Blackstone
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Blackstone is a dark, volcanic stone block in Minecraft used primarily for building and crafting, often serving as an overworld-accessible alternative to cobblestone.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blackstone canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11660171 — 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: Blackstone Context triple: [Bastion Remnant, containsBlock, Blackstone]
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A.
Blackstone
Blackstone is a prominent surname most famously associated with Sir William Blackstone, the influential 18th-century English jurist and legal scholar.
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B.
Blackstone Inc.
Blackstone Inc. is a leading global alternative asset management firm specializing in private equity, real estate, credit, and hedge fund investment strategies.
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C.
Blackrock
Blackrock is a coastal suburban town in County Dublin, Ireland, known for its seafront, shopping amenities, and proximity to central Dublin.
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D.
Blackrock
Blackrock is a coastal village and popular seaside resort in County Louth, Ireland, known for its promenade and views across Dundalk Bay.
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E.
Blackrock
Blackrock is a suburban residential area of Cork city in County Cork, Ireland, known for its riverside location along the River Lee and historic maritime and industrial heritage.
- 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: Blackstone Target entity description: Blackstone is a dark, volcanic stone block in Minecraft used primarily for building and crafting, often serving as an overworld-accessible alternative to cobblestone.
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A.
Blackstone
Blackstone is a prominent surname most famously associated with Sir William Blackstone, the influential 18th-century English jurist and legal scholar.
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B.
Blackstone Inc.
Blackstone Inc. is a leading global alternative asset management firm specializing in private equity, real estate, credit, and hedge fund investment strategies.
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C.
Blackrock
Blackrock is a coastal suburban town in County Dublin, Ireland, known for its seafront, shopping amenities, and proximity to central Dublin.
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D.
Blackrock
Blackrock is a coastal village and popular seaside resort in County Louth, Ireland, known for its promenade and views across Dundalk Bay.
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E.
Blackrock
Blackrock is a suburban residential area of Cork city in County Cork, Ireland, known for its riverside location along the River Lee and historic maritime and industrial heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Minecraft block
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block ⓘ building block ⓘ stone block ⓘ volcanic stone ⓘ |
| addedInUpdate | Nether Update ⓘ |
| addedInVersion | Minecraft Java Edition 1.16 ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Minecraft ⓘ |
| blastResistance | 6 ⓘ |
| canBeCraftedInto |
blackstone slab
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blackstone stairs ⓘ blackstone wall ⓘ |
| canBeUsedAs |
cobblestone alternative
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stone tool material ⓘ |
| canBeUsedToCraft |
brewing stands
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furnaces ⓘ gilded blackstone (via generation, not crafting) ⓘ polished blackstone ⓘ polished blackstone bricks ⓘ stone buttons ⓘ stone pressure plates ⓘ stone slabs ⓘ stone stairs ⓘ stone tools ⓘ stone walls ⓘ stone weapons ⓘ |
| canReplace | netherrack (during generation) ⓘ |
| color | dark ⓘ |
| flammable | false ⓘ |
| gameModeAvailability |
Adventure
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Creative ⓘ Survival ⓘ |
| gravityAffected | false ⓘ |
| hardness | 1.5 ⓘ |
| materialType | stone ⓘ |
| maxStackSize | 64 ⓘ |
| miningRequirement | wooden pickaxe or better ⓘ |
| naturalGenerationBiome |
Basalt Deltas
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Nether Wastes ⓘ Soul Sand Valley (in structures) ⓘ |
| naturalGenerationDimension | Nether ⓘ |
| naturalGenerationForm |
blobs
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veins ⓘ |
| naturalGenerationStructure |
bastion remnants
ⓘ
ruined portals ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
building
ⓘ
crafting ⓘ |
| renewable | true ⓘ |
| soundType | stone ⓘ |
| stackable | true ⓘ |
| toolToMine | pickaxe ⓘ |
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: Blackstone Description of subject: Blackstone is a dark, volcanic stone block in Minecraft used primarily for building and crafting, often serving as an overworld-accessible alternative to cobblestone.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.