Bell Canyon Formation
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The Bell Canyon Formation is a Permian-age sedimentary rock unit in the Delaware Basin of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico, notable for its deep-marine sandstones and shales that record the basin’s late Paleozoic geologic history.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bell Canyon Formation canonical | 1 |
| Cherry Canyon Formation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22821161 — 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: Bell Canyon Formation Context triple: [Delaware Basin, hasPart, Bell Canyon Formation]
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Poison Canyon Formation
The Poison Canyon Formation is a geologic rock unit in the Raton Basin of Colorado and New Mexico, known for its Paleocene-age fluvial sandstones, mudstones, and coal beds that record post-dinosaur terrestrial environments.
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Horseshoe Canyon Formation
The Horseshoe Canyon Formation is a Late Cretaceous geological formation in Alberta, Canada, renowned for its rich and diverse dinosaur fossil assemblages.
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Moenave Formation
The Moenave Formation is an Early Jurassic geologic formation in the southwestern United States, notable for its fluvial and lacustrine sandstones and mudstones that preserve abundant dinosaur tracks and other vertebrate fossils.
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Wahweap Formation
The Wahweap Formation is a Late Cretaceous sedimentary rock unit in southern Utah renowned for its rich fossil record of dinosaurs and other ancient life.
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Bell Canyon
Bell Canyon is a scenic, narrow sandstone canyon known for its striking rock formations and hiking routes within Utah’s San Rafael Swell.
- 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: Bell Canyon Formation Target entity description: The Bell Canyon Formation is a Permian-age sedimentary rock unit in the Delaware Basin of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico, notable for its deep-marine sandstones and shales that record the basin’s late Paleozoic geologic history.
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A.
Poison Canyon Formation
The Poison Canyon Formation is a geologic rock unit in the Raton Basin of Colorado and New Mexico, known for its Paleocene-age fluvial sandstones, mudstones, and coal beds that record post-dinosaur terrestrial environments.
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B.
Horseshoe Canyon Formation
The Horseshoe Canyon Formation is a Late Cretaceous geological formation in Alberta, Canada, renowned for its rich and diverse dinosaur fossil assemblages.
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C.
Moenave Formation
The Moenave Formation is an Early Jurassic geologic formation in the southwestern United States, notable for its fluvial and lacustrine sandstones and mudstones that preserve abundant dinosaur tracks and other vertebrate fossils.
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D.
Wahweap Formation
The Wahweap Formation is a Late Cretaceous sedimentary rock unit in southern Utah renowned for its rich fossil record of dinosaurs and other ancient life.
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E.
Bell Canyon
Bell Canyon is a scenic, narrow sandstone canyon known for its striking rock formations and hiking routes within Utah’s San Rafael Swell.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bell Canyon Formation