Temple Butte Formation
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The Temple Butte Formation is a Middle to Late Devonian sedimentary rock unit of the Grand Canyon region, notable for its dolomites and limestones that record ancient marine and nearshore environments predating the Mississippian Redwall Limestone.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23347445 — 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: Temple Butte Formation Context triple: [Redwall Limestone, overlies, Temple Butte Formation]
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Brushy Canyon Formation
The Brushy Canyon Formation is a Permian-age sedimentary rock unit in the Delaware Basin of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico, notable for its deep-water sandstone and siltstone deposits that form important hydrocarbon reservoirs.
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Kiowa Formation
The Kiowa Formation is a Cretaceous geologic unit in the central United States, known for its marine sediments that record an early transgression of the Western Interior Seaway.
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Salado Formation
The Salado Formation is a thick Permian-age evaporite rock unit in the southwestern United States, notable for its extensive salt deposits and use as a host formation for underground waste repositories.
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Moenkopi Formation
The Moenkopi Formation is a widespread Triassic-age sedimentary rock unit of the southwestern United States, known for its reddish-brown mudstones and sandstones that record ancient river, tidal, and shallow marine environments.
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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.
- 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: Temple Butte Formation Target entity description: The Temple Butte Formation is a Middle to Late Devonian sedimentary rock unit of the Grand Canyon region, notable for its dolomites and limestones that record ancient marine and nearshore environments predating the Mississippian Redwall Limestone.
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A.
Brushy Canyon Formation
The Brushy Canyon Formation is a Permian-age sedimentary rock unit in the Delaware Basin of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico, notable for its deep-water sandstone and siltstone deposits that form important hydrocarbon reservoirs.
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B.
Kiowa Formation
The Kiowa Formation is a Cretaceous geologic unit in the central United States, known for its marine sediments that record an early transgression of the Western Interior Seaway.
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C.
Salado Formation
The Salado Formation is a thick Permian-age evaporite rock unit in the southwestern United States, notable for its extensive salt deposits and use as a host formation for underground waste repositories.
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D.
Moenkopi Formation
The Moenkopi Formation is a widespread Triassic-age sedimentary rock unit of the southwestern United States, known for its reddish-brown mudstones and sandstones that record ancient river, tidal, and shallow marine environments.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.