La Brea Tar Pits
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La Brea Tar Pits is a famous Ice Age fossil site and natural asphalt seep in Los Angeles known for its exceptionally well-preserved prehistoric animal remains.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| La Brea Tar Pits canonical | 14 |
| La Brea Tar Pits and Museum | 12 |
| La Brea | 1 |
| La Brea Tar Pits Park | 1 |
| Rancho La Brea fossil assemblage | 1 |
| Rancho La Brea fossil locality complex | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T273798 — 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: La Brea Tar Pits Context triple: [Los Angeles County Museum of Art, adjacentTo, La Brea Tar Pits]
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A.
Hollywood Wax Museum
The Hollywood Wax Museum is a popular tourist attraction featuring lifelike wax figures of movie stars and entertainment icons, located in the heart of Hollywood.
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B.
Evolution Valley
Evolution Valley is a renowned high-elevation glacial valley in California’s Sierra Nevada, celebrated for its alpine meadows, granite peaks, and backcountry hiking along the John Muir Trail.
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C.
Lehman Caves
Lehman Caves is an extensive marble cave system famed for its intricate formations, located within Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada.
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D.
Chavez Ravine
Chavez Ravine is a hilly area in Los Angeles best known as the site of Dodger Stadium, home of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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E.
Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park
Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park is a scenic California coastal park in Big Sur known for its dramatic cliffs, redwood forests, and the iconic McWay Falls that drops onto the beach.
- 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: La Brea Tar Pits Target entity description: La Brea Tar Pits is a famous Ice Age fossil site and natural asphalt seep in Los Angeles known for its exceptionally well-preserved prehistoric animal remains.
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A.
Hollywood Wax Museum
The Hollywood Wax Museum is a popular tourist attraction featuring lifelike wax figures of movie stars and entertainment icons, located in the heart of Hollywood.
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B.
Evolution Valley
Evolution Valley is a renowned high-elevation glacial valley in California’s Sierra Nevada, celebrated for its alpine meadows, granite peaks, and backcountry hiking along the John Muir Trail.
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C.
Lehman Caves
Lehman Caves is an extensive marble cave system famed for its intricate formations, located within Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada.
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D.
Chavez Ravine
Chavez Ravine is a hilly area in Los Angeles best known as the site of Dodger Stadium, home of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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E.
Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park
Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park is a scenic California coastal park in Big Sur known for its dramatic cliffs, redwood forests, and the iconic McWay Falls that drops onto the beach.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fossil site
ⓘ
natural asphalt seep ⓘ paleontological site ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
La Brea Tar Pits
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
La Brea Tar Pits and Museum
|
| city | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fossilsAgeRange | approximately 10,000 to 50,000 years old ⓘ |
| fossilsDateTo | Late Pleistocene ⓘ |
| geologicalAge |
Pleistocene epoch
ⓘ
surface form:
Pleistocene
|
| hasCoordinateSystem | geographic coordinates ⓘ |
| hasDiscovery |
American lion fossils
ⓘ
Smilodon fatalis fossils ⓘ bird fossils ⓘ bison fossils ⓘ camel fossils ⓘ dire wolf fossils ⓘ ground sloth fossils ⓘ insect remains ⓘ mammoth fossils ⓘ microfossils ⓘ plant remains ⓘ |
| hasExcavationSite |
Pit 91
ⓘ
Project 23 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
active paleontological excavations
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bubbling asphalt pools ⓘ life-size prehistoric animal sculptures ⓘ |
| hasMaterial |
asphalt
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bitumen ⓘ tar ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Ice Age fossils
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asphalt seeps ⓘ exceptional preservation of prehistoric animals ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Spanish ⓘ |
| literalMeaningOfName | the tar pits ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Hancock Park ⓘ Los Angeles ⓘ |
| namedAfter | La Brea Avenue ⓘ |
| openToPublic | true ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County ⓘ |
| partOf | Miracle Mile district ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | one of the richest Ice Age fossil sites in the world ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| touristAttractionIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| usedSince |
Ice Age (film series)
ⓘ
surface form:
Ice Age
|
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: La Brea Tar Pits Description of subject: La Brea Tar Pits is a famous Ice Age fossil site and natural asphalt seep in Los Angeles known for its exceptionally well-preserved prehistoric animal remains.
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La Brea Tar Pits Park
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