Nanjemoy Formation
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The Nanjemoy Formation is an early Eocene geologic formation in the mid-Atlantic United States known for its marine sediments and diverse fossil assemblages.
All labels observed (1)
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17338572 — 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: Nanjemoy Formation Context triple: [Calvert Formation, overlies, Nanjemoy Formation]
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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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Areyonga Formation
The Areyonga Formation is a geological rock unit within central Australia's Amadeus Basin, known for its sedimentary sequences that record Proterozoic environmental and tectonic history.
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C.
Scollard Formation
The Scollard Formation is a Late Cretaceous to early Paleocene geological formation in Alberta, Canada, known for preserving diverse dinosaur fossils and evidence of the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary.
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D.
Claron Formation
The Claron Formation is a geologic rock unit of colorful limestones and mudstones best known for forming the striking hoodoos and cliffs of Bryce Canyon and other parts of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in southern Utah.
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Yeso Formation
The Yeso Formation is a geologic unit of early Permian age in the southwestern United States, notable for its thick sequences of evaporites and sandstones that record arid, shallow-marine and coastal depositional environments within the Permian Basin region.
- 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: Nanjemoy Formation Target entity description: The Nanjemoy Formation is an early Eocene geologic formation in the mid-Atlantic United States known for its marine sediments and diverse fossil assemblages.
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A.
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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B.
Areyonga Formation
The Areyonga Formation is a geological rock unit within central Australia's Amadeus Basin, known for its sedimentary sequences that record Proterozoic environmental and tectonic history.
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C.
Scollard Formation
The Scollard Formation is a Late Cretaceous to early Paleocene geological formation in Alberta, Canada, known for preserving diverse dinosaur fossils and evidence of the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary.
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D.
Claron Formation
The Claron Formation is a geologic rock unit of colorful limestones and mudstones best known for forming the striking hoodoos and cliffs of Bryce Canyon and other parts of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in southern Utah.
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E.
Yeso Formation
The Yeso Formation is a geologic unit of early Permian age in the southwestern United States, notable for its thick sequences of evaporites and sandstones that record arid, shallow-marine and coastal depositional environments within the Permian Basin region.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.