Mines Act 1842
E409819
The Mines Act 1842 was a landmark British law that prohibited women and young children from working underground in coal mines, reflecting growing social and labor reform efforts in the 19th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mines and Collieries Act 1842 | 2 |
| Mines Act 1842 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4053296 — 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: Mines Act 1842 Context triple: [British reform movement, influenced, Mines Act 1842]
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A.
Mine Act
The Mine Act is a U.S. federal law that governs mine safety and health standards, empowering the Mine Safety and Health Administration to regulate and enforce protections for miners.
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B.
Coal Mines (Minimum Wage) Act 1912
The Coal Mines (Minimum Wage) Act 1912 was a landmark British law that first established a statutory minimum wage for coal miners following widespread industrial unrest and strikes.
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C.
Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977
The Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 is a U.S. law that established comprehensive regulations and enforcement mechanisms to protect the safety and health of miners in the nation’s mining industry.
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D.
Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946
The Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946 was a landmark UK law that transferred ownership and control of the coal industry from private companies to the state, creating the National Coal Board as part of the post-war Labour government’s wider nationalisation programme.
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E.
Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969
The Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 is a landmark U.S. law that significantly strengthened safety standards and health protections for coal miners, including measures to prevent and address black lung disease.
- 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: Mines Act 1842 Target entity description: The Mines Act 1842 was a landmark British law that prohibited women and young children from working underground in coal mines, reflecting growing social and labor reform efforts in the 19th century.
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A.
Mine Act
The Mine Act is a U.S. federal law that governs mine safety and health standards, empowering the Mine Safety and Health Administration to regulate and enforce protections for miners.
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B.
Coal Mines (Minimum Wage) Act 1912
The Coal Mines (Minimum Wage) Act 1912 was a landmark British law that first established a statutory minimum wage for coal miners following widespread industrial unrest and strikes.
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C.
Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977
The Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 is a U.S. law that established comprehensive regulations and enforcement mechanisms to protect the safety and health of miners in the nation’s mining industry.
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D.
Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946
The Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946 was a landmark UK law that transferred ownership and control of the coal industry from private companies to the state, creating the National Coal Board as part of the post-war Labour government’s wider nationalisation programme.
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E.
Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969
The Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 is a landmark U.S. law that significantly strengthened safety standards and health protections for coal miners, including measures to prevent and address black lung disease.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom
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labour law ⓘ mining regulation ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
improve working conditions in mines
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protect health and morality of women and children in mining ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
coal mines
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iron mines ⓘ other mines in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| belongsTo | British labour law history ⓘ |
| century | 19th century ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| enforcedIn | coal mining regions of Britain ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
labour regulation
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occupational safety and health ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Coal Mines Regulation Act 1860
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Coal Mines Regulation Act 1872 ⓘ |
| hasEffect |
marked early state intervention in industrial labour conditions
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removed women from underground coal mining work in Britain ⓘ restricted child labour in underground mines ⓘ |
| hasLegalForm | statute ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Industrial Revolution in Britain
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linked to:
Industrial Revolution
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| implementedBy | mine inspectors and local magistrates ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Children’s Employment Commission 1842 ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Parliament of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| legalStatus | superseded by later mining legislation ⓘ |
| location | Great Britain ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
child labour regulation
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labour protection ⓘ mine safety ⓘ women’s employment in mining ⓘ |
| motivatedBy |
public concern over working conditions in mines
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reports of exploitation of women and children in mines ⓘ social reform movement in Victorian Britain ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being an early milestone in child labour reform in Britain
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being one of the first laws to ban women from underground industrial work ⓘ |
| partOf | Victorian social reforms ⓘ |
| prohibits |
employment of boys under ten years old underground in mines
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employment of girls underground in mines ⓘ employment of women underground in mines ⓘ |
| regulates |
age limits for underground mine workers
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employment practices in mines ⓘ gender restrictions for underground mine workers ⓘ |
| royalAssentDate | 1842 ⓘ |
| sector | mining industry ⓘ |
| typeOfRestriction | employment restriction ⓘ |
| yearEnacted | 1842 ⓘ |
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: Mines Act 1842 Description of subject: The Mines Act 1842 was a landmark British law that prohibited women and young children from working underground in coal mines, reflecting growing social and labor reform efforts in the 19th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Lord Ashley (Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury)
linked to: Mines Act 1842
linked to: Mines Act 1842