Yellowstone Plateau
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The Yellowstone Plateau is a high volcanic plateau in the Rocky Mountains of the western United States, renowned for its geothermal features, wildlife, and central role in Yellowstone National Park.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yellowstone Plateau canonical | 3 |
| Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7960160 — 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: Yellowstone Plateau Context triple: [Yellowstone Caldera, partOf, Yellowstone Plateau]
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A.
Yellowstone Valley
Yellowstone Valley is a scenic river valley in south-central Montana known for encompassing the city of Billings and following the course of the Yellowstone River.
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B.
Argonne plateau
Argonne plateau is a forested highland region in northeastern France known for its rugged terrain and significant role in World War I battles.
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C.
Modoc Plateau
The Modoc Plateau is a high, volcanic tableland in northeastern California and adjacent parts of Oregon and Nevada, characterized by lava flows, sagebrush steppe, and scattered forests.
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D.
High Lava Plains
The High Lava Plains is a volcanic plateau in southeastern Oregon characterized by extensive basaltic lava flows, scattered cinder cones, and high-elevation desert landscapes.
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E.
Yellowstone Caldera
Yellowstone Caldera is a massive volcanic supervolcano in the Yellowstone region, renowned for its geothermal features and potential for extremely large, explosive eruptions.
- 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: Yellowstone Plateau Target entity description: The Yellowstone Plateau is a high volcanic plateau in the Rocky Mountains of the western United States, renowned for its geothermal features, wildlife, and central role in Yellowstone National Park.
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A.
Yellowstone Valley
Yellowstone Valley is a scenic river valley in south-central Montana known for encompassing the city of Billings and following the course of the Yellowstone River.
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B.
Argonne plateau
Argonne plateau is a forested highland region in northeastern France known for its rugged terrain and significant role in World War I battles.
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C.
Modoc Plateau
The Modoc Plateau is a high, volcanic tableland in northeastern California and adjacent parts of Oregon and Nevada, characterized by lava flows, sagebrush steppe, and scattered forests.
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D.
High Lava Plains
The High Lava Plains is a volcanic plateau in southeastern Oregon characterized by extensive basaltic lava flows, scattered cinder cones, and high-elevation desert landscapes.
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E.
Yellowstone Caldera
Yellowstone Caldera is a massive volcanic supervolcano in the Yellowstone region, renowned for its geothermal features and potential for extremely large, explosive eruptions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographical region
ⓘ
volcanic plateau ⓘ |
| averageElevation | about 2500 meters ⓘ |
| climate | subalpine ⓘ |
| contains |
Yellowstone Lake
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
major geyser basins of Yellowstone National Park ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dominantRockType |
basaltic lava flows
ⓘ
rhyolitic volcanic rocks ⓘ |
| drainedBy |
Snake River tributaries
ⓘ
Yellowstone River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 2400–2700 meters above sea level ⓘ |
| faunaIncludes |
American bison
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
elk ⓘ gray wolf ⓘ grizzly bear ⓘ |
| formedBy | Yellowstone hotspot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geologicalAge | Quaternary ⓘ |
| geologicHazard |
frequent earthquakes
ⓘ
potential volcanic activity ⓘ |
| hasGeothermalFeatureDensity | one of the highest in the world ⓘ |
| hasLandform | broad high-elevation plain ⓘ |
| hasProcess | ongoing crustal uplift ⓘ |
| highestPointElevation | over 2700 meters ⓘ |
| knownFor |
fumaroles
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geothermal features ⓘ geyser basins ⓘ hot springs ⓘ hydrothermal activity ⓘ mud pots ⓘ wildlife ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Idaho
ⓘ
Montana ⓘ Rocky Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ Wyoming ⓘ western United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| overlies | Yellowstone Caldera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Yellowstone National Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yellowstone volcanic field NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protectedBy | Yellowstone National Park designation ⓘ |
| region | Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| researchImportance | key site for volcanology and geothermal studies ⓘ |
| role | core of Yellowstone National Park landscape ⓘ |
| surfaceExpressionOf | Yellowstone mantle plume NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| surroundedBy | mountain ranges of the Rocky Mountains ⓘ |
| tourismImportance | major destination for nature-based tourism ⓘ |
| vegetationType |
coniferous forests
ⓘ
subalpine meadows ⓘ |
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: Yellowstone Plateau Description of subject: The Yellowstone Plateau is a high volcanic plateau in the Rocky Mountains of the western United States, renowned for its geothermal features, wildlife, and central role in Yellowstone National Park.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field