San José mine
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San José mine is a historic silver and tin mine located near the city of Oruro in Bolivia, known for its long-standing role in the region’s mining industry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| San José mine canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1873410 — 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: San José mine Context triple: [Oruro, hasPart, San José mine]
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A.
Tioga Mine
Tioga Mine was a historic silver mining operation in the Sierra Nevada of California that gave its name to nearby Tioga Pass.
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B.
El Teniente mine
El Teniente mine is one of the world’s largest underground copper mines, located in central Chile and operated by the state-owned company Codelco.
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C.
Los Pelambres mine
Los Pelambres mine is a large open-pit copper and molybdenum mining operation located in the Coquimbo Region of Chile and operated by Antofagasta plc.
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D.
Chuquicamata mine
Chuquicamata mine is one of the world’s largest open-pit copper mines, located in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert and a major source of global copper production.
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E.
Consolidated Gold Mine
Consolidated Gold Mine is a historic gold mining operation, best known as a former major producer of gold and now often recognized as a heritage and tourist site illustrating early industrial mining practices.
- 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: San José mine Target entity description: San José mine is a historic silver and tin mine located near the city of Oruro in Bolivia, known for its long-standing role in the region’s mining industry.
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A.
Tioga Mine
Tioga Mine was a historic silver mining operation in the Sierra Nevada of California that gave its name to nearby Tioga Pass.
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B.
El Teniente mine
El Teniente mine is one of the world’s largest underground copper mines, located in central Chile and operated by the state-owned company Codelco.
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C.
Los Pelambres mine
Los Pelambres mine is a large open-pit copper and molybdenum mining operation located in the Coquimbo Region of Chile and operated by Antofagasta plc.
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D.
Chuquicamata mine
Chuquicamata mine is one of the world’s largest open-pit copper mines, located in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert and a major source of global copper production.
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E.
Consolidated Gold Mine
Consolidated Gold Mine is a historic gold mining operation, best known as a former major producer of gold and now often recognized as a heritage and tourist site illustrating early industrial mining practices.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mine
ⓘ
silver mine ⓘ tin mine ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country | Bolivia ⓘ |
| economicSector | extractive industry ⓘ |
| environmentalContext | high-altitude plateau ⓘ |
| hasApproximateLatitude | -17.98 ⓘ |
| hasApproximateLongitude | -67.12 ⓘ |
| hasAssociatedCity | Oruro ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfWorkOrName | Spanish ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage | Mina San José (Spanish) ⓘ |
| historic | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
long-standing role in Oruro mining industry
ⓘ
production of silver ⓘ production of tin ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Oruro Department ⓘ |
| locatedInCountryCapitalRegion | no ⓘ |
| locatedInOrNearUrbanArea | city of Oruro ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Oruro ⓘ |
| mineralType | polymetallic deposit ⓘ |
| nearGeologicalFeature |
Altiplano
ⓘ
linked to:
Altiplano plateau
Andes ⓘ |
| oreType | vein-type deposit ⓘ |
| partOfIndustry |
Andean mining sector
ⓘ
mining industry of Bolivia ⓘ |
| primaryCommodity |
silver
ⓘ
tin ⓘ |
| region | western Bolivia ⓘ |
| significance | important for regional mining economy ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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: San José mine Description of subject: San José mine is a historic silver and tin mine located near the city of Oruro in Bolivia, known for its long-standing role in the region’s mining industry.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.