Death Valley volcanic field
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Death Valley volcanic field is a geologically active area in eastern California characterized by numerous young volcanic features, including maars, cinder cones, and lava flows within the broader Death Valley region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Death Valley volcanic field canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8008460 — 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: Death Valley volcanic field Context triple: [Ubehebe Crater, volcanicProvince, Death Valley volcanic field]
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A.
San Francisco volcanic field
The San Francisco volcanic field is a geologically active region in northern Arizona containing hundreds of volcanic features, including cinder cones, lava domes, and the state’s highest peak.
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B.
Long Valley Caldera
Long Valley Caldera is a large volcanic depression in eastern California known for its geothermal activity, seismic unrest, and proximity to the Sierra Nevada and Mammoth Lakes.
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C.
Navajo Volcanic Field
The Navajo Volcanic Field is a geologic region on the Colorado Plateau characterized by numerous volcanic necks, diatremes, and other erosional remnants of ancient volcanic activity.
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D.
Taos Plateau volcanic field
The Taos Plateau volcanic field is an extensive volcanic region in northern New Mexico characterized by numerous basaltic lava flows, cinder cones, and volcanic features that form part of the southern Rocky Mountains landscape.
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E.
Steens Mountain volcanic field
Steens Mountain volcanic field is a large volcanic region in southeastern Oregon known for its extensive basalt flows and dramatic fault-block mountain landscapes.
- 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: Death Valley volcanic field Target entity description: Death Valley volcanic field is a geologically active area in eastern California characterized by numerous young volcanic features, including maars, cinder cones, and lava flows within the broader Death Valley region.
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A.
San Francisco volcanic field
The San Francisco volcanic field is a geologically active region in northern Arizona containing hundreds of volcanic features, including cinder cones, lava domes, and the state’s highest peak.
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B.
Long Valley Caldera
Long Valley Caldera is a large volcanic depression in eastern California known for its geothermal activity, seismic unrest, and proximity to the Sierra Nevada and Mammoth Lakes.
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C.
Navajo Volcanic Field
The Navajo Volcanic Field is a geologic region on the Colorado Plateau characterized by numerous volcanic necks, diatremes, and other erosional remnants of ancient volcanic activity.
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D.
Taos Plateau volcanic field
The Taos Plateau volcanic field is an extensive volcanic region in northern New Mexico characterized by numerous basaltic lava flows, cinder cones, and volcanic features that form part of the southern Rocky Mountains landscape.
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E.
Steens Mountain volcanic field
Steens Mountain volcanic field is a large volcanic region in southeastern Oregon known for its extensive basalt flows and dramatic fault-block mountain landscapes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | volcanic field ⓘ |
| contains |
monogenetic vents
ⓘ
young volcanic vents ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| environment |
arid climate
ⓘ
desert environment ⓘ |
| eruptionStyle |
phreatomagmatic
ⓘ
strombolian ⓘ |
| geologicalAge | Quaternary ⓘ |
| geologicalStatus | geologically active area ⓘ |
| hasGeologicalFeature |
cinder cone
ⓘ
cinder cones ⓘ lava flow ⓘ lava flows ⓘ maar ⓘ maars ⓘ |
| hazardType | volcanic hazard ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Basin and Range Province
ⓘ
California ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Death Valley ⓘ Death Valley National Park ⓘ
linked to:
Death Valley National Park (partial)
Mojave Desert ⓘ eastern California ⓘ |
| monitoredBy | United States Geological Survey ⓘ |
| near | California–Nevada border ⓘ |
| partOf |
Death Valley region
ⓘ
linked to:
Death Valley
|
| region | western United States ⓘ |
| tectonicSetting |
Basin and Range extensional province
ⓘ
linked to:
Basin and Range Province
extensional tectonic regime ⓘ |
| volcanicRockType |
basalt
ⓘ
basaltic lava ⓘ |
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: Death Valley volcanic field Description of subject: Death Valley volcanic field is a geologically active area in eastern California characterized by numerous young volcanic features, including maars, cinder cones, and lava flows within the broader Death Valley region.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.