positionOnMountain | southwest slope of Mount Adams ⓘ |
| region | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| surfaceType | ice and snow ⓘ |
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: White Salmon Glacier Description of subject: White Salmon Glacier is a prominent glacier on the slopes of Mount Adams in Washington State, known for its alpine ice and role in feeding local watersheds.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Klickitat Glacier
this entity surface form:
Trout Glacier