Montgomery-Shoshone Mine
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Montgomery-Shoshone Mine was a prominent early-20th-century gold mine whose discovery spurred the rapid growth of the boomtown of Rhyolite, Nevada.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Montgomery-Shoshone Mine canonical | 1 |
| Montgomery-Shoshone Mining Company | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12846430 — 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: Montgomery-Shoshone Mine Context triple: [Rhyolite, Nevada, nearMine, Montgomery-Shoshone Mine]
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A.
Crow Creek Mine
Crow Creek Mine is a historic gold mining site and popular tourist attraction near Girdwood, Alaska, offering visitors a glimpse into the region’s gold rush past and opportunities for recreational gold panning.
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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.
McDermitt Mine
McDermitt Mine is a mineral extraction site near the town of McDermitt, known for its significant deposits of lithium and other valuable resources.
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E.
Copper Falls Mine
Copper Falls Mine is a historic copper mining site on Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula that was part of the region’s 19th-century copper boom.
- 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: Montgomery-Shoshone Mine Target entity description: Montgomery-Shoshone Mine was a prominent early-20th-century gold mine whose discovery spurred the rapid growth of the boomtown of Rhyolite, Nevada.
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A.
Crow Creek Mine
Crow Creek Mine is a historic gold mining site and popular tourist attraction near Girdwood, Alaska, offering visitors a glimpse into the region’s gold rush past and opportunities for recreational gold panning.
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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.
McDermitt Mine
McDermitt Mine is a mineral extraction site near the town of McDermitt, known for its significant deposits of lithium and other valuable resources.
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E.
Copper Falls Mine
Copper Falls Mine is a historic copper mining site on Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula that was part of the region’s 19th-century copper boom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
gold mine
ⓘ
historic site ⓘ |
| associatedSettlement | Rhyolite, Nevada ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Rhyolite ghost town ⓘ |
| boomtownEra | early 1900s ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
economic growth of Rhyolite
ⓘ
population boom in Rhyolite ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| currentUse | heritage tourism site vicinity ⓘ |
| declineReason |
falling gold prices
ⓘ
falling ore grades ⓘ |
| developmentStatus | abandoned ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | E. L. Montgomery ⓘ |
| discoveryYear | 1904 ⓘ |
| era | Progressive Era mining boom ⓘ |
| geologicSetting | Bullfrog mining district ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationStatus | within area interpreted as historic mining landscape ⓘ |
| industry | hard-rock mining ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Bullfrog mining district gold rush
ⓘ
linked to:
Bullfrog gold rush
|
| infrastructure |
mill facilities
ⓘ
underground workings ⓘ |
| legacy | key catalyst for creation of Rhyolite ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Amargosa Desert region
ⓘ
linked to:
Amargosa Desert
Bullfrog Hills ⓘ Nevada ⓘ Nye County, Nevada ⓘ
linked to:
Nye County
Rhyolite, Nevada ⓘ |
| miningMethod | underground stoping ⓘ |
| near |
Death Valley National Park
ⓘ
linked to:
Death Valley National Park (partial)
|
| notableFor | high-grade gold ore in early years ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Montgomery-Shoshone Mining Company
ⓘ
linked to:
Montgomery-Shoshone Mine
|
| oreType | gold-bearing quartz veins ⓘ |
| ownershipChange | acquired by Charles M. Schwab interests ⓘ |
| partOf | Bullfrog mining district ⓘ |
| peakActivityPeriod | circa 1905–1908 ⓘ |
| primaryCommodity | gold ⓘ |
| region |
American West mining frontier
ⓘ
linked to:
American West mining districts
|
| secondaryCommodity | silver ⓘ |
| significance |
discovery spurred rapid growth of Rhyolite boomtown
ⓘ
major early-20th-century gold producer in Nevada ⓘ |
| status | historic mining property ⓘ |
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: Montgomery-Shoshone Mine Description of subject: Montgomery-Shoshone Mine was a prominent early-20th-century gold mine whose discovery spurred the rapid growth of the boomtown of Rhyolite, Nevada.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Montgomery-Shoshone Mine