Franklin Glacier
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Franklin Glacier is a large mountain glacier in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, situated on the slopes of the prominent Mount Waddington massif.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Franklin Glacier canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5967563 — 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: Franklin Glacier Context triple: [Mount Waddington, hasGlacier, Franklin Glacier]
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A.
Vowell Glacier
Vowell Glacier is a prominent mountain glacier in British Columbia’s Purcell Mountains, known for its dramatic icefields and popularity among climbers and backcountry skiers.
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B.
Woodbury Glacier
Woodbury Glacier is a mountain glacier located within Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park in the Selkirk Mountains of southeastern British Columbia, Canada.
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C.
Lyman Glacier
Lyman Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of Mount Adams in Washington State, known for its retreat in recent decades due to climate change.
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D.
Walton Glacier
Walton Glacier is a mountain glacier associated with Oregon’s Mount Jefferson in the Cascade Range.
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E.
Harker Glacier
Harker Glacier is a prominent glacier flowing from the Allardyce Range on South Georgia Island in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
- 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: Franklin Glacier Target entity description: Franklin Glacier is a large mountain glacier in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, situated on the slopes of the prominent Mount Waddington massif.
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A.
Vowell Glacier
Vowell Glacier is a prominent mountain glacier in British Columbia’s Purcell Mountains, known for its dramatic icefields and popularity among climbers and backcountry skiers.
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B.
Woodbury Glacier
Woodbury Glacier is a mountain glacier located within Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park in the Selkirk Mountains of southeastern British Columbia, Canada.
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C.
Lyman Glacier
Lyman Glacier is a mountain glacier located on the slopes of Mount Adams in Washington State, known for its retreat in recent decades due to climate change.
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D.
Walton Glacier
Walton Glacier is a mountain glacier associated with Oregon’s Mount Jefferson in the Cascade Range.
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E.
Harker Glacier
Harker Glacier is a prominent glacier flowing from the Allardyce Range on South Georgia Island in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
glacier
ⓘ
mountain glacier ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | Pacific Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsTowards |
southwest
ⓘ
west ⓘ |
| glacierType | valley glacier ⓘ |
| hasAccess | mountaineering routes ⓘ |
| hasClimate | maritime climate ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
crevasses
ⓘ
icefalls ⓘ seracs ⓘ |
| isFedBy |
avalanches
ⓘ
snowfall ⓘ |
| isMonitoredFor | glacial change ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Coast Mountains glaciation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
British Columbia
ⓘ
Coast Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ coastal climatic zone of British Columbia ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Mount Waddington massif NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mountainRange | Coast Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Franklin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near |
Franklin River (British Columbia)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mount Waddington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Pacific Ranges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryPrecipitationType | snow ⓘ |
| region | Southwestern British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| surfaceElevation | high mountain elevation ⓘ |
| usedFor |
glaciological observation
ⓘ
mountaineering ⓘ |
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: Franklin Glacier Description of subject: Franklin Glacier is a large mountain glacier in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, situated on the slopes of the prominent Mount Waddington massif.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.