Mount Whitney
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Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States, located in the Sierra Nevada range of eastern California.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mount Whitney canonical | 50 |
| Mount Whitney summit | 3 |
| Mount Whitney (highest U.S. state high point) | 1 |
| Mount Whitney region | 1 |
| Mount Whitney summit massif | 1 |
| USGS Mount Whitney | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1372 — 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: Mount Whitney Context triple: [California, highestPoint, Mount Whitney]
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Douglas
Douglas is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
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Las Campanas Observatory
Las Campanas Observatory is a major astronomical observatory in Chile renowned for its high-quality observing conditions and its role in cutting-edge optical and infrared astronomy.
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California, United States
California, United States is a large and populous U.S. state on the West Coast known for its diverse geography, major technology and entertainment industries, and cultural and economic influence.
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D.
Hudson River
The Hudson River is a major waterway in eastern New York State that flows south past cities like Albany and New York City before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at New York Harbor.
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E.
Oregon State University
Oregon State University is a public research university in Corvallis, Oregon, known for its strong programs in engineering, forestry, and agricultural sciences.
- 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: Mount Whitney Target entity description: Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States, located in the Sierra Nevada range of eastern California.
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A.
Douglas
Douglas is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
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B.
Cape Cod
Cape Cod is a hook-shaped peninsula in southeastern Massachusetts known for its sandy beaches, maritime villages, and popular summer tourism.
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C.
Las Campanas Observatory
Las Campanas Observatory is a major astronomical observatory in Chile renowned for its high-quality observing conditions and its role in cutting-edge optical and infrared astronomy.
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D.
California, United States
California, United States is a large and populous U.S. state on the West Coast known for its diverse geography, major technology and entertainment industries, and cultural and economic influence.
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E.
Delano
Delano is the middle name of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Mount Whitney Description of subject: Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States, located in the Sierra Nevada range of eastern California.
Referenced by (57)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.