Mount Kembla mining disaster
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The Mount Kembla mining disaster was a catastrophic 1902 coal mine explosion in New South Wales, Australia, that killed 96 people and remains one of the country’s worst industrial accidents.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 1902 Mount Kembla mining disaster | 1 |
| Mount Kembla mining disaster canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16955188 — 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: Mount Kembla mining disaster Context triple: [Mount Kembla, knownFor, Mount Kembla mining disaster]
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Argonaut Mine disaster
The Argonaut Mine disaster was a 1922 gold mine fire in Jackson, California, that killed 47 miners and became one of the deadliest hard-rock mining accidents in U.S. history.
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B.
Pretoria Pit disaster (1910)
The Pretoria Pit disaster (1910) was a catastrophic coal mining explosion in Lancashire, England, that killed over 300 miners and became one of Britain’s worst mining tragedies.
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C.
1953 Tangiwai disaster
The 1953 Tangiwai disaster was one of New Zealand’s worst railway tragedies, in which a passenger train plunged into the Whangaehu River after a lahar destroyed the Tangiwai rail bridge on Christmas Eve.
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D.
Ravensdale mine explosion of 1915
The Ravensdale mine explosion of 1915 was a deadly coal mine disaster in Ravensdale, Washington, that killed dozens of miners and devastated the local community.
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E.
Speculator Mine disaster
The Speculator Mine disaster was a catastrophic 1917 underground fire in Butte, Montana, that killed 168 miners and became one of the deadliest hard rock mining accidents in U.S. history.
- 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: Mount Kembla mining disaster Target entity description: The Mount Kembla mining disaster was a catastrophic 1902 coal mine explosion in New South Wales, Australia, that killed 96 people and remains one of the country’s worst industrial accidents.
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A.
Argonaut Mine disaster
The Argonaut Mine disaster was a 1922 gold mine fire in Jackson, California, that killed 47 miners and became one of the deadliest hard-rock mining accidents in U.S. history.
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B.
Pretoria Pit disaster (1910)
The Pretoria Pit disaster (1910) was a catastrophic coal mining explosion in Lancashire, England, that killed over 300 miners and became one of Britain’s worst mining tragedies.
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C.
1953 Tangiwai disaster
The 1953 Tangiwai disaster was one of New Zealand’s worst railway tragedies, in which a passenger train plunged into the Whangaehu River after a lahar destroyed the Tangiwai rail bridge on Christmas Eve.
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D.
Ravensdale mine explosion of 1915
The Ravensdale mine explosion of 1915 was a deadly coal mine disaster in Ravensdale, Washington, that killed dozens of miners and devastated the local community.
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E.
Speculator Mine disaster
The Speculator Mine disaster was a catastrophic 1917 underground fire in Butte, Montana, that killed 168 miners and became one of the deadliest hard rock mining accidents in U.S. history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mount Kembla mining disaster