Soda Lake
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Soda Lake is a dry alkali lakebed in the Mojave Desert of California, known for its white mineral crusts and stark desert landscape.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Soda Lake canonical | 7 |
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
alkali lakebed
ⓘ
dry lake ⓘ endorheic basin ⓘ |
| access | via roads from Interstate 15 ⓘ |
| climate |
arid
ⓘ
desert climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county |
San Bernardino County
ⓘ
surface form:
San Bernardino County, California
|
| drainageType | closed basin ⓘ |
| ecosystem | desert playa ecosystem ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 280 meters above sea level ⓘ |
| formedBy | evaporation of standing water ⓘ |
| geologicalFeature | dry lakebed ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
alkaline soils
ⓘ
ephemeral surface water after heavy rains ⓘ stark desert landscape ⓘ white mineral crusts ⓘ |
| hazard | soft mud and crust break-through risk after rains ⓘ |
| hydrology | receives intermittent runoff from surrounding desert ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Mojave Desert ⓘ San Bernardino County ⓘ
surface form:
San Bernardino County, California
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| mineralDeposit |
other evaporite minerals
ⓘ
sodium bicarbonate ⓘ sodium carbonate ⓘ sodium chloride ⓘ |
| near |
Interstate 15 in California
ⓘ
Zzyzx, California ⓘ |
| notableFor | bright white salt and soda crusts visible from distance ⓘ |
| partOf | Mojave National Preserve ⓘ |
| protectionStatus | within a U.S. National Preserve ⓘ |
| region | eastern Mojave Desert ⓘ |
| salinity | high ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| surfaceCondition |
may be muddy after rainfall
ⓘ
usually dry ⓘ |
| surfaceType | playa ⓘ |
| tourism | low to moderate visitation ⓘ |
| usedFor |
desert ecology research
ⓘ
geological study ⓘ scenic desert viewing ⓘ |
| vegetation | sparse halophytic plants at margins ⓘ |
| viewedFrom | nearby highways and overlooks ⓘ |
| waterType | alkaline ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Soda Lake Description of subject: Soda Lake is a dry alkali lakebed in the Mojave Desert of California, known for its white mineral crusts and stark desert landscape.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.