Modoc Plateau
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The Modoc Plateau is a high, volcanic tableland in northeastern California and adjacent parts of Oregon and Nevada, characterized by lava flows, sagebrush steppe, and scattered forests.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Modoc Plateau canonical | 24 |
| High Desert plateau | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T779527 — 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: Modoc Plateau Context triple: [Shasta Cascade region, contains, Modoc Plateau]
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A.
Amargosa Range
The Amargosa Range is a mountain range in eastern California and Nevada that forms the eastern boundary of Death Valley and is known for its rugged desert peaks and colorful badlands.
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B.
Owyhee Desert
The Owyhee Desert is a remote, high-elevation sagebrush and canyon desert region spanning parts of Idaho, Oregon, and Nevada in the northwestern United States.
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C.
Pajarito Plateau
Pajarito Plateau is a volcanic mesa region in northern New Mexico known for its canyons, forests, and as the site of Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project.
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D.
Great Basin
The Great Basin is a vast, arid region of interior drainage in the western United States, characterized by its basin-and-range topography, deserts, and salt flats.
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E.
Basin and Range Province
The Basin and Range Province is a vast geologic region of the western United States and northern Mexico characterized by alternating mountain ranges and arid basins formed through crustal extension.
- 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: Modoc Plateau Target entity description: The Modoc Plateau is a high, volcanic tableland in northeastern California and adjacent parts of Oregon and Nevada, characterized by lava flows, sagebrush steppe, and scattered forests.
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A.
Amargosa Range
The Amargosa Range is a mountain range in eastern California and Nevada that forms the eastern boundary of Death Valley and is known for its rugged desert peaks and colorful badlands.
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B.
Owyhee Desert
The Owyhee Desert is a remote, high-elevation sagebrush and canyon desert region spanning parts of Idaho, Oregon, and Nevada in the northwestern United States.
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C.
Pajarito Plateau
Pajarito Plateau is a volcanic mesa region in northern New Mexico known for its canyons, forests, and as the site of Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project.
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D.
Great Basin
The Great Basin is a vast, arid region of interior drainage in the western United States, characterized by its basin-and-range topography, deserts, and salt flats.
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E.
Basin and Range Province
The Basin and Range Province is a vast geologic region of the western United States and northern Mexico characterized by alternating mountain ranges and arid basins formed through crustal extension.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographic region
ⓘ
plateau ⓘ volcanic plateau ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Cascade Range
ⓘ
Great Basin ⓘ Klamath Mountains ⓘ Sierra Nevada ⓘ |
| climate |
continental
ⓘ
semi-arid ⓘ |
| containsFeature |
Goose Lake Basin
ⓘ
Lava Beds National Monument ⓘ
linked to:
Lava Beds
Medicine Lake Volcano region ⓘ
linked to:
Medicine Lake Volcano
Tule Lake Basin ⓘ
linked to:
Tule Lake
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dominantVegetation |
ponderosa pine forests
ⓘ
sagebrush steppe ⓘ western juniper woodlands ⓘ |
| ecosystemType | cold desert shrubland ⓘ |
| elevationRange | 1200–2100 meters ⓘ |
| fauna |
coyotes
ⓘ
mule deer ⓘ pronghorn ⓘ sage-grouse ⓘ |
| geologicOrigin | Cenozoic volcanism ⓘ |
| geology |
ash deposits
ⓘ
basaltic lava flows ⓘ tuff ⓘ |
| highestPoint | Medicine Lake Highlands vicinity ⓘ |
| historicallyInhabitedBy |
Modoc people
ⓘ
Northern Paiute ⓘ |
| hydrology |
closed basins
ⓘ
marshes ⓘ seasonal lakes ⓘ |
| landUse |
dryland farming
ⓘ
livestock grazing ⓘ timber production ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Nevada
ⓘ
Oregon ⓘ northeastern California ⓘ |
| partOf |
Klamath County
ⓘ
linked to:
Klamath County, Oregon
Lake County, Oregon ⓘ Lassen County ⓘ Modoc County ⓘ
linked to:
Modoc County, California
Siskiyou County ⓘ
linked to:
Siskiyou County, California
|
| physiographicProvince | Columbia Plateau ⓘ |
| physiographicRegion | Intermontane Plateaus ⓘ |
| protectedAreaWithin |
Lava Beds National Monument
ⓘ
linked to:
Lava Beds
Modoc National Forest ⓘ Modoc National Wildlife Refuge ⓘ |
| surfaceForm | lava tableland ⓘ |
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: Modoc Plateau Description of subject: The Modoc Plateau is a high, volcanic tableland in northeastern California and adjacent parts of Oregon and Nevada, characterized by lava flows, sagebrush steppe, and scattered forests.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Modoc Plateau