Four Corners region
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The Four Corners region is the area in the southwestern United States where the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado meet at a single point, known for its Native American cultures and desert landscapes.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Four Corners region canonical | 51 |
| Four Corners area | 4 |
| Four Corners area (New Mexico portion) | 1 |
| Four Corners region (broader area) | 1 |
| Four Corners region (broadly defined) | 1 |
| Four Corners trade area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T70914 — 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: Four Corners region Context triple: [western United States, culturalRegionIncludes, Four Corners region]
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A.
southwestern United States
The southwestern United States is a largely arid region encompassing parts of states like Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and California, known for its deserts, canyons, and diverse indigenous and Hispanic cultural influences.
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B.
Basin and Range Province
The Basin and Range Province is a vast geologic region of the western United States and northern Mexico characterized by alternating mountain ranges and arid basins formed through crustal extension.
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C.
Whitney Portal region
The Whitney Portal region is a high-elevation gateway area in California’s Sierra Nevada that serves as the primary access point for hikers and climbers heading to Mount Whitney and nearby wilderness trails.
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D.
western United States
The western United States is a broad region of the country known for its diverse landscapes, including major mountain ranges, deserts, and Pacific coastline, as well as large urban centers and significant cultural and economic influence.
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E.
Northern Nevada
Northern Nevada is a region of the U.S. state of Nevada known for its high desert landscapes, proximity to the Sierra Nevada mountains, and cities like Reno and Carson City that serve as gateways to outdoor recreation and entertainment.
- 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: Four Corners region Target entity description: The Four Corners region is the area in the southwestern United States where the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado meet at a single point, known for its Native American cultures and desert landscapes.
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A.
southwestern United States
The southwestern United States is a largely arid region encompassing parts of states like Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and California, known for its deserts, canyons, and diverse indigenous and Hispanic cultural influences.
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B.
Basin and Range Province
The Basin and Range Province is a vast geologic region of the western United States and northern Mexico characterized by alternating mountain ranges and arid basins formed through crustal extension.
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C.
Whitney Portal region
The Whitney Portal region is a high-elevation gateway area in California’s Sierra Nevada that serves as the primary access point for hikers and climbers heading to Mount Whitney and nearby wilderness trails.
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D.
western United States
The western United States is a broad region of the country known for its diverse landscapes, including major mountain ranges, deserts, and Pacific coastline, as well as large urban centers and significant cultural and economic influence.
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E.
Northern Nevada
Northern Nevada is a region of the U.S. state of Nevada known for its high desert landscapes, proximity to the Sierra Nevada mountains, and cities like Reno and Carson City that serve as gateways to outdoor recreation and entertainment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
border quadripoint
ⓘ
geographic region ⓘ |
| borderFeature | only point in the United States where four states meet at a single point ⓘ |
| borderWith |
Arizona
ⓘ
Colorado ⓘ New Mexico ⓘ Utah ⓘ |
| climate |
arid
ⓘ
semi-arid ⓘ |
| contains |
Canyon de Chelly National Monument
ⓘ
Chaco Culture National Historical Park ⓘ Colorado Plateau ⓘ Four Corners Monument (Arizona corner) ⓘ
surface form:
Four Corners Monument
Hovenweep National Monument ⓘ Mesa Verde National Park ⓘ Monument Valley (Arizona portion) ⓘ
surface form:
Monument Valley
Navajo Nation ⓘ
surface form:
Navajo Nation capital Window Rock vicinity
Shiprock formation vicinity ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| elevation | high plateau ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Hopi people
ⓘ
Navajo people ⓘ Ute people ⓘ Zuni people ⓘ |
| geology |
canyons
ⓘ
mesas ⓘ sandstone formations ⓘ |
| governance | combination of state and tribal jurisdictions ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | meeting of four U.S. states ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Arizona
ⓘ
Colorado ⓘ Hopi Reservation ⓘ Navajo Nation ⓘ New Mexico ⓘ Utah ⓘ Ute Mountain Ute Reservation ⓘ Zuni Reservation ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Native American cultures
ⓘ
canyon landscapes ⓘ desert landscapes ⓘ plateaus and mesas ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
southwestern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Southwestern United States
|
| partOf |
Colorado Plateau
ⓘ
surface form:
Colorado Plateau province
|
| timeZone | Mountain Time Zone ⓘ |
| tourism |
cultural tourism
ⓘ
heritage tourism ⓘ outdoor recreation ⓘ |
| transportation |
U.S. Route 160
ⓘ
U.S. Route 191 ⓘ |
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: Four Corners region Description of subject: The Four Corners region is the area in the southwestern United States where the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado meet at a single point, known for its Native American cultures and desert landscapes.
Referenced by (59)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Western New Mexico
this entity surface form:
Four Corners trade area