Samarco
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Samarco is a Brazilian mining company best known for operating iron ore facilities in Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo and for its involvement in the 2015 Mariana dam disaster.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samarco canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14495672 — 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: Samarco Context triple: [Doce River, associatedWithCompany, Samarco]
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A.
Minas-Rio
Minas-Rio is a large-scale iron ore mining and pipeline project in Brazil known for supplying high-grade ore to global markets.
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B.
Tembec
Tembec is a Canadian forest products company known for producing lumber, pulp, and paper from operations across Canada and France.
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C.
Rio Tinto
Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and metals company headquartered in the United Kingdom and Australia, known for producing iron ore, aluminum, copper, and other minerals.
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D.
Mmakau Mining
Mmakau Mining is a South African mining company known for its black female leadership and involvement in various mineral resource projects across the country.
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E.
Ok Tedi Mine
Ok Tedi Mine is a large open-pit copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea, widely known for its significant environmental impacts on the surrounding river systems and communities.
- 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: Samarco Target entity description: Samarco is a Brazilian mining company best known for operating iron ore facilities in Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo and for its involvement in the 2015 Mariana dam disaster.
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A.
Minas-Rio
Minas-Rio is a large-scale iron ore mining and pipeline project in Brazil known for supplying high-grade ore to global markets.
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B.
Tembec
Tembec is a Canadian forest products company known for producing lumber, pulp, and paper from operations across Canada and France.
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C.
Rio Tinto
Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and metals company headquartered in the United Kingdom and Australia, known for producing iron ore, aluminum, copper, and other minerals.
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D.
Mmakau Mining
Mmakau Mining is a South African mining company known for its black female leadership and involvement in various mineral resource projects across the country.
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E.
Ok Tedi Mine
Ok Tedi Mine is a large open-pit copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea, widely known for its significant environmental impacts on the surrounding river systems and communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.