The Ear
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The Ear is a distinctive rock formation on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, serving as a notable feature along the Salathé Wall climbing route.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Ear canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2590097 — 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: The Ear Context triple: [Salathé Wall, followsFeature, The Ear]
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A.
Big Ears
Big Ears is a wise, bearded brownie from Enid Blyton’s Noddy stories who lives in a toadstool house and often helps Noddy with advice and guidance.
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B.
The Peg
The Peg is a colloquial nickname for Winnipeg, the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Manitoba.
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C.
Gorgophone
Gorgophone is a figure in Greek mythology, traditionally known as a daughter of Perseus and Andromeda and noted as one of the first women to remarry after being widowed.
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D.
The Cradle
The Cradle is an 1872 Impressionist painting by Berthe Morisot depicting a tender scene of a mother watching over her sleeping child, and is considered one of her most celebrated works.
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E.
The Gund
The Gund is the former name of Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, a major indoor sports and entertainment arena in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.
- 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: The Ear Target entity description: The Ear is a distinctive rock formation on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, serving as a notable feature along the Salathé Wall climbing route.
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A.
Big Ears
Big Ears is a wise, bearded brownie from Enid Blyton’s Noddy stories who lives in a toadstool house and often helps Noddy with advice and guidance.
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B.
The Peg
The Peg is a colloquial nickname for Winnipeg, the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Manitoba.
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C.
Gorgophone
Gorgophone is a figure in Greek mythology, traditionally known as a daughter of Perseus and Andromeda and noted as one of the first women to remarry after being widowed.
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D.
The Cradle
The Cradle is an 1872 Impressionist painting by Berthe Morisot depicting a tender scene of a mother watching over her sleeping child, and is considered one of her most celebrated works.
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E.
The Gund
The Gund is the former name of Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, a major indoor sports and entertainment arena in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
climbing route feature
ⓘ
rock formation ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Yosemite big wall climbing history
ⓘ
first ascent of Salathé Wall ⓘ |
| featureOf |
Salathé Wall on El Capitan
ⓘ
surface form:
Salathé Wall climbing route
big wall climbing on El Capitan ⓘ |
| geologicalType | granite formation ⓘ |
| hasAccessActivity | technical rock climbing ⓘ |
| hasClimbingDiscipline |
aid climbing
ⓘ
traditional climbing ⓘ |
| hasLanguageName | English ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | named for its ear-like appearance ⓘ |
| inProtectedArea | Yosemite National Park ⓘ |
| isOnRoute |
Salathé Wall
ⓘ
a major route on El Capitan ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
El Capitan ⓘ Mariposa County ⓘ
surface form:
Mariposa County, California
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Yosemite National Park ⓘ Yosemite Valley ⓘ |
| material | granite ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a key landmark on the Salathé Wall route
ⓘ
distinctive rock shape ⓘ |
| partOf |
Salathé Wall
ⓘ
the southwest face of El Capitan ⓘ |
| tourismType | climbing tourism ⓘ |
| usedFor | rock climbing ⓘ |
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: The Ear Description of subject: The Ear is a distinctive rock formation on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, serving as a notable feature along the Salathé Wall climbing route.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.