Los Pelambres mine
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Los Pelambres mine is a large open-pit copper and molybdenum mining operation located in the Coquimbo Region of Chile and operated by Antofagasta plc.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Los Pelambres mine canonical | 2 |
| Los Pelambres copper deposit | 1 |
| Minera Los Pelambres | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1752942 — 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: Los Pelambres mine Context triple: [Los Pelambres area, hasMine, Los Pelambres mine]
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A.
El Teniente mine
El Teniente mine is one of the world’s largest underground copper mines, located in central Chile and operated by the state-owned company Codelco.
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B.
Chuquicamata mine
Chuquicamata mine is one of the world’s largest open-pit copper mines, located in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert and a major source of global copper production.
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C.
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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D.
Panguna mine
Panguna mine is a large, now-closed open-cut copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea that was once among the world’s biggest and played a central role in the Bougainville conflict.
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E.
Kimberley Mine
Kimberley Mine is a famous South African open-pit diamond mine renowned as one of the earliest and largest diamond discoveries in the world.
- 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: Los Pelambres mine Target entity description: Los Pelambres mine is a large open-pit copper and molybdenum mining operation located in the Coquimbo Region of Chile and operated by Antofagasta plc.
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A.
El Teniente mine
El Teniente mine is one of the world’s largest underground copper mines, located in central Chile and operated by the state-owned company Codelco.
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B.
Chuquicamata mine
Chuquicamata mine is one of the world’s largest open-pit copper mines, located in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert and a major source of global copper production.
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C.
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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D.
Panguna mine
Panguna mine is a large, now-closed open-cut copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea that was once among the world’s biggest and played a central role in the Bougainville conflict.
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E.
Kimberley Mine
Kimberley Mine is a famous South African open-pit diamond mine renowned as one of the earliest and largest diamond discoveries in the world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
copper mine
ⓘ
molybdenum mine ⓘ open-pit mine ⓘ |
| byProduct |
gold
ⓘ
silver ⓘ |
| commodity |
copper
ⓘ
molybdenum ⓘ |
| concentrateTransportTo | Port of Los Vilos ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country | Chile ⓘ |
| discoveryYear | 1913 ⓘ |
| distanceToCoast | approximately 200 km ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 3600 m above sea level ⓘ |
| environmentalIssue |
tailings management concerns
ⓘ
water use in semi-arid region ⓘ |
| expansionProjectStatus | under development in the 2020s ⓘ |
| geologicalSetting | Andean porphyry copper belt ⓘ |
| hasExpansionProject | Los Pelambres Expansion Project ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
concentrate pipeline
ⓘ
concentrator plant ⓘ tailings storage facility ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructure |
access roads
ⓘ
pipeline to port ⓘ power supply lines ⓘ |
| isMajorCopperProducer | true ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Chile ⓘ |
| languageOfLocalArea | Spanish ⓘ |
| listedOn |
London Stock Exchange
ⓘ
surface form:
London Stock Exchange (via Antofagasta plc)
|
| locatedIn |
Andes
ⓘ
surface form:
Andes Mountains
Coquimbo Region ⓘ |
| miningMethod | open-pit mining ⓘ |
| nearSettlement |
Illapel, Chile
ⓘ
Salamanca, Coquimbo Region, Chile ⓘ
surface form:
Salamanca, Chile
|
| operator | Antofagasta plc ⓘ |
| oreReserveType | proven and probable reserves ⓘ |
| oreType | porphyry copper deposit ⓘ |
| owner | Antofagasta plc ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Antofagasta plc ⓘ |
| processingCapacityType | concentrator throughput ⓘ |
| processingMethod | flotation ⓘ |
| product |
copper concentrate
ⓘ
gold (by-product) ⓘ molybdenum concentrate ⓘ silver (by-product) ⓘ |
| region | Coquimbo Region ⓘ |
| regulatoryAuthority | Chilean environmental and mining authorities ⓘ |
| startOfOperation | 2000 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Los Pelambres mine Description of subject: Los Pelambres mine is a large open-pit copper and molybdenum mining operation located in the Coquimbo Region of Chile and operated by Antofagasta plc.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Los Pelambres mine
this entity surface form:
Minera Los Pelambres
this entity surface form:
Los Pelambres copper deposit