Ordos Desert

E737558

The Ordos Desert is a high-altitude desert region in Inner Mongolia, China, characterized by arid plateaus, sand dunes, and steppe landscapes within the great bend of the Yellow River.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Gobi Desert region 1
Ordos Desert canonical 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf desert
geographical region
borderedBy Yellow River NERFINISHED
climate arid
continental
climateCharacteristic cold winters
hot summers
large diurnal temperature range
low annual precipitation
continent Asia
country China
countrySubdivision Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region NERFINISHED
elevation high-altitude
geology loess deposits
sand deposits
hasConservationIssue land degradation
overgrazing
sand encroachment
hasEcosystem steppe
temperate desert
hasFeature dry riverbeds
dune fields
rocky outcrops
hasHumanActivity animal husbandry
coal mining in surrounding areas
hasRiver Yellow River NERFINISHED
knownFor desertification issues
wind erosion
locatedIn Chinese Loess Plateau region NERFINISHED
Inner Mongolia NERFINISHED
Ordos Basin NERFINISHED
Ordos Loop NERFINISHED
great bend of the Yellow River NERFINISHED
northern China NERFINISHED
near Ordos City NERFINISHED
partOf East Asian deserts
Ordos Plateau NERFINISHED
Yellow River basin NERFINISHED
regionType interior drainage basin
terrain arid plateau
sand dunes
steppe landscape
usedFor extensive grazing
pastoralism
vegetation shrubland
sparse grassland

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: Ordos Desert
Description of subject: The Ordos Desert is a high-altitude desert region in Inner Mongolia, China, characterized by arid plateaus, sand dunes, and steppe landscapes within the great bend of the Yellow River.

Referenced by (2)

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

Ordos locatedIn Ordos Desert
Bayannur locatedIn Ordos Desert
this entity surface form: Gobi Desert region