Blackwater Draw site

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Paleoindian site archaeological site

Blackwater Draw site is an important archaeological location on the Llano Estacado of eastern New Mexico known for early human occupation and distinctive Clovis culture artifacts.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Blackwater Draw site canonical	4
Blackwater Draw National Historic Landmark	2
Lehner Ranch site	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1949947 — 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: Blackwater Draw site
Context triple: [Paleo-Indian period, associatedWith, Blackwater Draw site]

A. Arlington Springs Man site
The Arlington Springs Man site is a significant Paleoindian archaeological locality on Santa Rosa Island in California, where some of the oldest known human remains in North America were discovered.
B. Hot Creek Geological Site
Hot Creek Geological Site is a geothermal area near Mammoth Lakes in California known for its steaming hot springs, colorful mineral pools, and dramatic volcanic landscape along Hot Creek.
C. Wolfs Cave
Wolfs Cave is a notable cave site within South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind, an area renowned for its rich fossil record and significance to human evolutionary history.
D. Wells Cave
Wells Cave is a notable cave within South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO World Heritage Site renowned for its rich hominin fossil record and karst landscape.
E. Russell Cave National Monument
Russell Cave National Monument is a prehistoric archaeological site in northeastern Alabama that preserves one of the most extensively used rock shelters in the southeastern United States, documenting thousands of years of Native American habitation.
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: Blackwater Draw site
Target entity description: Blackwater Draw site is an important archaeological location on the Llano Estacado of eastern New Mexico known for early human occupation and distinctive Clovis culture artifacts.

A. Arlington Springs Man site
The Arlington Springs Man site is a significant Paleoindian archaeological locality on Santa Rosa Island in California, where some of the oldest known human remains in North America were discovered.
B. Hot Creek Geological Site
Hot Creek Geological Site is a geothermal area near Mammoth Lakes in California known for its steaming hot springs, colorful mineral pools, and dramatic volcanic landscape along Hot Creek.
C. Wolfs Cave
Wolfs Cave is a notable cave site within South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind, an area renowned for its rich fossil record and significance to human evolutionary history.
D. Wells Cave
Wells Cave is a notable cave within South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO World Heritage Site renowned for its rich hominin fossil record and karst landscape.
E. Russell Cave National Monument
Russell Cave National Monument is a prehistoric archaeological site in northeastern Alabama that preserves one of the most extensively used rock shelters in the southeastern United States, documenting thousands of years of Native American habitation.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Paleoindian site ⓘ archaeological site ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Blackwater Draw Locality 1 ⓘ Blackwater Locality No. 1 ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
designatedAs	National Historic Landmark ⓘ
discoveredBy	Ridgely Whiteman ⓘ
discoveredIn	1929 ⓘ
earliestOccupationDate	approximately 13,000 years ago ⓘ
environment	semi-arid High Plains ⓘ
excavatedBy	Edgar B. Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ Penn Museum ⓘ surface form: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
geologicalAge	Late Pleistocene ⓘ
hasArchaeologicalCulture	Clovis culture ⓘ Folsom culture ⓘ surface form: Folsom tradition Late Paleoindian traditions ⓘ
hasEvidenceOf	Pleistocene megafauna hunting ⓘ bison hunting ⓘ early human use of freshwater resources ⓘ mammoth hunting ⓘ
hasFacility	Blackwater Draw Museum ⓘ
hasFeature	ancient spring-fed lake basin ⓘ kill and butchering areas ⓘ multiple stratified cultural layers ⓘ
hasFind	Clovis culture ⓘ surface form: Clovis points Folsom culture ⓘ surface form: Folsom points bone tools ⓘ faunal remains ⓘ hearths ⓘ ivory and bone foreshafts ⓘ
knownFor	Clovis culture artifacts ⓘ Folsom culture artifacts ⓘ Paleoindian kill and butchering areas ⓘ early human occupation ⓘ stratified archaeological deposits ⓘ
listedOn	National Register of Historic Places ⓘ
locatedIn	Llano Estacado ⓘ eastern New Mexico ⓘ
managedBy	Eastern New Mexico University ⓘ
near	Clovis, New Mexico ⓘ Portales, New Mexico ⓘ
nhlDesignationYear	1982 ⓘ
nrhpType	National Historic Landmark ⓘ surface form: National Historic Landmark district
openToPublic	true ⓘ
partOf	Blackwater Draw ⓘ
region	Llano Estacado ⓘ surface form: Southern High Plains
significance	key site for understanding Paleoindian lifeways on the Southern High Plains ⓘ type-site for Clovis culture ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Paleo-Indian period → associatedWith → Blackwater Draw site ⓘ

Clovis culture → archaeologicalSite → Blackwater Draw site ⓘ

this entity surface form: Lehner Ranch site

Clovis culture → discoveredAt → Blackwater Draw site ⓘ

Blackwater Draw Museum → locatedNear → Blackwater Draw site ⓘ

Blackwater Draw Museum → focusesOn → Blackwater Draw site ⓘ

Blackwater Draw Museum → nearbyAttraction → Blackwater Draw site ⓘ

this entity surface form: Blackwater Draw National Historic Landmark

Blackwater Draw Museum → associatedWith → Blackwater Draw site ⓘ