Yaqui Valley
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Yaqui Valley is an agricultural region in the Mexican state of Sonora, renowned as a cradle of the Green Revolution for its high-yield wheat production and intensive irrigated farming.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Río Sonora valley | 2 |
| Río Yaqui valley | 2 |
| Yaqui Valley canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5857606 — 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: Yaqui Valley Context triple: [Ciudad Obregón, locatedInRegion, Yaqui Valley]
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A.
San Pedro River Valley
The San Pedro River Valley is a biologically rich, semi-arid corridor in southeastern Arizona known for its riparian habitats, migratory bird populations, and conservation significance.
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B.
San Pedro River valley
The San Pedro River valley is an arid yet fertile Andean valley in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert, known for its oasis settlements, pre-Columbian archaeological sites, and dramatic desert landscapes.
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C.
Imperial Valley
Imperial Valley is an agricultural region in southeastern California known for its intensive year-round farming made possible by irrigation from the Colorado River.
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D.
Mexicali Valley
Mexicali Valley is a major agricultural region in northern Baja California, Mexico, known for its extensive irrigated farmlands and proximity to the U.S.–Mexico border.
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E.
Santa Cruz River basin
The Santa Cruz River basin is the watershed region in southern Arizona and northern Mexico that collects and channels surface and groundwater feeding the Santa Cruz River system.
- 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: Yaqui Valley Target entity description: Yaqui Valley is an agricultural region in the Mexican state of Sonora, renowned as a cradle of the Green Revolution for its high-yield wheat production and intensive irrigated farming.
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A.
San Pedro River Valley
The San Pedro River Valley is a biologically rich, semi-arid corridor in southeastern Arizona known for its riparian habitats, migratory bird populations, and conservation significance.
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B.
San Pedro River valley
The San Pedro River valley is an arid yet fertile Andean valley in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert, known for its oasis settlements, pre-Columbian archaeological sites, and dramatic desert landscapes.
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C.
Imperial Valley
Imperial Valley is an agricultural region in southeastern California known for its intensive year-round farming made possible by irrigation from the Colorado River.
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D.
Mexicali Valley
Mexicali Valley is a major agricultural region in northern Baja California, Mexico, known for its extensive irrigated farmlands and proximity to the U.S.–Mexico border.
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E.
Santa Cruz River basin
The Santa Cruz River basin is the watershed region in southern Arizona and northern Mexico that collects and channels surface and groundwater feeding the Santa Cruz River system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | agricultural region ⓘ |
| agriculturalPractice |
double cropping
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mechanized farming ⓘ use of chemical pesticides ⓘ use of synthetic fertilizers ⓘ |
| associatedWithOrganization |
CIMMYT
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rockefeller Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithScientist | Norman Borlaug NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate |
arid
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semi-arid ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| describedAs | cradle of the Green Revolution ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
commercial agriculture
ⓘ
export-oriented crop production ⓘ |
| environmentalIssue |
agrochemical pollution
ⓘ
groundwater depletion ⓘ soil salinization ⓘ water scarcity ⓘ |
| hasCity | Ciudad Obregón NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructure |
agricultural research stations
ⓘ
drainage networks ⓘ large-scale irrigation canals ⓘ |
| hasSoilType | alluvial soils ⓘ |
| historicalPeriodOfDevelopment | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| irrigationSource | Yaqui River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| irrigationType |
canal irrigation
ⓘ
surface irrigation ⓘ |
| knownFor |
high-yield wheat production
ⓘ
intensive irrigated farming ⓘ role in the Green Revolution ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Sonora
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
northwestern Mexico ⓘ |
| mainCrop |
cotton
ⓘ
maize ⓘ vegetables ⓘ wheat ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Yaqui River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yaqui people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Yaqui River basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionType |
intensive farming region
ⓘ
irrigated desert valley ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
crop management
ⓘ
sustainable agriculture ⓘ wheat breeding ⓘ |
| roleInAgriculturalHistory |
early testing ground for semi-dwarf wheat
ⓘ
model for irrigated wheat systems worldwide ⓘ |
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: Yaqui Valley Description of subject: Yaqui Valley is an agricultural region in the Mexican state of Sonora, renowned as a cradle of the Green Revolution for its high-yield wheat production and intensive irrigated farming.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Río Yaqui valley
this entity surface form:
Río Sonora valley
this entity surface form:
Río Sonora valley
this entity surface form:
Río Yaqui valley