Colima Rift
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Colima Rift is a tectonic spreading center and rift zone off the western coast of Mexico that marks part of the boundary between the Rivera Plate and the neighboring plates in the Pacific region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Colima Rift canonical | 2 |
| Tepic–Zacoalco Rift | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1093820 — 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: Colima Rift Context triple: [Rivera Plate, near, Colima Rift]
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A.
Colima Volcano
Colima Volcano is one of Mexico’s most active stratovolcanoes, located in western Mexico and known for its frequent eruptions and significant volcanic hazards.
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B.
Garibaldi Volcanic Belt
The Garibaldi Volcanic Belt is a segment of the Cascade Volcanic Arc in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, characterized by a chain of volcanoes and volcanic features formed by subduction-related activity.
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C.
Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt
The Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt is a major east–west volcanic mountain range across central-southern Mexico, known for its high concentration of active and dormant volcanoes and significant geological and ecological diversity.
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D.
Parícutin
Parícutin is a famous cinder cone volcano in western Mexico that dramatically emerged in a farmer’s cornfield in 1943 and became one of the most studied volcanic events in modern history.
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E.
Colima
Colima is a small Pacific-coast state in western Mexico known for its active Colima Volcano, agricultural production, and relatively high standard of living.
- 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: Colima Rift Target entity description: Colima Rift is a tectonic spreading center and rift zone off the western coast of Mexico that marks part of the boundary between the Rivera Plate and the neighboring plates in the Pacific region.
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A.
Colima Volcano
Colima Volcano is one of Mexico’s most active stratovolcanoes, located in western Mexico and known for its frequent eruptions and significant volcanic hazards.
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B.
Garibaldi Volcanic Belt
The Garibaldi Volcanic Belt is a segment of the Cascade Volcanic Arc in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, characterized by a chain of volcanoes and volcanic features formed by subduction-related activity.
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C.
Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt
The Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt is a major east–west volcanic mountain range across central-southern Mexico, known for its high concentration of active and dormant volcanoes and significant geological and ecological diversity.
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D.
Parícutin
Parícutin is a famous cinder cone volcano in western Mexico that dramatically emerged in a farmer’s cornfield in 1943 and became one of the most studied volcanic events in modern history.
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E.
Colima
Colima is a small Pacific-coast state in western Mexico known for its active Colima Volcano, agricultural production, and relatively high standard of living.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
rift zone
ⓘ
spreading center ⓘ tectonic feature ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
North American continental margin
ⓘ
surface form:
Mexican continental margin
|
| associatedPlate |
Pacific Plate
ⓘ
Rivera Plate ⓘ |
| boundaryType | divergent plate boundary ⓘ |
| continentMargin | North America ⓘ |
| countryBorderingRegion | Mexico ⓘ |
| featureType | submarine tectonic structure ⓘ |
| geologicalProcess |
rifting
ⓘ
seafloor spreading ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| locatedOffCoastOf |
Mexico
ⓘ
western Mexico ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Colima ⓘ |
| nearbyGeologicRegion |
Jalisco Block
ⓘ
Middle America Trench ⓘ |
| ocean | Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| partOf |
Rivera Transform Fault Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Rivera Plate boundary zone
boundary between Rivera Plate and neighboring plates ⓘ |
| plateBoundaryRole | separates Rivera Plate from adjacent oceanic plates ⓘ |
| region | eastern Pacific ⓘ |
| tectonicActivity |
earthquake generation
ⓘ
volcanism-related deformation ⓘ |
| tectonicSetting | plate boundary ⓘ |
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: Colima Rift Description of subject: Colima Rift is a tectonic spreading center and rift zone off the western coast of Mexico that marks part of the boundary between the Rivera Plate and the neighboring plates in the Pacific region.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tepic–Zacoalco Rift