Ivanpah Dry Lake
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Ivanpah Dry Lake is a large, flat, dry lakebed in the Mojave Desert of southeastern California, known for land sailing, off-highway recreation, and its proximity to the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ivanpah Dry Lake canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T488841 — 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: Ivanpah Dry Lake Context triple: [Ivanpah Valley, hasPart, Ivanpah Dry Lake]
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A.
Soda Dry Lake
Soda Dry Lake is a dry lake bed in California’s Mojave Desert, known for its stark salt flats and proximity to the former health resort site of Zzyzx.
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B.
El Mirage Dry Lake
El Mirage Dry Lake is a dry lakebed in California known for its vast, flat playa used for land-speed racing, off-highway recreation, and film production within the Mojave Desert.
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C.
Black Rock Desert
Black Rock Desert is a remote, arid playa in northwestern Nevada known for its vast alkali flats, stark landscapes, and as the longtime site of the Burning Man festival.
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D.
Ivanpah Valley
Ivanpah Valley is an arid basin in the northeastern Mojave Desert known for its desert landscapes, dry lakebeds, and large-scale solar energy installations.
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E.
Saline Valley
Saline Valley is a remote, arid basin in eastern California known for its stark desert landscapes, natural hot springs, and isolation within the northern Mojave Desert.
- 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: Ivanpah Dry Lake Target entity description: Ivanpah Dry Lake is a large, flat, dry lakebed in the Mojave Desert of southeastern California, known for land sailing, off-highway recreation, and its proximity to the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System.
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A.
Soda Dry Lake
Soda Dry Lake is a dry lake bed in California’s Mojave Desert, known for its stark salt flats and proximity to the former health resort site of Zzyzx.
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B.
El Mirage Dry Lake
El Mirage Dry Lake is a dry lakebed in California known for its vast, flat playa used for land-speed racing, off-highway recreation, and film production within the Mojave Desert.
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C.
Black Rock Desert
Black Rock Desert is a remote, arid playa in northwestern Nevada known for its vast alkali flats, stark landscapes, and as the longtime site of the Burning Man festival.
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D.
Ivanpah Valley
Ivanpah Valley is an arid basin in the northeastern Mojave Desert known for its desert landscapes, dry lakebeds, and large-scale solar energy installations.
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E.
Saline Valley
Saline Valley is a remote, arid basin in eastern California known for its stark desert landscapes, natural hot springs, and isolation within the northern Mojave Desert.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dry lake
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geographic feature ⓘ playa ⓘ |
| access | via off-highway routes from I-15 ⓘ |
| climate | arid ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| elevation |
approximately 2,600 feet above sea level
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approximately 790 meters above sea level ⓘ |
| geology | playa deposits ⓘ |
| hydrology | ephemeral lakebed ⓘ |
| knownFor |
land sailing
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large, open playa surface ⓘ off-highway vehicle recreation ⓘ winds suitable for land sailing ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Mojave Desert
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Mojave National Preserve vicinity ⓘ San Bernardino County ⓘ
surface form:
San Bernardino County, California
Southern California ⓘ
surface form:
southeastern California
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| management | federal public lands jurisdiction (Bureau of Land Management) ⓘ |
| near |
California–Nevada state line
ⓘ
Ivanpah Valley ⓘ
surface form:
Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System
Primm, Nevada ⓘ |
| partOf | Ivanpah Valley ⓘ |
| proximityToBorder | near Nevada–California border ⓘ |
| proximityToRoad | Interstate 15 ⓘ |
| region | Southern California ⓘ |
| surfaceType |
dry lakebed
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flat ⓘ |
| usedFor |
filming and photography locations
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land sailing events ⓘ off-road driving ⓘ recreational activities ⓘ |
| windConditions | generally strong and steady winds ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Ivanpah Dry Lake Description of subject: Ivanpah Dry Lake is a large, flat, dry lakebed in the Mojave Desert of southeastern California, known for land sailing, off-highway recreation, and its proximity to the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System.
Referenced by (1)
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