Glen Canyon Group
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The Glen Canyon Group is a sequence of Early Jurassic sedimentary rock formations in the southwestern United States, notable for its extensive desert and fluvial deposits that record the transition from arid dune fields to river and lake environments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Glen Canyon Group canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6434991 — 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: Glen Canyon Group Context triple: [Kayenta Formation, partOf, Glen Canyon Group]
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Kayenta Formation
The Kayenta Formation is an Early Jurassic sandstone and siltstone rock unit on the Colorado Plateau, renowned for its distinctive red cliffs and important dinosaur fossil trackways.
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Chinle Formation
The Chinle Formation is a Late Triassic geologic formation in the southwestern United States, renowned for its colorful badlands, rich fossil beds, and extensive petrified wood deposits.
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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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Sundance Formation
The Sundance Formation is a Middle to Late Jurassic marine sedimentary rock unit in the western United States, known for its shallow sea deposits that underlie the dinosaur-rich Morrison Formation.
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Great Valley Group
The Great Valley Group is a thick sequence of sedimentary rock formations in California’s Great Valley, notable for preserving extensive marine and terrestrial deposits from the Mesozoic era.
- 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: Glen Canyon Group Target entity description: The Glen Canyon Group is a sequence of Early Jurassic sedimentary rock formations in the southwestern United States, notable for its extensive desert and fluvial deposits that record the transition from arid dune fields to river and lake environments.
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A.
Kayenta Formation
The Kayenta Formation is an Early Jurassic sandstone and siltstone rock unit on the Colorado Plateau, renowned for its distinctive red cliffs and important dinosaur fossil trackways.
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B.
Chinle Formation
The Chinle Formation is a Late Triassic geologic formation in the southwestern United States, renowned for its colorful badlands, rich fossil beds, and extensive petrified wood deposits.
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C.
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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D.
Sundance Formation
The Sundance Formation is a Middle to Late Jurassic marine sedimentary rock unit in the western United States, known for its shallow sea deposits that underlie the dinosaur-rich Morrison Formation.
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E.
Great Valley Group
The Great Valley Group is a thick sequence of sedimentary rock formations in California’s Great Valley, notable for preserving extensive marine and terrestrial deposits from the Mesozoic era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Glen Canyon Group Description of subject: The Glen Canyon Group is a sequence of Early Jurassic sedimentary rock formations in the southwestern United States, notable for its extensive desert and fluvial deposits that record the transition from arid dune fields to river and lake environments.
Referenced by (3)
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