Silver
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Silver is a lustrous, highly conductive precious metal widely used in jewelry, industry, and currency throughout history.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Silver canonical | 31 |
| American silver | 1 |
| Platinum | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T140273 — 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: Silver Context triple: [Nevada, stateMineral, Silver]
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A.
Gold
Gold was the codename for one of the five Allied landing beaches used by British forces during the D-Day invasion of Normandy in World War II.
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B.
Sterling
Sterling is a suburban community in Loudoun County, Northern Virginia, known for its residential neighborhoods, proximity to Washington Dulles International Airport, and role as part of the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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C.
Silver Meteor
The Silver Meteor is a long-distance Amtrak passenger train that runs along the U.S. East Coast, connecting New York City and Miami.
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D.
Gold Certificate
A Gold Certificate was a form of U.S. paper currency once redeemable in gold coin and used primarily in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Eagle (10-dollar gold coin)
The Eagle was a U.S. ten-dollar gold coin, first minted in the late 18th century, that became a principal high-denomination piece in American gold currency until its discontinuation in the 20th century.
- 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: Silver Target entity description: Silver is a lustrous, highly conductive precious metal widely used in jewelry, industry, and currency throughout history.
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A.
Gold
Gold was the codename for one of the five Allied landing beaches used by British forces during the D-Day invasion of Normandy in World War II.
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B.
Sterling
Sterling is a suburban community in Loudoun County, Northern Virginia, known for its residential neighborhoods, proximity to Washington Dulles International Airport, and role as part of the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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C.
Silver Meteor
The Silver Meteor is a long-distance Amtrak passenger train that runs along the U.S. East Coast, connecting New York City and Miami.
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D.
Gold Certificate
A Gold Certificate was a form of U.S. paper currency once redeemable in gold coin and used primarily in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Eagle (10-dollar gold coin)
The Eagle was a U.S. ten-dollar gold coin, first minted in the late 18th century, that became a principal high-denomination piece in American gold currency until its discontinuation in the 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
chemical element
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coinage metal ⓘ precious metal ⓘ transition metal ⓘ |
| appearance |
lustrous
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silvery-white ⓘ |
| atomicNumber | 47 ⓘ |
| block | d-block ⓘ |
| boilingPoint | 2162 °C ⓘ |
| CASNumber | 7440-22-4 ⓘ |
| chemicalSymbol | Ag ⓘ |
| crystalStructure | face-centered cubic ⓘ |
| culturalUse |
currency throughout history
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ornamental art ⓘ |
| densityAtRoomTemperature | 10.49 g/cm³ ⓘ |
| discovery | antiquity ⓘ |
| economicCategory | precious metal commodity ⓘ |
| electricalConductivity | highest of all metals ⓘ |
| electricalConductivityRank | 1 ⓘ |
| electronConfiguration | [Kr] 4d10 5s1 ⓘ |
| etymology | from Old English "seolfor" ⓘ |
| group | 11 ⓘ |
| hardnessMohs | 2.5–3 ⓘ |
| healthEffect | can cause argyria in excessive exposure ⓘ |
| isotopes |
Ag-107
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Ag-109 ⓘ |
| meltingPoint | 961.78 °C ⓘ |
| mostAbundantIsotope | Ag-107 ⓘ |
| nameOrigin | Latin "argentum" for symbol Ag ⓘ |
| naturalOccurrence |
in ores such as argentite
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native metal ⓘ |
| oxidationStates |
+1
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+2 ⓘ |
| period | 5 ⓘ |
| reflectivity | very high ⓘ |
| standardAtomicWeight | 107.8682 ⓘ |
| standardState | solid at 25 °C ⓘ |
| thermalConductivity | highest of all metals ⓘ |
| thermalConductivityRank | 1 ⓘ |
| thermalExpansionCoefficient | 18.9 µm/(m·K) ⓘ |
| thermalNeutronCaptureCrossSection | high compared to many metals ⓘ |
| uses |
antibacterial applications
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bullion ⓘ catalysts ⓘ coins ⓘ electrical contacts ⓘ jewelry ⓘ mirrors ⓘ photography ⓘ silverware ⓘ solar panels ⓘ |
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: Silver Description of subject: Silver is a lustrous, highly conductive precious metal widely used in jewelry, industry, and currency throughout history.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Silver
linked to: Silver
subject linked to:
hit single "Moi... Lolita"
subject linked to:
Philip Silver
subject linked to:
"Be My Lover"
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