Bingham Canyon Mine
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Bingham Canyon Mine is a massive open-pit copper mine in Utah, USA, renowned as one of the largest man-made excavations in the world.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bingham Canyon Mine canonical | 5 |
| Bingham Canyon | 2 |
| Bingham Canyon open-pit mine | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9920161 — 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: Bingham Canyon Mine Context triple: [Copperton, developedAround, Bingham Canyon Mine]
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A.
United Verde Mine
The United Verde Mine was a major copper mining operation in Jerome, Arizona, that drove the town’s rapid growth and economic boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
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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C.
Capps Mine
Capps Mine is a historically significant gold mine in North Carolina known for its role in the state’s early gold-mining industry.
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D.
North Star Mine
North Star Mine is a historic gold mine and landmark in Grass Valley, California, that played a significant role in the region’s 19th- and early 20th-century mining industry.
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E.
Premier Mine
Premier Mine, now known as the Cullinan Diamond Mine in South Africa, is a historically significant diamond mine famed for producing some of the largest and most important gem-quality diamonds in the world.
- 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: Bingham Canyon Mine Target entity description: Bingham Canyon Mine is a massive open-pit copper mine in Utah, USA, renowned as one of the largest man-made excavations in the world.
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A.
United Verde Mine
The United Verde Mine was a major copper mining operation in Jerome, Arizona, that drove the town’s rapid growth and economic boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
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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C.
Capps Mine
Capps Mine is a historically significant gold mine in North Carolina known for its role in the state’s early gold-mining industry.
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D.
North Star Mine
North Star Mine is a historic gold mine and landmark in Grass Valley, California, that played a significant role in the region’s 19th- and early 20th-century mining industry.
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E.
Premier Mine
Premier Mine, now known as the Cullinan Diamond Mine in South Africa, is a historically significant diamond mine famed for producing some of the largest and most important gem-quality diamonds in the world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
copper mine
ⓘ
man-made excavation ⓘ open-pit mine ⓘ |
| annualProduction | hundreds of thousands of tons of copper ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| depth |
over 1200 meters
ⓘ
over 3900 feet ⓘ |
| diameter |
about 2.5 miles
ⓘ
about 4 kilometers ⓘ |
| discovered | 1848 ⓘ |
| employerInRegion | thousands of workers historically ⓘ |
| environmentalIssue |
groundwater contamination concerns
ⓘ
waste rock and tailings management ⓘ |
| hasMiningMethod | open-pit mining ⓘ |
| hasPitShape | stepped benches ⓘ |
| hasProcessingFacility |
concentrator
ⓘ
refinery ⓘ smelter ⓘ |
| hasVisitorCenter | Bingham Canyon Mine Visitor Center ⓘ |
| hasWasteRockVolume | billions of tons of waste rock removed ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | National Historic Landmark (district) components nearby ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being one of the largest man-made excavations in the world
ⓘ
large-scale open-pit copper mining ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Oquirrh Mountains
ⓘ
Utah ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Salt Lake County ⓘ |
| locatedInValley |
Bingham Canyon
ⓘ
linked to:
Bingham Canyon Mine
|
| namedAfter |
Erastus Bingham
ⓘ
Thomas Bingham ⓘ
linked to:
Thomas Henry Bingham
|
| near | Salt Lake City ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Kennecott Utah Copper
ⓘ
linked to:
Kennecott Copper Corporation
|
| operator |
Rio Tinto Kennecott
ⓘ
linked to:
Rio Tinto Copper
|
| oreType | porphyry copper deposit ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Rio Tinto Group
ⓘ
linked to:
Rio Tinto
|
| partOf |
Kennecott Copper operations
ⓘ
linked to:
Kennecott Copper Corporation
Oquirrh Mountain mining district ⓘ |
| previouslyServedBy | rail haulage systems ⓘ |
| product |
copper
ⓘ
gold ⓘ molybdenum ⓘ silver ⓘ sulfuric acid ⓘ |
| significantEvent | 2013 landslide ⓘ |
| significantEventDate | April 10, 2013 ⓘ |
| significantEventType | massive slope failure ⓘ |
| startOfMiningActivity | 1863 ⓘ |
| startOfOpenPitOperations | 1906 ⓘ |
| transportSystem | truck-and-shovel haulage ⓘ |
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: Bingham Canyon Mine Description of subject: Bingham Canyon Mine is a massive open-pit copper mine in Utah, USA, renowned as one of the largest man-made excavations in the world.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bingham Canyon Mine
linked to: Bingham Canyon Mine