Pasang Dawa Lama Sherpa
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Pasang Dawa Lama Sherpa was a pioneering Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer best known for his early high-altitude climbs on Mount Everest alongside prominent Western expeditions in the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pasang Dawa Lama Sherpa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7834220 — 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: Pasang Dawa Lama Sherpa Context triple: [Pasang Dawa Lama, knownAs, Pasang Dawa Lama Sherpa]
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A.
East of Kailash
East of Kailash is a prominent residential and commercial neighborhood in South Delhi, India, known for its central location and connectivity.
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B.
Road to Rakaposhi
Road to Rakaposhi is a mountaineering book recounting the first ascent of Pakistan’s Rakaposhi peak, co-authored by British climber George Band.
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C.
The Kangchenjunga Adventure
The Kangchenjunga Adventure is a mountaineering book recounting the first successful ascent of Kangchenjunga by the 1955 British expedition, detailing the challenges, routes, and experiences of the climbers involved.
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D.
Saga Dawa
Saga Dawa is a major Tibetan Buddhist holy month and festival commemorating the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana, corresponding to the Vesak observance in other Buddhist traditions.
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E.
Sharchopkha
Sharchopkha is an East Bodish language spoken primarily by the Sharchop people in eastern Bhutan.
- 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: Pasang Dawa Lama Sherpa Target entity description: Pasang Dawa Lama Sherpa was a pioneering Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer best known for his early high-altitude climbs on Mount Everest alongside prominent Western expeditions in the mid-20th century.
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A.
East of Kailash
East of Kailash is a prominent residential and commercial neighborhood in South Delhi, India, known for its central location and connectivity.
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B.
Road to Rakaposhi
Road to Rakaposhi is a mountaineering book recounting the first ascent of Pakistan’s Rakaposhi peak, co-authored by British climber George Band.
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C.
The Kangchenjunga Adventure
The Kangchenjunga Adventure is a mountaineering book recounting the first successful ascent of Kangchenjunga by the 1955 British expedition, detailing the challenges, routes, and experiences of the climbers involved.
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D.
Saga Dawa
Saga Dawa is a major Tibetan Buddhist holy month and festival commemorating the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana, corresponding to the Vesak observance in other Buddhist traditions.
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E.
Sharchopkha
Sharchopkha is an East Bodish language spoken primarily by the Sharchop people in eastern Bhutan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nepalese person
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human ⓘ mountaineer ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Nepal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Sherpa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | high-altitude mountaineering ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownAs |
Pasang Dawa Lama
NERFINISHED
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Pasang Dawa Lama Sherpa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early high-altitude climbs on Mount Everest
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participation in prominent Western Everest expeditions in the mid-20th century ⓘ |
| notableRole | pioneering Sherpa climber on early Everest attempts ⓘ |
| occupation |
high-altitude porter
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mountaineer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Mount Everest expeditions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Himalayas
NERFINISHED
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Mount Everest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Mount Everest region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Pasang Dawa Lama Sherpa Description of subject: Pasang Dawa Lama Sherpa was a pioneering Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer best known for his early high-altitude climbs on Mount Everest alongside prominent Western expeditions in the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.