Shoshone Range
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The Shoshone Range is a mountain range in central Nevada known for its rugged terrain and mining history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shoshone Range canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1088870 — 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: Shoshone Range Context triple: [Lander County, contains, Shoshone Range]
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A.
Uinta Mountains
The Uinta Mountains are an east–west trending mountain range in northeastern Utah known for their high alpine peaks, extensive wilderness areas, and the highest point in Utah, Kings Peak.
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B.
Elk Mountains
The Elk Mountains are a rugged subrange of the Rocky Mountains in western Colorado, known for their dramatic peaks, extensive wilderness, and popular hiking and skiing areas.
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C.
Wasatch Range
The Wasatch Range is a prominent mountain range in the western United States, forming the dramatic eastern backdrop of the Salt Lake City area and serving as a major hub for skiing, hiking, and other outdoor recreation.
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D.
Diablo Range
Diablo Range is a long, rugged mountain range in central California known for its chaparral-covered hills, diverse wildlife, and role as a natural barrier between the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Valley.
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E.
Cascade Range
The Cascade Range is a major mountain range in western North America known for its chain of volcanic peaks, including Mount St. Helens, Mount Rainier, and Mount Hood.
- 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: Shoshone Range Target entity description: The Shoshone Range is a mountain range in central Nevada known for its rugged terrain and mining history.
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A.
Uinta Mountains
The Uinta Mountains are an east–west trending mountain range in northeastern Utah known for their high alpine peaks, extensive wilderness areas, and the highest point in Utah, Kings Peak.
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B.
Elk Mountains
The Elk Mountains are a rugged subrange of the Rocky Mountains in western Colorado, known for their dramatic peaks, extensive wilderness, and popular hiking and skiing areas.
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C.
Wasatch Range
The Wasatch Range is a prominent mountain range in the western United States, forming the dramatic eastern backdrop of the Salt Lake City area and serving as a major hub for skiing, hiking, and other outdoor recreation.
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D.
Diablo Range
Diablo Range is a long, rugged mountain range in central California known for its chaparral-covered hills, diverse wildlife, and role as a natural barrier between the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Valley.
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E.
Cascade Range
The Cascade Range is a major mountain range in western North America known for its chain of volcanic peaks, including Mount St. Helens, Mount Rainier, and Mount Hood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mining district
ⓘ
mountain ⓘ mountain ⓘ mountain range ⓘ |
| boundedBy |
Crescent Valley
ⓘ
Reese River Valley ⓘ |
| climate | semi-arid ⓘ |
| contains | Cortez mining district ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| elevation |
2967 m
ⓘ
9735 ft ⓘ |
| geologicalType | fault-block range ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
base metal mining
ⓘ
gold mining ⓘ silver mining ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
grazing
ⓘ
mineral extraction ⓘ |
| hasPeak |
Mount Lewis
ⓘ
North Shoshone Peak ⓘ |
| hasRecreation |
hiking
ⓘ
hunting ⓘ off-road driving ⓘ |
| hasTerrain | rugged terrain ⓘ |
| hasVegetation |
pinyon-juniper woodland
ⓘ
sagebrush steppe ⓘ |
| highestPoint | Mount Lewis ⓘ |
| knownFor | mining history ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Nevada
ⓘ
Shoshone Range self-linksurface differs ⓘ Shoshone Range self-linksurface differs ⓘ Shoshone Range self-linksurface differs ⓘ central Nevada ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity | Lander County, Nevada ⓘ |
| managedBy |
U.S. Bureau of Land Management
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surface form:
Bureau of Land Management
|
| nearbySettlement |
Austin, Nevada
ⓘ
Battle Mountain ⓘ
surface form:
Battle Mountain, Nevada
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| orogeny | Basin and Range extension ⓘ |
| partOf | Basin and Range Province ⓘ |
| rockType |
igneous rock
ⓘ
metamorphic rock ⓘ sedimentary rock ⓘ |
| runsDirection | north–south ⓘ |
| timeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
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: Shoshone Range Description of subject: The Shoshone Range is a mountain range in central Nevada known for its rugged terrain and mining history.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mount Lewis
subject surface form:
North Shoshone Peak
subject surface form:
Cortez mining district