Platinum
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Platinum is a precious, silvery-white transition metal renowned for its rarity, corrosion resistance, and extensive use in jewelry, catalytic converters, and industrial applications.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Platinum canonical | 12 |
| platinum (metal) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3563448 — 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: Platinum Context triple: [Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss, hasPart, Platinum]
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A.
Platinum
Platinum is a metallic silver color commonly used by Nintendo and other electronics manufacturers for sleek, premium-looking hardware variants.
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B.
Golden
"Golden" is a soulful R&B song by Jill Scott that celebrates personal freedom, self-love, and empowerment.
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C.
Premier Platinum
Premier Platinum is a high-level elite status tier in United Airlines' MileagePlus frequent flyer program, offering enhanced benefits such as bonus miles, complimentary upgrades, and priority services.
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D.
BPI Platinum
BPI Platinum is a British Phonographic Industry sales certification awarded to music recordings that achieve a high threshold of units sold in the UK.
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E.
Double Platinum
Double Platinum is a 1999 television drama film starring Brandy Norwood and Diana Ross that centers on the strained relationship between a rising young singer and her estranged superstar mother.
- 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: Platinum Target entity description: Platinum is a precious, silvery-white transition metal renowned for its rarity, corrosion resistance, and extensive use in jewelry, catalytic converters, and industrial applications.
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A.
Platinum
Platinum is a metallic silver color commonly used by Nintendo and other electronics manufacturers for sleek, premium-looking hardware variants.
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B.
Golden
"Golden" is a soulful R&B song by Jill Scott that celebrates personal freedom, self-love, and empowerment.
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C.
Premier Platinum
Premier Platinum is a high-level elite status tier in United Airlines' MileagePlus frequent flyer program, offering enhanced benefits such as bonus miles, complimentary upgrades, and priority services.
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D.
BPI Platinum
BPI Platinum is a British Phonographic Industry sales certification awarded to music recordings that achieve a high threshold of units sold in the UK.
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E.
Double Platinum
Double Platinum is a 1999 television drama film starring Brandy Norwood and Diana Ross that centers on the strained relationship between a rising young singer and her estranged superstar mother.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (77)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
chemical element
ⓘ
precious metal ⓘ transition metal ⓘ |
| appearance | silvery-white ⓘ |
| atomicNumber | 78 ⓘ |
| belongsTo | periodicTable ⓘ |
| belongsToSeries |
noble metals
ⓘ
platinum group metals ⓘ |
| block | d-block ⓘ |
| boilingPoint | 3825 °C ⓘ |
| CASNumber | 7440-06-4 ⓘ |
| chemicalSymbol | Pt ⓘ |
| corrosionResistance | very high ⓘ |
| crystalStructure | face-centered cubic ⓘ |
| densityAtRoomTemperature | 21.45 g/cm³ ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | pre-Columbian South Americans ⓘ |
| discoveryCentury | 18th century ⓘ |
| dissolvesIn | aqua regia ⓘ |
| economicCategory | strategic metal ⓘ |
| electricalResistivity | 10.6 nΩ·m at 20 °C ⓘ |
| electronegativityPauling | 2.28 ⓘ |
| environmentalConcern | exhaust emissions control ⓘ |
| group | 10 ⓘ |
| introducedToEuropeBy | Antonio de Ulloa ⓘ |
| isDuctile | true ⓘ |
| isMalleable | true ⓘ |
| isMoreExpensiveThan | gold (often, by mass) ⓘ |
| isotopes |
190Pt
ⓘ
192Pt ⓘ 194Pt ⓘ 195Pt ⓘ 196Pt ⓘ 198Pt ⓘ |
| isParamagnetic | true ⓘ |
| isRarerThan |
gold
ⓘ
silver ⓘ |
| isResistantTo |
corrosion
ⓘ
most acids ⓘ oxidation ⓘ |
| isStableIsotopeCount | 6 ⓘ |
| locatedInPeriodicTableRegion | d-block transition metals ⓘ |
| majorProducerCountry |
Canada
ⓘ
Russia ⓘ South Africa ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Zimbabwe ⓘ |
| majorUse |
catalytic converters
ⓘ
chemical industry catalysts ⓘ dental alloys ⓘ electrical contacts ⓘ fuel cell catalysts ⓘ jewelry ⓘ laboratory equipment ⓘ petroleum refining catalysts ⓘ thermocouples ⓘ |
| meltingPoint | 1768.3 °C ⓘ |
| MohsHardness | 3.5 ⓘ |
| mostAbundantIsotope | 195Pt ⓘ |
| nameOrigin | Spanish word "platina" meaning "little silver" ⓘ |
| occursIn |
alluvial deposits
ⓘ
copper ores ⓘ nickel ores ⓘ |
| oxidationStates |
+2
ⓘ
+4 ⓘ +6 ⓘ 0 ⓘ |
| period | 6 ⓘ |
| radioactiveIsotope | 190Pt ⓘ |
| roleInCatalyticConverters |
oxidation of carbon monoxide
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oxidation of unburned hydrocarbons ⓘ reduction of nitrogen oxides ⓘ |
| standardAtomicWeight | 195.084 ⓘ |
| thermalConductivity | 71.6 W/(m·K) ⓘ |
| tradedAs | commodity ⓘ |
| usedIn |
carboplatin anticancer drug
ⓘ
cisplatin anticancer drug ⓘ oxaliplatin anticancer drug ⓘ |
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: Platinum Description of subject: Platinum is a precious, silvery-white transition metal renowned for its rarity, corrosion resistance, and extensive use in jewelry, catalytic converters, and industrial applications.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Platinum (color)
this entity surface form:
platinum (metal)