Little Glass Mountain
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Little Glass Mountain is a prominent obsidian lava dome within California’s Medicine Lake Volcano, known for its glassy rhyolitic lava flows and well-preserved volcanic features.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Little Glass Mountain canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T695913 — 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: Little Glass Mountain Context triple: [Medicine Lake Volcano, hasObsidianDome, Little Glass Mountain]
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A.
Long Mountain
Long Mountain is the English translation of the Hawaiian name "Mauna Loa," referring to one of the world’s largest and most active volcanoes on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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B.
Bald Mountain
Bald Mountain is a prominent peak in Nevada’s Snake Range, known for its high elevation and rugged Great Basin terrain.
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C.
Rainmaker Mountain
Rainmaker Mountain is a prominent, rainforest-covered peak on Tutuila Island in American Samoa, known for its steep slopes and heavy rainfall.
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D.
Savage Mountain
Savage Mountain is the ominous nickname for K2, the world’s second-highest peak, renowned for its extreme difficulty and high fatality rate among climbers.
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E.
Wilmot Mountain
Wilmot Mountain is a ski and snowboard area in southeastern Wisconsin known for its family-friendly terrain and proximity to the Chicago and Milwaukee metropolitan areas.
- 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: Little Glass Mountain Target entity description: Little Glass Mountain is a prominent obsidian lava dome within California’s Medicine Lake Volcano, known for its glassy rhyolitic lava flows and well-preserved volcanic features.
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A.
Long Mountain
Long Mountain is the English translation of the Hawaiian name "Mauna Loa," referring to one of the world’s largest and most active volcanoes on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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B.
Bald Mountain
Bald Mountain is a prominent peak in Nevada’s Snake Range, known for its high elevation and rugged Great Basin terrain.
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C.
Rainmaker Mountain
Rainmaker Mountain is a prominent, rainforest-covered peak on Tutuila Island in American Samoa, known for its steep slopes and heavy rainfall.
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D.
Savage Mountain
Savage Mountain is the ominous nickname for K2, the world’s second-highest peak, renowned for its extreme difficulty and high fatality rate among climbers.
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E.
Wilmot Mountain
Wilmot Mountain is a ski and snowboard area in southeastern Wisconsin known for its family-friendly terrain and proximity to the Chicago and Milwaukee metropolitan areas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lava dome
ⓘ
obsidian dome ⓘ volcanic landform ⓘ |
| belongsToVolcanicField |
Medicine Lake Volcano
ⓘ
surface form:
Medicine Lake volcanic field
|
| composition | high-silica rhyolite ⓘ |
| eruptionAge | Holocene ⓘ |
| eruptionStyle |
effusive
ⓘ
silicic ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
blocky lava surface
ⓘ
flow levees ⓘ glassy lava flows ⓘ obsidian talus ⓘ pressure ridges ⓘ pumice deposits ⓘ spines and domes ⓘ well-preserved flow fronts ⓘ |
| hasPreservationState | well-preserved ⓘ |
| hasScientificSignificance |
natural laboratory for obsidian flow processes
ⓘ
record of recent silicic volcanism in the Cascades ⓘ |
| hazardType |
lava flow hazard
ⓘ
tephra fall hazard ⓘ |
| isExampleOf |
obsidian-producing eruption
ⓘ
postglacial silicic volcanism ⓘ |
| isOnFlankOf | Medicine Lake Volcano ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Medicine Lake Volcano
ⓘ
surface form:
Medicine Lake Volcano summit area
|
| isYoungerThan |
Medicine Lake Volcano
ⓘ
surface form:
Glass Mountain (Medicine Lake Volcano)
|
| lastEruptionPeriod | late Holocene ⓘ |
| lavaType | obsidian ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Medicine Lake Volcano ⓘ Modoc County, California ⓘ Shasta County ⓘ
surface form:
Shasta County, California
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| monitoredAsPartOf | Cascades Volcano Observatory programs ⓘ |
| monitoredBy | United States Geological Survey ⓘ |
| near |
Medicine Lake Volcano
ⓘ
surface form:
Glass Mountain (Medicine Lake Volcano)
Medicine Lake ⓘ |
| partOf | Cascade Range volcanic province ⓘ |
| surfaceColor | black ⓘ |
| surfaceTexture | vitreous ⓘ |
| usedFor |
geologic field studies
ⓘ
volcanology education ⓘ |
| volcanicRockType | rhyolite ⓘ |
| within | Modoc National Forest ⓘ |
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: Little Glass Mountain Description of subject: Little Glass Mountain is a prominent obsidian lava dome within California’s Medicine Lake Volcano, known for its glassy rhyolitic lava flows and well-preserved volcanic features.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.