Selkirk Mountains
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The Selkirk Mountains are a rugged subrange of the Columbia Mountains in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, known for their steep peaks, heavy snowfall, and extensive glaciation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Selkirk Mountains canonical | 10 |
| Selkirk Mountains region | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5216448 — 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: Selkirk Mountains Context triple: [Glacier National Park (Canada), mountainRange, Selkirk Mountains]
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A.
Skeena Mountains
The Skeena Mountains are a rugged mountain range in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, forming part of the Interior Mountains and known for their remote wilderness and role in feeding the Skeena River system.
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B.
Saint Elias Mountains
The Saint Elias Mountains are a rugged, heavily glaciated mountain range in northwestern North America that includes some of the continent’s highest peaks, such as Mount Logan.
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C.
Cariboo Mountains
The Cariboo Mountains are a rugged mountain range in east-central British Columbia, Canada, historically renowned as the heart of the 19th-century Cariboo Gold Rush.
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D.
Cathedral Range
The Cathedral Range is a prominent granite mountain range in Yosemite National Park known for its dramatic peaks, alpine scenery, and popular hiking and climbing routes.
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E.
Cathedral Range
Cathedral Range, also known as the Passu Cones, is a striking group of sharply pointed, ice-covered peaks in northern Pakistan’s Karakoram range, famed for their dramatic, cathedral-like spires.
- 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: Selkirk Mountains Target entity description: The Selkirk Mountains are a rugged subrange of the Columbia Mountains in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, known for their steep peaks, heavy snowfall, and extensive glaciation.
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A.
Skeena Mountains
The Skeena Mountains are a rugged mountain range in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, forming part of the Interior Mountains and known for their remote wilderness and role in feeding the Skeena River system.
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B.
Saint Elias Mountains
The Saint Elias Mountains are a rugged, heavily glaciated mountain range in northwestern North America that includes some of the continent’s highest peaks, such as Mount Logan.
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C.
Cariboo Mountains
The Cariboo Mountains are a rugged mountain range in east-central British Columbia, Canada, historically renowned as the heart of the 19th-century Cariboo Gold Rush.
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D.
Cathedral Range
The Cathedral Range is a prominent granite mountain range in Yosemite National Park known for its dramatic peaks, alpine scenery, and popular hiking and climbing routes.
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E.
Cathedral Range
Cathedral Range, also known as the Passu Cones, is a striking group of sharply pointed, ice-covered peaks in northern Pakistan’s Karakoram range, famed for their dramatic, cathedral-like spires.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mountain pass
ⓘ
mountain range ⓘ national park ⓘ subrange of the Columbia Mountains ⓘ |
| borders |
Columbia River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kootenai River NERFINISHED ⓘ Kootenay River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | continental climate with heavy winter snow ⓘ |
| contains |
Glacier National Park (Canada)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mount Revelstoke National Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| eastOf | Okanagan Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ecoregion | Interior wet-belt forests NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevation | 3519 metres ⓘ |
| extendsInto |
northeastern Washington
ⓘ
northern Idaho ⓘ |
| fauna |
grizzly bear
ⓘ
mountain caribou ⓘ mountain goat ⓘ wolverine ⓘ |
| geology | primarily metamorphic and sedimentary rocks ⓘ |
| highestPoint | Mount Sir Sandford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
extensive glaciation
ⓘ
heavy snowfall ⓘ rugged terrain ⓘ steep peaks ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
British Columbia
ⓘ
Pacific Northwest region of North America NERFINISHED ⓘ Selkirk Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ southeastern British Columbia ⓘ |
| majorRiverValleys |
Columbia River valley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kootenai River valley NERFINISHED ⓘ Kootenay River valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Charles Murray, 5th Earl of Selkirk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| northOf | Spokane River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Columbia Mountains
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Columbia River Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passes | Rogers Pass NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recreation |
backcountry skiing
ⓘ
heli-skiing ⓘ hiking ⓘ mountaineering ⓘ |
| region | Kootenays NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traversedBy | Trans-Canada Highway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vegetation |
alpine tundra
ⓘ
coniferous forests ⓘ subalpine forests ⓘ |
| westOf | Rocky Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Selkirk Mountains Description of subject: The Selkirk Mountains are a rugged subrange of the Columbia Mountains in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, known for their steep peaks, heavy snowfall, and extensive glaciation.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Selkirk Mountains region