Delaware Basin
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The Delaware Basin is a large sedimentary basin in southeastern New Mexico and western Texas known for its extensive oil and gas reserves and thick Permian-age evaporite deposits.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Delaware Basin canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6022587 — 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: Delaware Basin Context triple: [Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, locatedIn, Delaware Basin]
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A.
Alvord Basin
Alvord Basin is an arid endorheic basin in southeastern Oregon known for its expansive playa, surrounding mountain ranges, and striking high-desert landscape.
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B.
South Basin
South Basin is a prominent glacial cirque on Maine’s Mount Katahdin, characterized by steep rock walls and a bowl-shaped valley formed by ancient glacial erosion.
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C.
Mono Basin
Mono Basin is a high-desert watershed in eastern California best known for Mono Lake, its striking tufa formations, and its dramatic Eastern Sierra scenery.
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D.
Espanola Basin
The Española Basin is a major sedimentary and structural basin in northern New Mexico that forms part of the Rio Grande Rift and hosts significant groundwater and geologic resources.
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E.
Wyoming Basin
The Wyoming Basin is a broad, high-elevation intermontane region in the western United States characterized by arid basins, plateaus, and significant fossil fuel and mineral resources.
- 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: Delaware Basin Target entity description: The Delaware Basin is a large sedimentary basin in southeastern New Mexico and western Texas known for its extensive oil and gas reserves and thick Permian-age evaporite deposits.
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A.
Alvord Basin
Alvord Basin is an arid endorheic basin in southeastern Oregon known for its expansive playa, surrounding mountain ranges, and striking high-desert landscape.
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B.
South Basin
South Basin is a prominent glacial cirque on Maine’s Mount Katahdin, characterized by steep rock walls and a bowl-shaped valley formed by ancient glacial erosion.
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C.
Mono Basin
Mono Basin is a high-desert watershed in eastern California best known for Mono Lake, its striking tufa formations, and its dramatic Eastern Sierra scenery.
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D.
Espanola Basin
The Española Basin is a major sedimentary and structural basin in northern New Mexico that forms part of the Rio Grande Rift and hosts significant groundwater and geologic resources.
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E.
Wyoming Basin
The Wyoming Basin is a broad, high-elevation intermontane region in the western United States characterized by arid basins, plateaus, and significant fossil fuel and mineral resources.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geologic basin
ⓘ
sedimentary basin ⓘ |
| basinType | foreland basin ⓘ |
| boundedBy |
Central Basin Platform
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Glass Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ Northwest Shelf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
carbonate rocks
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clastic sedimentary rocks ⓘ conventional carbonate reservoirs ⓘ evaporite deposits ⓘ unconventional shale reservoirs ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| depositionalEnvironment |
deep-water basin during Permian
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restricted marine basin ⓘ |
| economicImportance |
major U.S. natural gas production area
ⓘ
major U.S. oil production area ⓘ |
| formedDuring | Late Paleozoic ⓘ |
| geologicAge | Permian ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Bell Canyon Formation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brushy Canyon Formation NERFINISHED ⓘ Capitan Reef complex NERFINISHED ⓘ Castile Formation NERFINISHED ⓘ Cherry Canyon Formation NERFINISHED ⓘ Delaware Mountain Group NERFINISHED ⓘ Rustler Formation NERFINISHED ⓘ Salado Formation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasResource |
brine
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potash (in associated evaporites) ⓘ |
| hydrocarbonProvince |
natural gas
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oil ⓘ |
| knownFor |
extensive natural gas reserves
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extensive oil reserves ⓘ thick Permian-age evaporite deposits ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
southeastern New Mexico
ⓘ
western Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| overlainBy | Cenozoic sediments ⓘ |
| partOf |
North American craton margin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Permian Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
West Texas oil and gas fields
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
southeastern New Mexico oil and gas fields ⓘ |
| stratigraphyIncludes |
Guadalupian Series
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Leonardian Series NERFINISHED ⓘ Wolfcampian Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studiedFor |
Permian reef and basin evolution
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evaporite deposition processes ⓘ hydrocarbon system modeling ⓘ |
| underlies |
Guadalupe Mountains
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
part of the Delaware Mountains ⓘ |
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: Delaware Basin Description of subject: The Delaware Basin is a large sedimentary basin in southeastern New Mexico and western Texas known for its extensive oil and gas reserves and thick Permian-age evaporite deposits.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.