Fort Rock Cave
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Fort Rock Cave is an archaeological site in Oregon renowned for yielding some of the oldest known Native American artifacts in North America, including ancient sagebrush-bark sandals.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fort Rock Cave canonical | 6 |
| Fort Rock Cave excavations | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fort Rock Cave Context triple: [Fort Rock–Christmas Lake Valley, contains, Fort Rock Cave]
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Horse Shoe Cave
Horse Shoe Cave is an archaeological site in Nevada, United States, renowned for its well-preserved prehistoric artifacts and ancient human remains.
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Fish Rock Cave
Fish Rock Cave is a renowned ocean cave and scuba diving site off the coast of New South Wales, Australia, famous for its grey nurse sharks and rich marine biodiversity.
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Wells Cave
Wells Cave is a notable cave within South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO World Heritage Site renowned for its rich hominin fossil record and karst landscape.
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Wolfs Cave
Wolfs Cave is a notable cave site within South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind, an area renowned for its rich fossil record and significance to human evolutionary history.
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E.
Victoria Fossil Cave
Victoria Fossil Cave is a renowned fossil-rich limestone cave in South Australia, famous for its exceptionally well-preserved Pleistocene vertebrate remains.
- 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: Fort Rock Cave Target entity description: Fort Rock Cave is an archaeological site in Oregon renowned for yielding some of the oldest known Native American artifacts in North America, including ancient sagebrush-bark sandals.
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A.
Horse Shoe Cave
Horse Shoe Cave is an archaeological site in Nevada, United States, renowned for its well-preserved prehistoric artifacts and ancient human remains.
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B.
Fish Rock Cave
Fish Rock Cave is a renowned ocean cave and scuba diving site off the coast of New South Wales, Australia, famous for its grey nurse sharks and rich marine biodiversity.
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C.
Wells Cave
Wells Cave is a notable cave within South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO World Heritage Site renowned for its rich hominin fossil record and karst landscape.
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D.
Wolfs Cave
Wolfs Cave is a notable cave site within South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind, an area renowned for its rich fossil record and significance to human evolutionary history.
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E.
Victoria Fossil Cave
Victoria Fossil Cave is a renowned fossil-rich limestone cave in South Australia, famous for its exceptionally well-preserved Pleistocene vertebrate remains.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
archaeological site
ⓘ
cave ⓘ |
| access | guided tours only ⓘ |
| artifactTypeFound |
faunal remains
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sagebrush-bark sandals ⓘ stone tools ⓘ |
| associatedWithPeople | early Native American inhabitants of the Great Basin ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| designatedAs | National Historic Landmark ⓘ |
| environmentalContext | arid Great Basin environment ⓘ |
| estimatedAgeOfKeyArtifacts | approximately 9,000 to 10,000 years old ⓘ |
| excavatedBy | Luther Cressman ⓘ |
| excavationStartDate | 1938 ⓘ |
| geologicalSetting | tuff ring formation ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalCulture |
Early Holocene hunter-gatherers
ⓘ
Paleo-Indian ⓘ
linked to:
Paleo-Indian period
|
| hasDatingMethod | radiocarbon dating of sandals ⓘ |
| hasDiscovery | Fort Rock sandals ⓘ |
| hasMaterial | basalt and volcanic tuff surroundings ⓘ |
| hasProtectionStatus | listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| hasResearchField |
anthropology
ⓘ
archaeology ⓘ paleoenvironmental studies ⓘ |
| hasSignificance |
contains some of the oldest directly dated footwear in the world
ⓘ
evidence for early peopling of the Americas ⓘ key site for Great Basin prehistory ⓘ |
| knownFor |
ancient sagebrush-bark sandals
ⓘ
early human occupation evidence in the Great Basin ⓘ yielding some of the oldest known Native American artifacts in North America ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Fort Rock Basin
ⓘ
Great Basin region ⓘ
linked to:
Great Basin
Lake County, Oregon ⓘ Oregon ⓘ |
| locatedInProtectedArea | Fort Rock State Natural Area vicinity ⓘ |
| locatedNear | community of Fort Rock, Oregon ⓘ |
| managedBy | Oregon Parks and Recreation Department ⓘ |
| nationalHistoricLandmarkDesignationYear | 1961 ⓘ |
| nearestCity |
Bend, Oregon (regional center)
ⓘ
linked to:
Bend, Oregon
|
| openToPublic | true ⓘ |
| partOf |
Great Basin archaeological region
ⓘ
linked to:
Great Basin culture area
|
| region | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| timeDepthOfOccupation | late Pleistocene to early Holocene ⓘ |
| tourismType | heritage tourism ⓘ |
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Subject: Fort Rock Cave Description of subject: Fort Rock Cave is an archaeological site in Oregon renowned for yielding some of the oldest known Native American artifacts in North America, including ancient sagebrush-bark sandals.
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