subducting Rivera Plate
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The subducting Rivera Plate is a small oceanic tectonic plate off western Mexico that is being forced beneath the North American Plate, contributing to regional volcanism and seismic activity near the Jalisco Block.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| subducting Rivera Plate canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5704064 — 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: subducting Rivera Plate Context triple: [Jalisco Block, overlies, subducting Rivera Plate]
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A.
Mariana subduction zone
The Mariana subduction zone is a deep oceanic trench system in the western Pacific where the Pacific Plate is forced beneath the smaller Mariana Plate, creating one of the world's deepest and most active tectonic boundaries.
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B.
Hikurangi subduction margin
The Hikurangi subduction margin is a major plate boundary off the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island where the Pacific Plate is being subducted beneath the Australian Plate, driving significant seismic, volcanic, and geothermal activity.
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C.
Andean subduction system
The Andean subduction system is a major tectonic convergent margin along western South America where an oceanic plate descends beneath the continent, driving Andean mountain building, volcanism, and seismic activity.
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D.
Sunda subduction system
The Sunda subduction system is a major convergent plate boundary in Southeast Asia where the Indo-Australian Plate is being subducted beneath the Eurasian/Sunda Plate, generating intense seismic and volcanic activity along Indonesia’s island arcs.
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E.
Tonga-Kermadec subduction system
The Tonga-Kermadec subduction system is a major convergent plate boundary in the southwest Pacific where the Pacific Plate descends beneath the Indo-Australian Plate, producing one of the world’s deepest ocean trenches and most active seismic and volcanic regions.
- 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: subducting Rivera Plate Target entity description: The subducting Rivera Plate is a small oceanic tectonic plate off western Mexico that is being forced beneath the North American Plate, contributing to regional volcanism and seismic activity near the Jalisco Block.
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A.
Mariana subduction zone
The Mariana subduction zone is a deep oceanic trench system in the western Pacific where the Pacific Plate is forced beneath the smaller Mariana Plate, creating one of the world's deepest and most active tectonic boundaries.
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B.
Hikurangi subduction margin
The Hikurangi subduction margin is a major plate boundary off the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island where the Pacific Plate is being subducted beneath the Australian Plate, driving significant seismic, volcanic, and geothermal activity.
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C.
Andean subduction system
The Andean subduction system is a major tectonic convergent margin along western South America where an oceanic plate descends beneath the continent, driving Andean mountain building, volcanism, and seismic activity.
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D.
Sunda subduction system
The Sunda subduction system is a major convergent plate boundary in Southeast Asia where the Indo-Australian Plate is being subducted beneath the Eurasian/Sunda Plate, generating intense seismic and volcanic activity along Indonesia’s island arcs.
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E.
Tonga-Kermadec subduction system
The Tonga-Kermadec subduction system is a major convergent plate boundary in the southwest Pacific where the Pacific Plate descends beneath the Indo-Australian Plate, producing one of the world’s deepest ocean trenches and most active seismic and volcanic regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
oceanic plate
ⓘ
subducting slab ⓘ tectonic plate ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Jalisco Block NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Jalisco subduction zone
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Middle America Trench NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| boundedBy |
Cocos Plate
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North American Plate NERFINISHED ⓘ Pacific Plate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causes |
interplate seismicity
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intraplate seismicity within the slab ⓘ megathrust earthquakes ⓘ |
| contributesTo |
regional volcanism in western Mexico
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seismic activity near the Jalisco Block ⓘ |
| hasComposition | mafic oceanic lithosphere ⓘ |
| hasTectonicSetting | convergent plate boundary ⓘ |
| influences |
arc volcanism in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt
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volcanism in the Colima volcanic complex ⓘ |
| isSiteOf |
bending-related normal faulting
ⓘ
slab dehydration processes ⓘ |
| isSmallerThan |
Cocos Plate
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pacific Plate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isStudiedIn |
plate tectonics research
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seismotectonics of western Mexico ⓘ subduction zone geodynamics ⓘ |
| locatedIn | eastern Pacific Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOffCoastOf | western Mexico ⓘ |
| movesRelativeTo |
Cocos Plate
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North American Plate NERFINISHED ⓘ Pacific Plate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Rivera Plate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subductsBeneath | North American Plate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: subducting Rivera Plate Description of subject: The subducting Rivera Plate is a small oceanic tectonic plate off western Mexico that is being forced beneath the North American Plate, contributing to regional volcanism and seismic activity near the Jalisco Block.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.