Great Plains

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The Great Plains is a vast, mostly flat grassland region in central North America known for its prairies, agriculture, and continental climate.

All labels observed (60)

Label Occurrences
Great Plains canonical 789
Great Plains region 57
United States Great Plains region 53

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (59)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ecoregion
geographical region
grassland
borders Interior Lowlands
Mississippi River basin
Rocky Mountains
characterizedBy continental climate
flat to gently rolling terrain
prairie grasslands
semiarid conditions
climateType humid continental climate
semiarid steppe climate
contains Great Plains self-linksurface differs
surface form: High Plains

Mixed-grass prairie
Ogallala Aquifer
Shortgrass prairie
Tallgrass prairie
continent North America
countrySubdivision Alberta
Kansas
Manitoba
Montana
Nebraska
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Saskatchewan
South Dakota
Texas Panhandle
Wyoming
eastern Colorado
eastern New Mexico
extendsFrom Canada
extendsTo Mexico
New Mexico
Texas
historicalEvent Dust Bowl
historicallyInhabitedBy Blackfoot
Cheyenne
Comanche
Sioux people
surface form: Lakota

Pawnee
Native Americans
surface form: Plains Indians
historicalPeriod 19th-century westward expansion in the United States
knownFor agriculture
cattle ranching
corn production
oil and gas extraction
wheat production
locatedIn Canada
United States of America
surface form: United States
majorRiver Arkansas River
Canadian River
Missouri River
Platte River
Red River of the South
partOf Interior Lowlands
surface form: Interior Plains
subjectTo blizzards
droughts
tornadoes

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Referenced by (1,134)

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

Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma originalRegion Great Plains
this entity surface form: Central Plains
Kitkahahki Pawnee traditionalRegion Great Plains
this entity surface form: Central Great Plains
Treaty of 1833 location Great Plains
Treaty of 1833 historicalRegion Great Plains
Treaty of 1873 historicalRegion Great Plains
Ogallala, Nebraska partOf Great Plains
Ogallala, Nebraska region Great Plains
this entity surface form: High Plains
Battle of the Little Bighorn historicalRegion Great Plains
this entity surface form: Northern Plains
Two Moon region Great Plains
this entity surface form: Northern Plains
Bozeman Trail locatedIn Great Plains
this entity surface form: Northern Plains
Bozeman Trail region Great Plains
this entity surface form: Northern Great Plains
Powder River Country partOf Great Plains
Fetterman Fight theater Great Plains
Hayfield Fight historicalRegion Great Plains
this entity surface form: Northern Plains
Wagon Box Fight region Great Plains
this entity surface form: Northern Great Plains
Powder River Expedition theater Great Plains
this entity surface form: Northern Great Plains
Fort Phil Kearny region Great Plains
this entity surface form: Northern Great Plains
Fort Reno region Great Plains
Frederick W. Lander workLocation Great Plains
Cheyenne County partOf Great Plains
subject surface form: Cheyenne County, Colorado
North Platte River partOf Great Plains
this entity surface form: Great Plains region
Battle of the Rosebud hasTheater Great Plains
this entity surface form: Northern Plains
Battle of the Powder River (1876) theater Great Plains
this entity surface form: Northern Plains
West Fork Little Blue River flowsThrough Great Plains
this entity surface form: United States Great Plains region
Wounded Knee Creek locatedIn Great Plains
Wounded Knee Creek region Great Plains
this entity surface form: Northern Great Plains
Fort C. F. Smith region Great Plains
this entity surface form: Northern Great Plains
Peter A. Sarpy region Great Plains
Yellowstone River crosses Great Plains
Battle of the Tongue River (1876) theater Great Plains
this entity surface form: Northern Plains
Dull Knife Fight historicalRegion Great Plains
Comanche language historicalRegion Great Plains
Pampa partOf Great Plains
this entity surface form: Great Plains region
Deaf Smith County partOf Great Plains
Armstrong County hasLandscape Great Plains
this entity surface form: High Plains
Pawnee, Oklahoma region Great Plains
Kiowa County locatedIn Great Plains
subject surface form: Kiowa County, Colorado
Kiowa County locatedIn Great Plains
subject surface form: Kiowa County, Colorado
this entity surface form: United States Great Plains region
Roosevelt County, New Mexico hasRegion Great Plains
this entity surface form: High Plains
Algic geographicDistribution Great Plains
Battle of the Yellowstone (1876) theater Great Plains
this entity surface form: Northern Plains
Battle of the Yellowstone (1876) region Great Plains
this entity surface form: Northern Great Plains
Pawhuska, Oklahoma partOf Great Plains
this entity surface form: Great Plains region
Douglas County, Kansas locatedIn Great Plains
this entity surface form: Great Plains region