Sevier Dry Lake
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Sevier Dry Lake is a large endorheic dry lake bed in central Utah, known for its expansive salt flats and role in the Sevier Desert basin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sevier Dry Lake canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10358495 — 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: Sevier Dry Lake Context triple: [Sevier Lake, hasAlternateName, Sevier Dry Lake]
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A.
Panamint Dry Lake
Panamint Dry Lake is a dry, endorheic lakebed in California’s Panamint Valley, known for its salt flats and arid desert landscape near Death Valley.
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B.
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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C.
Owens Lake
Owens Lake is a largely dry, saline lake in California’s Eastern Sierra region, known for its dust pollution issues and ongoing environmental restoration efforts.
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D.
Cronese Dry Lake
Cronese Dry Lake is a dry lakebed in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California, known for its arid playa landscape and proximity to Interstate 15.
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E.
Ivanpah Dry Lake
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.
- 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: Sevier Dry Lake Target entity description: Sevier Dry Lake is a large endorheic dry lake bed in central Utah, known for its expansive salt flats and role in the Sevier Desert basin.
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A.
Panamint Dry Lake
Panamint Dry Lake is a dry, endorheic lakebed in California’s Panamint Valley, known for its salt flats and arid desert landscape near Death Valley.
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B.
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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C.
Owens Lake
Owens Lake is a largely dry, saline lake in California’s Eastern Sierra region, known for its dust pollution issues and ongoing environmental restoration efforts.
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D.
Cronese Dry Lake
Cronese Dry Lake is a dry lakebed in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California, known for its arid playa landscape and proximity to Interstate 15.
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E.
Ivanpah Dry Lake
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dry lake
ⓘ
endorheic lake ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| belongsTo | interior drainage of North America ⓘ |
| climate | arid ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| drainageBasin |
Sevier River basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Sevier River
|
| elevation |
approximately 1,380 meters above sea level
ⓘ
approximately 4,530 feet above sea level ⓘ |
| formedBy | evaporation of inflowing water ⓘ |
| geologicalSetting |
Sevier Desert basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Sevier Desert
|
| hasCharacteristic |
ephemeral surface water
ⓘ
expansive salt flats ⓘ flat topography ⓘ highly saline sediments ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
cracked mud surface in dry periods
ⓘ
shallow ephemeral ponds after heavy precipitation ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
limited grazing in surrounding area
ⓘ
military training in surrounding area ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | remnant of a larger Pleistocene lake system ⓘ |
| hydrologicalRegime | intermittent flooding ⓘ |
| hydrologicalType | endorheic basin ⓘ |
| isImportantFor |
Quaternary geology studies
ⓘ
paleoclimate research ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Sevier Desert hydrologic system
ⓘ
linked to:
Wasatch Front hydrologic system
|
| locatedIn |
Millard County, Utah
ⓘ
Sevier Desert ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Utah ⓘ central Utah ⓘ |
| mineralResource |
potash
ⓘ
salt ⓘ sulfate minerals ⓘ |
| near |
Delta, Utah
ⓘ
linked to:
Delta, Utah, United States
|
| outflow |
evaporation
ⓘ
infiltration ⓘ |
| partOf | Great Basin ⓘ |
| receivesInflowFrom | Sevier River ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Lake Bonneville ⓘ |
| sedimentType |
clay
ⓘ
evaporite deposits ⓘ silt ⓘ |
| surfaceType |
playa
ⓘ
salt pan ⓘ |
| usedFor | mineral extraction ⓘ |
| waterBalance | no surface outflow ⓘ |
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: Sevier Dry Lake Description of subject: Sevier Dry Lake is a large endorheic dry lake bed in central Utah, known for its expansive salt flats and role in the Sevier Desert basin.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.