French Makalu expedition
E673847
The French Makalu expedition was the mountaineering team that achieved the first ascent of Kangchungtse, a subsidiary peak of Makalu in the Himalayas.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 1955 French Makalu expedition | 2 |
| French Makalu expedition canonical | 1 |
| Himalayan expeditions | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7573822 — 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: French Makalu expedition Context triple: [Kangchungtse, firstAscentBy, French Makalu expedition]
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1955 British Kangchenjunga expedition
The 1955 British Kangchenjunga expedition was the mountaineering team that achieved the first successful ascent of Kangchenjunga, the world’s third-highest mountain.
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1953 British Mount Everest expedition
The 1953 British Mount Everest expedition was the historic climbing campaign that achieved the first confirmed ascent of Mount Everest, led by John Hunt and culminating in Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reaching the summit.
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1924 British Mount Everest expedition
The 1924 British Mount Everest expedition was an early and historically significant attempt to reach the summit of Everest, remembered especially for the disappearance of climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine high on the mountain.
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1922 British Mount Everest expedition
The 1922 British Mount Everest expedition was an early high-altitude climbing attempt that made the first serious efforts to reach the summit of Everest and set altitude records, helping to pioneer Himalayan mountaineering.
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1970 Nanga Parbat expedition
The 1970 Nanga Parbat expedition was a landmark Himalayan climbing attempt on the Rupal Face of Nanga Parbat that became infamous for its extreme difficulty, tragedy, and its pivotal role in launching Reinhold Messner’s legendary mountaineering career.
- 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: French Makalu expedition Target entity description: The French Makalu expedition was the mountaineering team that achieved the first ascent of Kangchungtse, a subsidiary peak of Makalu in the Himalayas.
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A.
1955 British Kangchenjunga expedition
The 1955 British Kangchenjunga expedition was the mountaineering team that achieved the first successful ascent of Kangchenjunga, the world’s third-highest mountain.
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B.
1953 British Mount Everest expedition
The 1953 British Mount Everest expedition was the historic climbing campaign that achieved the first confirmed ascent of Mount Everest, led by John Hunt and culminating in Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reaching the summit.
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C.
1924 British Mount Everest expedition
The 1924 British Mount Everest expedition was an early and historically significant attempt to reach the summit of Everest, remembered especially for the disappearance of climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine high on the mountain.
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D.
1922 British Mount Everest expedition
The 1922 British Mount Everest expedition was an early high-altitude climbing attempt that made the first serious efforts to reach the summit of Everest and set altitude records, helping to pioneer Himalayan mountaineering.
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E.
1970 Nanga Parbat expedition
The 1970 Nanga Parbat expedition was a landmark Himalayan climbing attempt on the Rupal Face of Nanga Parbat that became infamous for its extreme difficulty, tragedy, and its pivotal role in launching Reinhold Messner’s legendary mountaineering career.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | mountaineering expedition ⓘ |
| activity | high-altitude mountaineering ⓘ |
| ascendedPeakType | subsidiary peak of Makalu ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| expeditionTo | Makalu region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAscentOf | Kangchungtse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Nepal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mountainRange | Himalayas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | first ascent of Kangchungtse ⓘ |
| objective | climb Kangchungtse ⓘ |
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: French Makalu expedition Description of subject: The French Makalu expedition was the mountaineering team that achieved the first ascent of Kangchungtse, a subsidiary peak of Makalu in the Himalayas.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
1955 French Makalu expedition
subject surface form:
Makalu first ascent
this entity surface form:
1955 French Makalu expedition
this entity surface form:
Himalayan expeditions