Matchless Mine
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Matchless Mine is a historic silver mine in Leadville, Colorado, famed for its role in the rise and fall of silver magnate Horace Tabor and his wife "Baby Doe."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matchless Mine canonical | 7 |
| Matchless mine | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2388204 — 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: Matchless Mine Context triple: [Horace Tabor, owned, Matchless Mine]
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A.
Minas de Matahambre
Minas de Matahambre is a Cuban town historically known for its copper mining activities, located in Pinar del Río Province.
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B.
Dry Diggings
Dry Diggings was the early Gold Rush–era mining camp that later became the city of Placerville, California.
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C.
Mackenna's Gold
Mackenna's Gold is a 1969 American Western adventure film about a legendary cache of Apache gold, starring Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif.
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D.
The Glitter and the Gold
The Glitter and the Gold is the memoir of American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt, recounting her life as a Gilded Age socialite and Duchess of Marlborough.
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E.
This Nearly Was Mine
"This Nearly Was Mine" is a poignant romantic ballad from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical *South Pacific*, known for its expressive melody and themes of lost love.
- 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: Matchless Mine Target entity description: Matchless Mine is a historic silver mine in Leadville, Colorado, famed for its role in the rise and fall of silver magnate Horace Tabor and his wife "Baby Doe."
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A.
Minas de Matahambre
Minas de Matahambre is a Cuban town historically known for its copper mining activities, located in Pinar del Río Province.
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B.
Dry Diggings
Dry Diggings was the early Gold Rush–era mining camp that later became the city of Placerville, California.
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C.
Mackenna's Gold
Mackenna's Gold is a 1969 American Western adventure film about a legendary cache of Apache gold, starring Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif.
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D.
The Glitter and the Gold
The Glitter and the Gold is the memoir of American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt, recounting her life as a Gilded Age socialite and Duchess of Marlborough.
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E.
This Nearly Was Mine
"This Nearly Was Mine" is a poignant romantic ballad from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical *South Pacific*, known for its expressive melody and themes of lost love.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic site
ⓘ
silver mine ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Tabor fortune
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collapse of silver prices in 1893 ⓘ |
| category |
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado
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Mines in Colorado ⓘ National Historic Landmarks in Colorado ⓘ |
| city | Leadville, Colorado ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county | Lake County, Colorado ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
subject of local legends about Baby Doe Tabor
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symbol of boom-and-bust mining era in Colorado ⓘ |
| elevation | high-altitude Rocky Mountains site ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Baby Doe cabin
ⓘ
headframe ⓘ outbuildings ⓘ shaft house ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
National Historic Landmark
ⓘ
National Register of Historic Places listing ⓘ
linked to:
National Register of Historic Places
|
| historicalEvent |
Colorado Silver Boom
ⓘ
linked to:
Colorado silver boom
|
| inception | 1870s ⓘ |
| industry | mining industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
association with Elizabeth "Baby Doe" Tabor
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association with silver magnate Horace Tabor ⓘ role in the Colorado Silver Boom ⓘ role in the rise and fall of Horace Tabor ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Colorado
ⓘ
Lake County, Colorado ⓘ Leadville, Colorado ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| managedBy | Leadville Heritage Coalition ⓘ |
| mineral | silver ⓘ |
| nearestCity | Leadville, Colorado ⓘ |
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| operator | Horace Tabor ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Horace Tabor ⓘ |
| partOf | Leadville mining district ⓘ |
| peakProductionPeriod | 1880s ⓘ |
| preservationStatus | preserved as historic site ⓘ |
| product | silver ore ⓘ |
| significantPerson |
Elizabeth "Baby Doe" Tabor
ⓘ
Horace Tabor ⓘ |
| startDate | 1870s ⓘ |
| state | Colorado ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| tourism | heritage tourism destination ⓘ |
| touristAttraction |
guided mine tours
ⓘ
preserved mining structures ⓘ |
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: Matchless Mine Description of subject: Matchless Mine is a historic silver mine in Leadville, Colorado, famed for its role in the rise and fall of silver magnate Horace Tabor and his wife "Baby Doe."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Ballad of Baby Doe (opera)
linked to: Matchless Mine
subject linked to:
Elizabeth