Getz Ice Shelf
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Getz Ice Shelf is a large Antarctic ice shelf fringing the coast of Marie Byrd Land in the Amundsen Sea, known for its extensive calving front and contribution to regional ice loss.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Getz Ice Shelf canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6996918 — 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: Getz Ice Shelf Context triple: [Dotson Ice Shelf, adjacentTo, Getz Ice Shelf]
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A.
Lazarev Ice Shelf
Lazarev Ice Shelf is a coastal ice shelf fringing the coast of Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica, forming part of the region’s extensive ice-covered shoreline.
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B.
Amery Ice Shelf
The Amery Ice Shelf is one of Antarctica’s largest ice shelves, a massive floating extension of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet that drains inland glaciers into the Southern Ocean.
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C.
Larsen Ice Shelf
The Larsen Ice Shelf is a large Antarctic ice shelf fringing the eastern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, known for its dramatic partial collapses that have highlighted the impacts of climate change.
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D.
Ross Ice Shelf
The Ross Ice Shelf is the world’s largest ice shelf, a vast floating extension of the Antarctic ice sheet that plays a key role in buttressing inland glaciers and influencing global sea-level stability.
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E.
Brunt Ice Shelf
The Brunt Ice Shelf is a vast floating expanse of glacial ice on the coast of Antarctica, known for its dynamic crevassing and as a key site for polar research and monitoring.
- 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: Getz Ice Shelf Target entity description: Getz Ice Shelf is a large Antarctic ice shelf fringing the coast of Marie Byrd Land in the Amundsen Sea, known for its extensive calving front and contribution to regional ice loss.
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A.
Lazarev Ice Shelf
Lazarev Ice Shelf is a coastal ice shelf fringing the coast of Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica, forming part of the region’s extensive ice-covered shoreline.
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B.
Amery Ice Shelf
The Amery Ice Shelf is one of Antarctica’s largest ice shelves, a massive floating extension of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet that drains inland glaciers into the Southern Ocean.
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C.
Larsen Ice Shelf
The Larsen Ice Shelf is a large Antarctic ice shelf fringing the eastern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, known for its dramatic partial collapses that have highlighted the impacts of climate change.
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D.
Ross Ice Shelf
The Ross Ice Shelf is the world’s largest ice shelf, a vast floating extension of the Antarctic ice sheet that plays a key role in buttressing inland glaciers and influencing global sea-level stability.
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E.
Brunt Ice Shelf
The Brunt Ice Shelf is a vast floating expanse of glacial ice on the coast of Antarctica, known for its dynamic crevassing and as a key site for polar research and monitoring.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
glacial feature
ⓘ
ice shelf ⓘ |
| affectedBy |
climate change
ⓘ
ocean-driven basal melting ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
grounded ice of Marie Byrd Land
ⓘ
open ocean ⓘ |
| contributesTo |
regional ice loss
ⓘ
sea-level rise ⓘ |
| fringesCoastOf | Marie Byrd Land NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCalvingFront | extensive ⓘ |
| hasCalvingStyle | tabular iceberg calving ⓘ |
| hasClimateZone | Antarctic coastal climate zone ⓘ |
| hasCoastlineOn | Amundsen Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDynamicState |
increasing ice discharge
ⓘ
retreating ⓘ thinning ⓘ |
| hasEnvironment |
marine-terminating
ⓘ
polar ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
crevasses
ⓘ
grounding line ⓘ ice front ⓘ rifts ⓘ |
| hasIceFlowDirection | generally northward toward Amundsen Sea ⓘ |
| hasLanguageVariant | Getz Ice Shelf (English) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProcess | calving ⓘ |
| hasRegionType | coastal ice shelf ⓘ |
| hasSnowAccumulation | high relative to interior Antarctica ⓘ |
| interactsWith |
Southern Ocean
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
circumpolar deep water ⓘ |
| isConsidered | one of the rapidly changing Antarctic ice shelves ⓘ |
| isPartOfSystem | Amundsen Sea ice shelves system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf |
glaciological studies
ⓘ
satellite remote sensing observations ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Amundsen Sea sector
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Antarctica ⓘ Marie Byrd Land NERFINISHED ⓘ West Antarctica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| monitoredBy |
satellite altimetry
ⓘ
satellite gravimetry ⓘ satellite radar interferometry ⓘ |
| partOf |
Amundsen Sea embayment
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Antarctic ice sheet margin NERFINISHED ⓘ Pacific sector of Antarctica ⓘ |
| studiedFor |
contribution to global sea-level budget
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ice–ocean interactions ⓘ mass balance changes ⓘ |
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: Getz Ice Shelf Description of subject: Getz Ice Shelf is a large Antarctic ice shelf fringing the coast of Marie Byrd Land in the Amundsen Sea, known for its extensive calving front and contribution to regional ice loss.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.