Maracaibo Basin
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The Maracaibo Basin is a large sedimentary basin in northwestern Venezuela known for its rich petroleum reserves and encompassing Lake Maracaibo.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lake Maracaibo basin | 15 |
| Maracaibo Basin canonical | 4 |
| Lake Maracaibo region | 3 |
| Lake Maracaibo Basin | 2 |
| Catatumbo Basin | 1 |
| Lake Maracaibo oil region | 1 |
| Maracaibo Basin region | 1 |
| Maracaibo Lake basin | 1 |
| Maracaibo basin region | 1 |
| Maracaibo lowlands | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7157639 — 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: Maracaibo Basin Context triple: [Lake Maracaibo, locatedIn, Maracaibo Basin]
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A.
Orinoco Basin
The Orinoco Basin is a vast tropical river basin in northern South America, encompassing large parts of Venezuela and Colombia and supporting extensive rainforest, wetlands, and rich biodiversity.
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Venezuelan Basin
The Venezuelan Basin is a deep oceanic basin in the southern Caribbean, lying off the coasts of Venezuela and nearby islands and forming one of the major structural depressions of the Caribbean Sea.
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C.
Orinoco Belt
The Orinoco Belt is a vast oil-rich region in eastern Venezuela known for containing one of the world’s largest extra-heavy crude oil reserves.
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D.
Llanos de Moxos
Llanos de Moxos is a vast seasonally flooded tropical savanna and wetland region in northern Bolivia, known for its rich biodiversity and extensive pre-Columbian earthworks.
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E.
Orinoco Delta
The Orinoco Delta is a vast, swampy river delta in eastern Venezuela where the Orinoco River empties into the Atlantic Ocean, characterized by a complex network of distributaries and rich biodiversity.
- 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: Maracaibo Basin Target entity description: The Maracaibo Basin is a large sedimentary basin in northwestern Venezuela known for its rich petroleum reserves and encompassing Lake Maracaibo.
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A.
Orinoco Basin
The Orinoco Basin is a vast tropical river basin in northern South America, encompassing large parts of Venezuela and Colombia and supporting extensive rainforest, wetlands, and rich biodiversity.
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B.
Venezuelan Basin
The Venezuelan Basin is a deep oceanic basin in the southern Caribbean, lying off the coasts of Venezuela and nearby islands and forming one of the major structural depressions of the Caribbean Sea.
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C.
Orinoco Belt
The Orinoco Belt is a vast oil-rich region in eastern Venezuela known for containing one of the world’s largest extra-heavy crude oil reserves.
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D.
Llanos de Moxos
Llanos de Moxos is a vast seasonally flooded tropical savanna and wetland region in northern Bolivia, known for its rich biodiversity and extensive pre-Columbian earthworks.
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E.
Orinoco Delta
The Orinoco Delta is a vast, swampy river delta in eastern Venezuela where the Orinoco River empties into the Atlantic Ocean, characterized by a complex network of distributaries and rich biodiversity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
petroleum basin
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sedimentary basin ⓘ |
| administrativeRegion |
Zulia State
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parts of Mérida State ⓘ parts of Trujillo State ⓘ parts of Táchira State ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Andes Mountains
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linked to:
Andes
Sierra de Perijá ⓘ Venezuelan coastal ranges ⓘ
linked to:
Venezuelan Coastal Range
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| climate | tropical ⓘ |
| contains |
Lake Maracaibo
ⓘ
offshore oil fields in Lake Maracaibo ⓘ onshore oil fields ⓘ |
| containsStructure |
fault-bounded blocks
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folds ⓘ thrust faults ⓘ |
| country | Venezuela ⓘ |
| drainageBasinOf | Lake Maracaibo ⓘ |
| geologicalAge |
Cenozoic
ⓘ
Mesozoic ⓘ
linked to:
Mesozoic Era
|
| hasBasinType |
intracratonic basin
ⓘ
strike-slip influenced basin ⓘ |
| hasCityOnMargin | Maracaibo ⓘ |
| hasEconomicImportance |
key component of Venezuelan petroleum industry
ⓘ
major oil-producing region of Venezuela ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentalIssue |
oil pollution risk in Lake Maracaibo
ⓘ
subsidence related to hydrocarbon extraction ⓘ |
| hasExplorationHistory | one of the earliest developed oil basins in Latin America ⓘ |
| hasHydrology |
connected to Gulf of Venezuela via Tablazo Strait
ⓘ
linked to:
Strait of Maracaibo
|
| hasNaturalResource |
natural gas
ⓘ
petroleum ⓘ |
| hasOperator | Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. ⓘ |
| hasSedimentFill |
carbonates
ⓘ
clastic sediments ⓘ |
| hasStratigraphy | thick sedimentary sequence ⓘ |
| hydrocarbonSystem |
multiple petroleum source rocks
ⓘ
stratigraphic traps ⓘ structural traps ⓘ |
| knownFor | rich petroleum reserves ⓘ |
| languageOfRegion | Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedIn | northwestern Venezuela ⓘ |
| majorIndustry |
oil production
ⓘ
refining and petrochemicals ⓘ |
| overlies |
Paleozoic basement
ⓘ
Precambrian basement ⓘ |
| partOf |
Caribbean-South American plate boundary region
ⓘ
linked to:
Caribbean Plate boundary zone
South America ⓘ |
| tectonicSetting | foreland basin ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Maracaibo Basin Description of subject: The Maracaibo Basin is a large sedimentary basin in northwestern Venezuela known for its rich petroleum reserves and encompassing Lake Maracaibo.
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