Anaconda Smelter Superfund site
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The Anaconda Smelter Superfund site is a large, historically industrial area in Montana undergoing long-term environmental cleanup due to extensive contamination from past copper smelting operations.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Anaconda Smelter Superfund site canonical | 1 |
| Butte Superfund site | 1 |
| Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund site | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20531985 — 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: Anaconda Smelter Superfund site Context triple: [Anaconda, Montana, partOf, Anaconda Smelter Superfund site]
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A.
Iron King Mine and Humboldt Smelter Superfund site
The Iron King Mine and Humboldt Smelter Superfund site is a contaminated former mining and smelting complex in Dewey-Humboldt, Arizona, undergoing long-term environmental cleanup due to heavy metal and arsenic pollution.
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B.
Tar Creek Superfund site
The Tar Creek Superfund site is a heavily contaminated former lead and zinc mining area in northeastern Oklahoma, known as one of the nation’s most toxic environmental disaster zones and the focus of extensive cleanup and relocation efforts.
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C.
Quincy Smelter
Quincy Smelter is a historic copper smelting complex in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, notable as one of the most intact remnants of the region’s 19th- and early 20th-century copper mining industry.
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D.
Chino Mine complex
The Chino Mine complex is one of the largest and oldest open-pit copper mining operations in the United States, located near Santa Rita in southwestern New Mexico.
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E.
Tsumeb Smelter
Tsumeb Smelter is a major metal-processing plant in Tsumeb, Namibia, known for treating complex copper and base-metal concentrates.
- 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: Anaconda Smelter Superfund site Target entity description: The Anaconda Smelter Superfund site is a large, historically industrial area in Montana undergoing long-term environmental cleanup due to extensive contamination from past copper smelting operations.
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A.
Iron King Mine and Humboldt Smelter Superfund site
The Iron King Mine and Humboldt Smelter Superfund site is a contaminated former mining and smelting complex in Dewey-Humboldt, Arizona, undergoing long-term environmental cleanup due to heavy metal and arsenic pollution.
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B.
Tar Creek Superfund site
The Tar Creek Superfund site is a heavily contaminated former lead and zinc mining area in northeastern Oklahoma, known as one of the nation’s most toxic environmental disaster zones and the focus of extensive cleanup and relocation efforts.
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C.
Quincy Smelter
Quincy Smelter is a historic copper smelting complex in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, notable as one of the most intact remnants of the region’s 19th- and early 20th-century copper mining industry.
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D.
Chino Mine complex
The Chino Mine complex is one of the largest and oldest open-pit copper mining operations in the United States, located near Santa Rita in southwestern New Mexico.
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E.
Tsumeb Smelter
Tsumeb Smelter is a major metal-processing plant in Tsumeb, Namibia, known for treating complex copper and base-metal concentrates.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Anaconda Smelter Superfund site
linked to: Anaconda Smelter Superfund site