Raton Basin
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Raton Basin is a geologic structural basin spanning southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, known for its coal, coalbed methane resources, and distinctive sedimentary rock formations.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Raton Basin canonical | 3 |
| Raton Basin area | 1 |
| Raton Basin region | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T776663 — 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: Raton Basin Context triple: [Southern Colorado, hasRegion, Raton Basin]
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A.
Amargosa River basin
The Amargosa River basin is an arid watershed in the Mojave Desert known for its intermittent river, unique desert ecosystems, and rare oases supporting specialized wildlife.
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B.
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.
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C.
Mono Basin
Mono Basin is a high-desert watershed in eastern California best known for Mono Lake, its striking tufa formations, and its dramatic Eastern Sierra scenery.
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D.
Antelope Valley
Antelope Valley is a high-desert region in Southern California known for its poppy fields, aerospace industry presence, and location at the western edge of the Mojave Desert.
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E.
Anza Valley
Anza Valley is a high-desert valley in Southern California known for its rural landscapes, ranching, and historical significance to Indigenous peoples.
- 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: Raton Basin Target entity description: Raton Basin is a geologic structural basin spanning southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, known for its coal, coalbed methane resources, and distinctive sedimentary rock formations.
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A.
Amargosa River basin
The Amargosa River basin is an arid watershed in the Mojave Desert known for its intermittent river, unique desert ecosystems, and rare oases supporting specialized wildlife.
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B.
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.
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C.
Mono Basin
Mono Basin is a high-desert watershed in eastern California best known for Mono Lake, its striking tufa formations, and its dramatic Eastern Sierra scenery.
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D.
Antelope Valley
Antelope Valley is a high-desert region in Southern California known for its poppy fields, aerospace industry presence, and location at the western edge of the Mojave Desert.
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E.
Anza Valley
Anza Valley is a high-desert valley in Southern California known for its rural landscapes, ranching, and historical significance to Indigenous peoples.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geologic structural basin
ⓘ
sedimentary basin ⓘ |
| boundedBy |
Apishapa uplift
ⓘ
Sangre de Cristo Mountains ⓘ
surface form:
Sangre de Cristo uplift
|
| contains |
Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary
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Poison Canyon Formation ⓘ Raton Formation ⓘ Trinidad Sandstone ⓘ Vermejo Formation ⓘ coal seams ⓘ coalbed methane reservoirs ⓘ thick nonmarine clastic sequences ⓘ volcaniclastic deposits ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| depositionalEnvironment |
deltaic
ⓘ
fluvial ⓘ lacustrine ⓘ |
| developedFor |
coal mining
ⓘ
natural gas extraction ⓘ |
| extendsInto |
Colfax County, New Mexico
ⓘ
Huerfano County, Colorado ⓘ Las Animas County, Colorado ⓘ Mora County, New Mexico ⓘ |
| formedBy | Laramide orogeny ⓘ |
| geologicAge |
Late Cretaceous
ⓘ
Paleocene ⓘ |
| hasEconomicImportance |
coal mining industry
ⓘ
natural gas industry ⓘ regional energy production ⓘ |
| knownFor |
coal resources
ⓘ
coalbed methane ⓘ natural gas production ⓘ sedimentary rock formations ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
northern New Mexico
ⓘ
southern Colorado ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Raton Pass
ⓘ
Raton, New Mexico ⓘ |
| near |
Apishapa uplift
ⓘ
Sangre de Cristo Mountains ⓘ |
| overlies | Precambrian basement rocks ⓘ |
| partOf |
Rocky Mountain region
ⓘ
surface form:
Rocky Mountains region
|
| primaryResourceType |
bituminous coal
ⓘ
coalbed methane gas ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction boundary studies
ⓘ
Laramide foreland basin evolution ⓘ coalbed methane reservoir characterization ⓘ |
| structuralStyle | asymmetric foreland basin ⓘ |
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: Raton Basin Description of subject: Raton Basin is a geologic structural basin spanning southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, known for its coal, coalbed methane resources, and distinctive sedimentary rock formations.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Raton Basin region
this entity surface form:
Raton Basin area