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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Chicago and North Western Railway Company servedAgriculturalRegion Great Plains
this entity surface form: Great Plains wheat belt
Kiowa County, Colorado locatedIn Great Plains
this entity surface form: High Plains
Kiowa County, Colorado partOf Great Plains
Kiowa County, Colorado locatedIn Great Plains
this entity surface form: United States Great Plains region
Oklahoma Territory locatedIn Great Plains
Interior Highlands locatedIn Great Plains
this entity surface form: United States Interior Plains
Interior Highlands borderedBy Great Plains
central Canada partOf Great Plains
subject surface form: Central Canada
this entity surface form: Interior Plains
Western Missouri locatedIn Great Plains
this entity surface form: Great Plains (eastern edge)
Lake Francis Case region Great Plains
Fort Dodge region Great Plains
Baca County, Colorado locatedIn Great Plains
Baca County, Colorado locatedIn Great Plains
this entity surface form: High Plains
Baca County, Colorado locatedIn Great Plains
this entity surface form: United States Great Plains region
Girard, Kansas locatedIn Great Plains
this entity surface form: Great Plains region of the United States
Southeast Kansas locatedIn Great Plains
Platte River region Great Plains
Salina, Kansas, United States locatedOn Great Plains
subject surface form: Salina, Kansas
Canadian River locatedIn Great Plains
Canadian River region Great Plains
this entity surface form: Southern Great Plains
Neosho County, Kansas partOf Great Plains
Frontenac, Kansas region Great Plains
Labette County, Kansas partOf Great Plains
Arma, Kansas isInRegion Great Plains
Black Hills partOf Great Plains
Caddoan languages spokenIn Great Plains
Caddoan languages region Great Plains
this entity surface form: Northern Plains
Council Grove, Kansas partOf Great Plains
this entity surface form: United States Great Plains region
Indian Campaign Medal theater Great Plains
Dissected Till Plains partOf Great Plains
this entity surface form: Interior Plains
Dissected Till Plains borderedBy Great Plains
this entity surface form: Central Till Plains
western Nebraska locatedIn Great Plains
western Nebraska locatedIn Great Plains
this entity surface form: High Plains
Wynnewood, Oklahoma, United States isInRegion Great Plains
subject surface form: Wynnewood, Oklahoma
South Platte River crosses Great Plains
this entity surface form: High Plains
Finney County Historical Museum locatedIn Great Plains
this entity surface form: Great Plains region
U.S. Route 85 passesThroughRegion Great Plains
Franklin, Kansas locatedIn Great Plains
this entity surface form: United States Great Plains region
Ford County, Kansas locatedInRegion Great Plains
Ford County, Kansas locatedInRegion Great Plains
this entity surface form: High Plains
Southwestern Kansas locatedIn Great Plains