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.

Jamestown locatedIn Great Plains
subject surface form: Jamestown, North Dakota
Garland, Nebraska region Great Plains
Cordova, Nebraska region Great Plains
Bridgeport locatedIn Great Plains
subject surface form: Bridgeport, Nebraska
Morganville, Kansas partOf Great Plains
Moody County locatedIn Great Plains
Battle Canyon partOf Great Plains
Battle Canyon region Great Plains
Thomas County, Kansas locatedIn Great Plains
Weatherford locatedIn Great Plains
subject surface form: Weatherford, Oklahoma
Elk City region Great Plains
Altus partOf Great Plains
Woods County, Oklahoma locatedIn Great Plains
Burdett, Kansas region Great Plains
Custer County partOf Great Plains
subject surface form: Custer County, Oklahoma
Plevna, Kansas locatedIn Great Plains
Oklahoma State Highway 34 region Great Plains
Riley, Kansas locatedIn Great Plains
South Hutchinson, Kansas region Great Plains
High Plains of Colorado partOf Great Plains
Western South Dakota locatedIn Great Plains
Sherman County, Kansas partOf Great Plains
Redwater River region Great Plains
Laverne, Oklahoma partOf Great Plains
Niobrara Valley partOf Great Plains
Niobrara County, Wyoming locatedIn Great Plains
present-day Nebraska locatedIn Great Plains
subject surface form: Nebraska
Rozel, Kansas locatedIn Great Plains
Douglas, Wyoming locatedIn Great Plains
Chase County, Kansas (namesake) partOf Great Plains
subject surface form: Chase County, Kansas
Neche, North Dakota partOf Great Plains
Central Kansas locatedIn Great Plains
Seven Council Fires locatedIn Great Plains
Logan County, Colorado locatedIn Great Plains
McCook County locatedIn Great Plains
Pender, Nebraska locatedIn Great Plains
South Band Pawnee region Great Plains
Central Nebraska locatedIn Great Plains
Valentine, Nebraska partOf Great Plains
Plains Indian Wars locatedIn Great Plains
Frederick, Oklahoma, United States partOf Great Plains
subject surface form: Frederick, Oklahoma
Lincoln County locatedIn Great Plains
subject surface form: Lincoln County, South Dakota