Glacier de la Dent Blanche (nearby)
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Glacier de la Dent Blanche is a mountain glacier in the Pennine Alps of Valais, Switzerland, lying on the flanks of the Dent Blanche peak.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Glacier de la Dent Blanche (nearby) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5562886 — 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 de la Dent Blanche (nearby) Context triple: [Dent Blanche, hasGlacier, Glacier de la Dent Blanche (nearby)]
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A.
Dana Glacier (nearby)
Dana Glacier (nearby) is a small alpine glacier situated on the slopes of Mount Dana in the Sierra Nevada of California.
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B.
Glacier de la Lex Blanche
Glacier de la Lex Blanche is a mountain glacier within the Mont Blanc massif, contributing to the larger Mont-Blanc glacial system in the Alps.
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C.
Eiger Glacier (Eigergletscher, nearby)
Eiger Glacier (Eigergletscher) is a small alpine glacier situated on the slopes near the Eiger in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland.
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D.
Glacier du Mont Dolent
Glacier du Mont Dolent is a high-altitude Alpine glacier situated on the flanks of Mont Dolent in the Mont Blanc massif, straddling the borders of France, Italy, and Switzerland.
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E.
Vallée Blanche glacier
The Vallée Blanche glacier is a famous high-altitude glacial valley in the Mont Blanc massif, renowned for its long off-piste ski descent and dramatic alpine scenery between 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 de la Dent Blanche (nearby) Target entity description: Glacier de la Dent Blanche is a mountain glacier in the Pennine Alps of Valais, Switzerland, lying on the flanks of the Dent Blanche peak.
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A.
Dana Glacier (nearby)
Dana Glacier (nearby) is a small alpine glacier situated on the slopes of Mount Dana in the Sierra Nevada of California.
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B.
Glacier de la Lex Blanche
Glacier de la Lex Blanche is a mountain glacier within the Mont Blanc massif, contributing to the larger Mont-Blanc glacial system in the Alps.
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C.
Eiger Glacier (Eigergletscher, nearby)
Eiger Glacier (Eigergletscher) is a small alpine glacier situated on the slopes near the Eiger in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland.
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D.
Glacier du Mont Dolent
Glacier du Mont Dolent is a high-altitude Alpine glacier situated on the flanks of Mont Dolent in the Mont Blanc massif, straddling the borders of France, Italy, and Switzerland.
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E.
Vallée Blanche glacier
The Vallée Blanche glacier is a famous high-altitude glacial valley in the Mont Blanc massif, renowned for its long off-piste ski descent and dramatic alpine scenery between France and Italy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
glacier
ⓘ
mountain glacier ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | Rhône basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geologicalContext | Alpine orogeny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClimateZone | alpine climate ⓘ |
| hasLanguageRegion | French-speaking Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceFeature |
crevasses
ⓘ
seracs ⓘ |
| hasType | valley glacier ⓘ |
| hazard |
crevasse falls
ⓘ
icefall collapse ⓘ |
| isIn | Alpine region of Valais NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Pennine Alps
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Switzerland ⓘ canton of Valais NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInProtectedArea | Swiss Alps region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mountainRange | Pennine Alps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near |
Dent Blanche
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Val d’Anniviers NERFINISHED ⓘ Val d’Hérens NERFINISHED ⓘ Zermatt region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| onFlanksOf | Dent Blanche NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Alps
ⓘ
Dent Blanche massif NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | southwestern Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectTo | glacial retreat due to climate change ⓘ |
| usedFor |
alpine mountaineering
ⓘ
high-altitude glacier travel training ⓘ |
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: Glacier de la Dent Blanche (nearby) Description of subject: Glacier de la Dent Blanche is a mountain glacier in the Pennine Alps of Valais, Switzerland, lying on the flanks of the Dent Blanche peak.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.