Rogers Pass
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Rogers Pass is a high mountain pass in British Columbia’s Selkirk Mountains, renowned as a key transportation corridor and historic route for the Canadian Pacific Railway.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rogers Pass canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5216454 — 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: Rogers Pass Context triple: [Glacier National Park (Canada), contains, Rogers Pass]
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A.
McKenzie Pass
McKenzie Pass is a scenic mountain pass in Oregon’s Cascade Range known for its volcanic landscapes, panoramic views of nearby peaks, and access to hiking and cycling routes.
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B.
Kirkstone Pass
Kirkstone Pass is a high mountain pass in England’s Lake District, known for its steep, scenic road linking Ambleside and Patterdale through dramatic fell landscapes.
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C.
Yellowhead Pass
Yellowhead Pass is a major mountain pass in the Canadian Rockies that serves as a key transportation corridor between Alberta and British Columbia.
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D.
Kicking Horse Pass
Kicking Horse Pass is a high mountain pass in the Canadian Rockies, historically significant as a key rail and highway route between British Columbia and Alberta.
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E.
Thompson Pass
Thompson Pass is a high mountain pass in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains, noted for its extreme snowfall and role as a key route between the coast and the state’s interior.
- 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: Rogers Pass Target entity description: Rogers Pass is a high mountain pass in British Columbia’s Selkirk Mountains, renowned as a key transportation corridor and historic route for the Canadian Pacific Railway.
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A.
McKenzie Pass
McKenzie Pass is a scenic mountain pass in Oregon’s Cascade Range known for its volcanic landscapes, panoramic views of nearby peaks, and access to hiking and cycling routes.
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B.
Kirkstone Pass
Kirkstone Pass is a high mountain pass in England’s Lake District, known for its steep, scenic road linking Ambleside and Patterdale through dramatic fell landscapes.
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C.
Yellowhead Pass
Yellowhead Pass is a major mountain pass in the Canadian Rockies that serves as a key transportation corridor between Alberta and British Columbia.
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D.
Kicking Horse Pass
Kicking Horse Pass is a high mountain pass in the Canadian Rockies, historically significant as a key rail and highway route between British Columbia and Alberta.
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E.
Thompson Pass
Thompson Pass is a high mountain pass in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains, noted for its extreme snowfall and role as a key route between the coast and the state’s interior.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mountain pass
ⓘ
transportation corridor ⓘ |
| averageAnnualSnowfall | several metres ⓘ |
| climate | subarctic climate ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | Albert Bowman Rogers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveryYear | 1881 ⓘ |
| elevation |
approximately 1330 metres
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approximately 4360 feet ⓘ |
| governedBy | Parks Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
Parks Canada visitor centre
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rogers Pass Discovery Centre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasManagementProgram | Rogers Pass Avalanche Control Program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRisk | avalanche hazard ⓘ |
| hasStructure |
Connaught Tunnel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mount Macdonald Tunnel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasViewOf |
Illecillewaet Glacier
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mount Sir Donald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | key route in completion of Canadian transcontinental railway ⓘ |
| knownFor |
avalanche control program
ⓘ
backcountry skiing ⓘ frequent avalanches ⓘ heavy snowfall ⓘ mountaineering ⓘ scenic mountain views ⓘ |
| locatedBetween |
Golden, British Columbia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Revelstoke, British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
British Columbia
ⓘ
Selkirk Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInProtectedArea | Glacier National Park (Canada) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOn | continental divide between Columbia River and Kicking Horse River drainages ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Albert Bowman Rogers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearestCity | Revelstoke, British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearestTown | Golden, British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openedForRailTraffic | 1885 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Columbia Mountains
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Trans-Canada Highway corridor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| railwayCompletedThroughPass | 1885 ⓘ |
| railwayOperatedBy | Canadian Pacific Railway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
Connaught Tunnel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mount Macdonald Tunnel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traversedBy |
Canadian Pacific Railway main line
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Trans-Canada Highway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
rail transportation
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recreation ⓘ road transportation ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
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: Rogers Pass Description of subject: Rogers Pass is a high mountain pass in British Columbia’s Selkirk Mountains, renowned as a key transportation corridor and historic route for the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.