Great Basin Desert
E133929
The Great Basin Desert is a cold, high-elevation desert in the western United States characterized by basin-and-range topography, sagebrush steppe, and an arid continental climate.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Great Basin Desert canonical | 54 |
| Great Basin desert | 11 |
| Great Basin | 8 |
| Great Basin Desert region | 4 |
| Great Basin high desert | 2 |
| Great Basin shrub steppe | 2 |
| Sevier Desert | 2 |
| Great Basin Desert (parts) | 1 |
| Great Basin desert ecosystem | 1 |
| Great Basin desert ecosystems | 1 |
| northwestern Great Basin Desert | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1003950 — 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: Great Basin Desert Context triple: [Walker Lake, locatedInDesert, Great Basin Desert]
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A.
Great Salt Lake Desert
The Great Salt Lake Desert is a vast, arid salt pan region in northwestern Utah, known for its expansive, barren landscapes and extreme dryness.
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B.
Mojave Desert
The Mojave Desert is a vast arid region in the southwestern United States known for its extreme temperatures, unique desert ecosystems, and iconic landscapes such as Death Valley and Joshua Tree.
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C.
Great Basin–Mojave transition zone
The Great Basin–Mojave transition zone is an ecologically and culturally significant desert region in the American Southwest where the Great Basin and Mojave deserts meet, characterized by mixed flora, fauna, and long-standing Indigenous presence.
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D.
Owyhee Desert
The Owyhee Desert is a remote, high-elevation sagebrush and canyon desert region spanning parts of Idaho, Oregon, and Nevada in the northwestern United States.
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E.
Amargosa Desert
The Amargosa Desert is an arid region in the Mojave Desert of Nevada and California, known for its extreme dryness, sparse vegetation, and proximity to Death Valley.
- 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: Great Basin Desert Target entity description: The Great Basin Desert is a cold, high-elevation desert in the western United States characterized by basin-and-range topography, sagebrush steppe, and an arid continental climate.
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A.
Great Salt Lake Desert
The Great Salt Lake Desert is a vast, arid salt pan region in northwestern Utah, known for its expansive, barren landscapes and extreme dryness.
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B.
Mojave Desert
The Mojave Desert is a vast arid region in the southwestern United States known for its extreme temperatures, unique desert ecosystems, and iconic landscapes such as Death Valley and Joshua Tree.
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C.
Great Basin–Mojave transition zone
The Great Basin–Mojave transition zone is an ecologically and culturally significant desert region in the American Southwest where the Great Basin and Mojave deserts meet, characterized by mixed flora, fauna, and long-standing Indigenous presence.
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D.
Owyhee Desert
The Owyhee Desert is a remote, high-elevation sagebrush and canyon desert region spanning parts of Idaho, Oregon, and Nevada in the northwestern United States.
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E.
Amargosa Desert
The Amargosa Desert is an arid region in the Mojave Desert of Nevada and California, known for its extreme dryness, sparse vegetation, and proximity to Death Valley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cold desert
ⓘ
desert ⓘ ecoregion ⓘ high-elevation desert ⓘ |
| biome | temperate desert ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Colorado Plateau
ⓘ
Mojave Desert ⓘ Sierra Nevada ⓘ Snake River Plain ⓘ Wasatch Range ⓘ |
| contains |
Black Rock Desert
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Bonneville Salt Flats ⓘ Carson Desert ⓘ Great Salt Lake Desert ⓘ Humboldt Sink ⓘ alkali flats ⓘ ephemeral lakes ⓘ playas ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dominantPlant |
big sagebrush
ⓘ
greasewood ⓘ saltbush ⓘ |
| dominantPlantGenus |
Artemisia
ⓘ
Atriplex ⓘ Sarcobatus ⓘ |
| fauna |
coyote
ⓘ
jackrabbit ⓘ pronghorn ⓘ sage grouse ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
cold winters
ⓘ
hot summers ⓘ internal drainage with no outlet to the ocean ⓘ large diurnal temperature range ⓘ low annual precipitation ⓘ |
| hasClimate | arid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasTopography | basin-and-range topography ⓘ |
| hasVegetation | sagebrush steppe ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
Great Basin ⓘ Idaho ⓘ Nevada ⓘ North America ⓘ Oregon ⓘ Utah ⓘ western United States ⓘ |
| partOf |
Basin and Range Province
ⓘ
interior drainage basin of North America ⓘ |
| typicalElevation | high elevation basins and ranges ⓘ |
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: Great Basin Desert Description of subject: The Great Basin Desert is a cold, high-elevation desert in the western United States characterized by basin-and-range topography, sagebrush steppe, and an arid continental climate.
Referenced by (87)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Great Basin desert ecosystem
subject surface form:
Goldfield, Nevada
this entity surface form:
Great Basin desert
subject surface form:
Garrison, Utah
this entity surface form:
Great Basin desert
this entity surface form:
Great Basin desert
this entity surface form:
Great Basin
subject surface form:
Southwestern Nevada
this entity surface form:
Great Basin Desert (parts)
this entity surface form:
Great Basin desert
this entity surface form:
Great Basin
subject surface form:
Independence, California
this entity surface form:
Great Basin Desert region
this entity surface form:
Great Basin desert
this entity surface form:
Great Basin Desert region
subject surface form:
Paradise Valley, Nevada
this entity surface form:
Great Basin
this entity surface form:
Great Basin desert ecosystems
this entity surface form:
Great Basin desert