Queenston Shale
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Queenston Shale is a Late Ordovician red shale formation in southern Ontario, Canada, known for its easily eroded, clay-rich sediments that create distinctive badlands topography.
All labels observed (1)
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| Queenston Shale canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23495968 — 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: Queenston Shale Context triple: [Cheltenham Badlands, geologicalComposition, Queenston Shale]
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A.
Gaskiers Formation
The Gaskiers Formation is a Neoproterozoic rock unit in Newfoundland, Canada, notable for preserving geological evidence of one of the late Precambrian global glaciations.
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B.
Barberton Greenstone Belt
The Barberton Greenstone Belt is one of the oldest and best-preserved pieces of Earth’s early continental crust, renowned for its Archean volcanic and sedimentary rocks that provide key evidence about the planet’s early geological and biological history.
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C.
Antrim Shale
Antrim Shale is a Devonian-age black shale formation in the Michigan Basin known as a significant source of natural gas and hydrocarbons.
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D.
Gowganda Formation
The Gowganda Formation is a Paleoproterozoic sedimentary rock unit in the Huronian Supergroup of Ontario, Canada, notable for preserving some of the most important geological evidence of ancient global-scale glaciation.
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E.
Cambrian Ridge
Cambrian Ridge is a renowned multi-course golf complex in Alabama that forms part of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail.
- 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: Queenston Shale Target entity description: Queenston Shale is a Late Ordovician red shale formation in southern Ontario, Canada, known for its easily eroded, clay-rich sediments that create distinctive badlands topography.
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A.
Gaskiers Formation
The Gaskiers Formation is a Neoproterozoic rock unit in Newfoundland, Canada, notable for preserving geological evidence of one of the late Precambrian global glaciations.
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B.
Barberton Greenstone Belt
The Barberton Greenstone Belt is one of the oldest and best-preserved pieces of Earth’s early continental crust, renowned for its Archean volcanic and sedimentary rocks that provide key evidence about the planet’s early geological and biological history.
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C.
Antrim Shale
Antrim Shale is a Devonian-age black shale formation in the Michigan Basin known as a significant source of natural gas and hydrocarbons.
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D.
Gowganda Formation
The Gowganda Formation is a Paleoproterozoic sedimentary rock unit in the Huronian Supergroup of Ontario, Canada, notable for preserving some of the most important geological evidence of ancient global-scale glaciation.
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E.
Cambrian Ridge
Cambrian Ridge is a renowned multi-course golf complex in Alabama that forms part of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.