Crow Creek Member
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The Crow Creek Member is a distinct stratigraphic unit within the Pierre Shale, recognized for its characteristic sedimentary deposits that help geologists interpret the Late Cretaceous marine environments of the Western Interior Seaway.
All labels observed (1)
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| Crow Creek Member canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15239075 — 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: Crow Creek Member Context triple: [Pierre Shale, hasSubunits, Crow Creek Member]
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Kiowa Formation
The Kiowa Formation is a Cretaceous geologic unit in the central United States, known for its marine sediments that record an early transgression of the Western Interior Seaway.
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Fort Union Formation
The Fort Union Formation is a widespread Paleocene sedimentary rock unit in the northern Great Plains of the United States, known for its coal beds and important fossil flora and fauna that record early Cenozoic terrestrial environments.
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C.
Curtis Formation
The Curtis Formation is a Middle Jurassic geologic unit in the western United States, characterized mainly by marine sandstones and siltstones that record shallow sea environments.
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D.
Dakota Formation
The Dakota Formation is a widespread Cretaceous sedimentary rock unit in North America, noted for its sandstone deposits that record the advance of the Western Interior Seaway and preserve abundant plant and dinosaur fossils.
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E.
Sundance Formation
The Sundance Formation is a Middle to Late Jurassic marine sedimentary rock unit in the western United States, known for its shallow sea deposits that underlie the dinosaur-rich Morrison Formation.
- 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: Crow Creek Member Target entity description: The Crow Creek Member is a distinct stratigraphic unit within the Pierre Shale, recognized for its characteristic sedimentary deposits that help geologists interpret the Late Cretaceous marine environments of the Western Interior Seaway.
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A.
Kiowa Formation
The Kiowa Formation is a Cretaceous geologic unit in the central United States, known for its marine sediments that record an early transgression of the Western Interior Seaway.
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B.
Fort Union Formation
The Fort Union Formation is a widespread Paleocene sedimentary rock unit in the northern Great Plains of the United States, known for its coal beds and important fossil flora and fauna that record early Cenozoic terrestrial environments.
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C.
Curtis Formation
The Curtis Formation is a Middle Jurassic geologic unit in the western United States, characterized mainly by marine sandstones and siltstones that record shallow sea environments.
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D.
Dakota Formation
The Dakota Formation is a widespread Cretaceous sedimentary rock unit in North America, noted for its sandstone deposits that record the advance of the Western Interior Seaway and preserve abundant plant and dinosaur fossils.
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E.
Sundance Formation
The Sundance Formation is a Middle to Late Jurassic marine sedimentary rock unit in the western United States, known for its shallow sea deposits that underlie the dinosaur-rich Morrison Formation.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.