Stein Glacier
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Stein Glacier is a prominent alpine glacier in the Swiss Alps, known for its dramatic ice tongue and scenic views from the surrounding mountain passes and hiking trails.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stein Glacier canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4249980 — 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: Stein Glacier Context triple: [Susten Pass, hasViewOf, Stein Glacier]
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Steffen Glacier
Steffen Glacier is a major outlet glacier draining the Northern Patagonian Ice Field in southern Chile, known for its remote location and contribution to regional freshwater and sea-level changes.
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Berg Glacier
Berg Glacier is a prominent glacier on the slopes of Mount Robson in the Canadian Rockies, known for its dramatic icefalls and contribution to the scenic Berg Lake.
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Lyell Glacier
Lyell Glacier is a rapidly retreating mountain glacier in Yosemite National Park, historically the largest glacier in the park and situated on the slopes of Mount Lyell in the Sierra Nevada of California.
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Lyell Glacier
Lyell Glacier is a prominent glacier located within the Allardyce Range on the subantarctic island of South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
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Ritter Glacier
Ritter Glacier is a mountain glacier associated with California’s Mount Ritter in the Sierra Nevada range.
- 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: Stein Glacier Target entity description: Stein Glacier is a prominent alpine glacier in the Swiss Alps, known for its dramatic ice tongue and scenic views from the surrounding mountain passes and hiking trails.
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A.
Steffen Glacier
Steffen Glacier is a major outlet glacier draining the Northern Patagonian Ice Field in southern Chile, known for its remote location and contribution to regional freshwater and sea-level changes.
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B.
Berg Glacier
Berg Glacier is a prominent glacier on the slopes of Mount Robson in the Canadian Rockies, known for its dramatic icefalls and contribution to the scenic Berg Lake.
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C.
Lyell Glacier
Lyell Glacier is a rapidly retreating mountain glacier in Yosemite National Park, historically the largest glacier in the park and situated on the slopes of Mount Lyell in the Sierra Nevada of California.
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Lyell Glacier
Lyell Glacier is a prominent glacier located within the Allardyce Range on the subantarctic island of South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
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E.
Ritter Glacier
Ritter Glacier is a mountain glacier associated with California’s Mount Ritter in the Sierra Nevada range.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | glacier ⓘ |
| accessibleFrom |
Stein Glacier trail
ⓘ
Susten Pass road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| affectedBy | climate change ⓘ |
| climateZone | alpine climate ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| countryCode | CH ⓘ |
| drainsInto |
Aare river basin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Steinwasser stream NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 2100–3200 metres above sea level ⓘ |
| geologicalType | valley glacier ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
guided glacier tours
ⓘ
hiking ⓘ mountain photography ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
crevasses
ⓘ
glacial lake ⓘ ice tongue ⓘ moraines ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | named after the Stein valley/stream ⓘ |
| hasRisk |
crevasse danger
ⓘ
icefall danger ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | glacier monitoring reports in Switzerland ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Gadmen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Swiss Alps NERFINISHED ⓘ Urbach Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ canton of Bern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mountainRange | Urner Alps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near |
Gadmen Valley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Susten Pass NERFINISHED ⓘ Susten Road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Stein Glacier basin ⓘ |
| region | Bernese Oberland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | retreating ⓘ |
| surfaceType | ice and firn ⓘ |
| tourismType |
glacier tourism
ⓘ
hiking destination ⓘ mountain tourism ⓘ |
| usedFor |
climate monitoring
ⓘ
glaciological research ⓘ |
| viewedFrom |
nearby mountain passes
ⓘ
surrounding hiking trails ⓘ |
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: Stein Glacier Description of subject: Stein Glacier is a prominent alpine glacier in the Swiss Alps, known for its dramatic ice tongue and scenic views from the surrounding mountain passes and hiking trails.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.