Valles Caldera
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Valles Caldera is a large volcanic caldera in northern New Mexico known for its expansive grassland valleys, geothermal features, and rich geological and ecological significance.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Valles Caldera National Preserve | 12 |
| Valles Caldera canonical | 8 |
| Jemez volcanic field | 2 |
| Jemez Mountains volcanic field | 1 |
| Valles Caldera National Preserve (adjacent/partly surrounded) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1067691 — 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: Valles Caldera Context triple: [Jemez Mountains region, near, Valles Caldera]
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A.
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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B.
Garibaldi Lake volcanic field
Garibaldi Lake volcanic field is a volcanic region in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, known for its stratovolcanoes, lava domes, and extensive Pleistocene to Holocene volcanic activity.
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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.
River Calder
The River Calder is a major river in West Yorkshire, England, flowing through several industrial towns before joining the River Aire.
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E.
Tokopah Valley
Tokopah Valley is a scenic glacial valley in California’s Sierra Nevada known for its granite cliffs, alpine meadows, and proximity to Tokopah Falls within Sequoia National Park.
- 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: Valles Caldera Target entity description: Valles Caldera is a large volcanic caldera in northern New Mexico known for its expansive grassland valleys, geothermal features, and rich geological and ecological significance.
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A.
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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B.
Garibaldi Lake volcanic field
Garibaldi Lake volcanic field is a volcanic region in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, known for its stratovolcanoes, lava domes, and extensive Pleistocene to Holocene volcanic activity.
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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.
River Calder
The River Calder is a major river in West Yorkshire, England, flowing through several industrial towns before joining the River Aire.
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E.
Tokopah Valley
Tokopah Valley is a scenic glacial valley in California’s Sierra Nevada known for its granite cliffs, alpine meadows, and proximity to Tokopah Falls within Sequoia National Park.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geologic formation
ⓘ
protected area ⓘ volcanic caldera ⓘ |
| climate | high-elevation continental climate ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| county |
Sandoval County, New Mexico
ⓘ
surface form:
Sandoval County
|
| elevationClass | high plateau ⓘ |
| formedBy | collapse of a large volcano ⓘ |
| hasAccessibility | open to the public with managed access ⓘ |
| hasAge | Quaternary ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificanceFor |
Native Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
Native American communities
|
| hasEcologicalSignificance | high ⓘ |
| hasEcosystem |
coniferous forest
ⓘ
montane grassland ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
expansive grassland valleys
ⓘ
forested rim ⓘ fumaroles ⓘ geothermal features ⓘ hot springs ⓘ meadows ⓘ rhyolitic lava domes ⓘ |
| hasGeologicalOrigin | volcanic activity ⓘ |
| hasGeologicalSignificance | high ⓘ |
| hasGeologicalType | resurgent caldera ⓘ |
| hasHydrologyFeature | headwaters of several streams ⓘ |
| hasLandCover |
forests
ⓘ
grasslands ⓘ |
| hasLandUseHistory |
logging
ⓘ
ranching ⓘ |
| knownFor |
geothermal activity
ⓘ
research in geology and ecology ⓘ scenic landscapes ⓘ wildlife habitat ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Jemez Mountains region
ⓘ
surface form:
Jemez Mountains
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
northern New Mexico ⓘ |
| managedBy | National Park Service ⓘ |
| near |
Los Alamos, New Mexico
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Alamos
Santa Fe ⓘ |
| partOf |
Jemez volcanic field
ⓘ
Valles Caldera self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Valles Caldera National Preserve
|
| protectedAs | national preserve ⓘ |
| state | New Mexico ⓘ |
| usedFor |
grazing (historically)
ⓘ
hiking ⓘ recreation ⓘ scientific research ⓘ wildlife viewing ⓘ |
| volcanicField | Jemez volcanic field ⓘ |
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: Valles Caldera Description of subject: Valles Caldera is a large volcanic caldera in northern New Mexico known for its expansive grassland valleys, geothermal features, and rich geological and ecological significance.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Valles Caldera National Preserve
this entity surface form:
Valles Caldera National Preserve
this entity surface form:
Valles Caldera National Preserve (adjacent/partly surrounded)
this entity surface form:
Valles Caldera National Preserve
this entity surface form:
Jemez volcanic field
this entity surface form:
Valles Caldera National Preserve
this entity surface form:
Valles Caldera National Preserve
this entity surface form:
Jemez Mountains volcanic field
this entity surface form:
Valles Caldera National Preserve
this entity surface form:
Jemez volcanic field
this entity surface form:
Valles Caldera National Preserve
this entity surface form:
Valles Caldera National Preserve
this entity surface form:
Valles Caldera National Preserve
this entity surface form:
Valles Caldera National Preserve
this entity surface form:
Valles Caldera National Preserve
this entity surface form:
Valles Caldera National Preserve