Rivera microplate
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The Rivera microplate is a small tectonic plate off the west coast of Mexico, bounded by major fault zones and spreading centers where it interacts with the Pacific and North American plates.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rivera microplate canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5704031 — 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: Rivera microplate Context triple: [Rivera Transform Fault Zone, relatedTo, Rivera microplate]
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A.
Gorda Plate
The Gorda Plate is a small tectonic plate off the coast of northern California that forms part of the complex plate boundary system between the Pacific and North American Plates.
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B.
Nazca Plate
The Nazca Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate in the southeastern Pacific that subducts beneath the South American Plate, driving Andean mountain building and frequent earthquakes and volcanism along the western coast of South America.
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C.
Farallon Plate
The Farallon Plate was a large, ancient oceanic tectonic plate in the Pacific that has mostly subducted beneath the North American Plate, leaving only fragments such as the Juan de Fuca Plate.
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D.
Scotia Plate
The Scotia Plate is a small tectonic plate in the South Atlantic Ocean, located between the South American and Antarctic Plates and associated with the complex plate boundaries and seismic activity of the Scotia Sea region.
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E.
South American Plate
The South American Plate is a major tectonic plate underlying the continent of South America and adjacent Atlantic seafloor, whose movements shape regional geology, mountain building, and seismic activity.
- 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: Rivera microplate Target entity description: The Rivera microplate is a small tectonic plate off the west coast of Mexico, bounded by major fault zones and spreading centers where it interacts with the Pacific and North American plates.
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A.
Gorda Plate
The Gorda Plate is a small tectonic plate off the coast of northern California that forms part of the complex plate boundary system between the Pacific and North American Plates.
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B.
Nazca Plate
The Nazca Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate in the southeastern Pacific that subducts beneath the South American Plate, driving Andean mountain building and frequent earthquakes and volcanism along the western coast of South America.
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C.
Farallon Plate
The Farallon Plate was a large, ancient oceanic tectonic plate in the Pacific that has mostly subducted beneath the North American Plate, leaving only fragments such as the Juan de Fuca Plate.
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D.
Scotia Plate
The Scotia Plate is a small tectonic plate in the South Atlantic Ocean, located between the South American and Antarctic Plates and associated with the complex plate boundaries and seismic activity of the Scotia Sea region.
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E.
South American Plate
The South American Plate is a major tectonic plate underlying the continent of South America and adjacent Atlantic seafloor, whose movements shape regional geology, mountain building, and seismic activity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Rivera microplate Description of subject: The Rivera microplate is a small tectonic plate off the west coast of Mexico, bounded by major fault zones and spreading centers where it interacts with the Pacific and North American plates.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.