Glacier du Tacul
E350172
Glacier du Tacul is a high-altitude Alpine glacier on the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps, known for its crevassed icefalls and popularity among mountaineers and climbers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Glacier du Tacul canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2947548 — 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: Glacier du Tacul Context triple: [Mont-Blanc glacial system, hasPart, Glacier du Tacul]
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A.
Miage Glacier
Miage Glacier is a large valley glacier on the Italian side of the Mont Blanc massif, notable for its extensive debris-covered surface.
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B.
Findel Glacier
Findel Glacier is a large valley glacier near Zermatt in the Swiss Pennine Alps, known for its dramatic ice flows and views of surrounding high peaks such as the Monte Rosa massif.
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C.
Glacier du Géant
Glacier du Géant is a major high-altitude glacier in the Mont Blanc massif of the Alps, known for feeding the famous Mer de Glace and for its dramatic crevassed icefields popular with mountaineers.
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D.
Aneto glacier
The Aneto glacier is the largest glacier in the Pyrenees, lying on the northern slopes of Aneto, the range’s highest peak.
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E.
Tré-la-Tête Glacier
Tré-la-Tête Glacier is a major alpine glacier located on the southern side of the Mont Blanc massif in the Graian Alps of France and Italy.
- 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: Glacier du Tacul Target entity description: Glacier du Tacul is a high-altitude Alpine glacier on the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps, known for its crevassed icefalls and popularity among mountaineers and climbers.
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A.
Miage Glacier
Miage Glacier is a large valley glacier on the Italian side of the Mont Blanc massif, notable for its extensive debris-covered surface.
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B.
Findel Glacier
Findel Glacier is a large valley glacier near Zermatt in the Swiss Pennine Alps, known for its dramatic ice flows and views of surrounding high peaks such as the Monte Rosa massif.
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C.
Glacier du Géant
Glacier du Géant is a major high-altitude glacier in the Mont Blanc massif of the Alps, known for feeding the famous Mer de Glace and for its dramatic crevassed icefields popular with mountaineers.
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D.
Aneto glacier
The Aneto glacier is the largest glacier in the Pyrenees, lying on the northern slopes of Aneto, the range’s highest peak.
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E.
Tré-la-Tête Glacier
Tré-la-Tête Glacier is a major alpine glacier located on the southern side of the Mont Blanc massif in the Graian Alps of France and Italy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Alpine glacier
ⓘ
glacier ⓘ |
| accessPoint |
Aiguille du Midi cable car line
ⓘ
surface form:
Aiguille du Midi cable car
|
| climateZone | alpine climate ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | Arve river basin ⓘ |
| elevationType | high-altitude ⓘ |
| environmentType | high mountain environment ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
crevassed icefalls
ⓘ
heavily crevassed surface ⓘ seracs ⓘ |
| hazard |
avalanches
ⓘ
crevasse falls ⓘ serac collapse ⓘ |
| languageOfToponym | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
France
ⓘ
French Alps ⓘ Mont Blanc massif ⓘ |
| locatedNearBorderWith |
Italy
ⓘ
Switzerland ⓘ |
| mountainRange | Mont Blanc massif ⓘ |
| near |
Aiguille du Midi
ⓘ
Mont Blanc du Tacul ⓘ Vallée Blanche glacier ⓘ
surface form:
Vallée Blanche
|
| partOf |
Haute-Savoie
ⓘ
Mont-Blanc glacial system ⓘ
surface form:
Mont Blanc massif glacial system
Mont Blanc massif glaciers on the French side ⓘ |
| popularWith |
climbers
ⓘ
mountaineers ⓘ |
| region |
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region
ⓘ
surface form:
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
|
| terrain |
glaciated
ⓘ
steep ice slopes ⓘ |
| usedFor |
glacier travel training
ⓘ
ice climbing ⓘ mountaineering ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Glacier du Tacul Description of subject: Glacier du Tacul is a high-altitude Alpine glacier on the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps, known for its crevassed icefalls and popularity among mountaineers and climbers.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.