Cobar
E443364
Cobar is a historic mining town in western New South Wales, Australia, known for its copper and gold production and outback heritage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cobar canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3660379 — 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: Cobar Context triple: [Central West (New South Wales), hasTown, Cobar]
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A.
Cootamundra
Cootamundra is a regional town in New South Wales, Australia, known for its agricultural industry and as the birthplace of cricket legend Sir Donald Bradman.
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B.
Cowra
Cowra is a regional town in central-west New South Wales, Australia, known for its agricultural industry and the historic World War II Cowra breakout.
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C.
Deniliquin
Deniliquin is a rural town in southern New South Wales, Australia, known for its agricultural industry and annual ute muster festival.
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D.
Mount Isa
Mount Isa is a remote mining city in northwestern Queensland, Australia, known for one of the world’s largest underground zinc, lead, and silver mines.
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E.
Walcha
Walcha is a rural town in New South Wales, Australia, known for its pastoral farming, cool climate, and location on the Northern Tablelands near the Great Dividing Range.
- 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: Cobar Target entity description: Cobar is a historic mining town in western New South Wales, Australia, known for its copper and gold production and outback heritage.
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A.
Cootamundra
Cootamundra is a regional town in New South Wales, Australia, known for its agricultural industry and as the birthplace of cricket legend Sir Donald Bradman.
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B.
Cowra
Cowra is a regional town in central-west New South Wales, Australia, known for its agricultural industry and the historic World War II Cowra breakout.
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C.
Deniliquin
Deniliquin is a rural town in southern New South Wales, Australia, known for its agricultural industry and annual ute muster festival.
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D.
Mount Isa
Mount Isa is a remote mining city in northwestern Queensland, Australia, known for one of the world’s largest underground zinc, lead, and silver mines.
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E.
Walcha
Walcha is a rural town in New South Wales, Australia, known for its pastoral farming, cool climate, and location on the Northern Tablelands near the Great Dividing Range.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mining town
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| averageAnnualRainfall | approximately 390 mm ⓘ |
| averageMaximumTemperature | approximately 25 °C ⓘ |
| averageMinimumTemperature | approximately 11 °C ⓘ |
| climate | semi-arid ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| distanceTo |
approximately 260 km northwest of Nyngan
ⓘ
approximately 457 km west-northwest of Dubbo ⓘ approximately 712 km northwest of Sydney ⓘ |
| electoralDistrictState | Barwon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| electoralDivisionFederal | Parkes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| establishedAsMiningTown | 1870s ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
Cobar Airport
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cobar District Hospital NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHeritage |
historic mining infrastructure
ⓘ
outback architecture ⓘ |
| hasHeritageSite | Great Cobar Heritage Centre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
mining
ⓘ
pastoralism ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Cobar Miners Memorial
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cobar Open Cut Lookout NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMine |
CSA Mine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elura Mine NERFINISHED ⓘ Endeavor Mine NERFINISHED ⓘ Peak Gold Mines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSchool |
Cobar High School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cobar Public School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
copper mining
ⓘ
gold mining ⓘ outback heritage ⓘ |
| localGovernmentArea | Cobar Shire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| localNewspaper | The Cobar Weekly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Orana region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnHighway | Barrier Highway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorCommodity |
copper
ⓘ
gold ⓘ lead ⓘ zinc ⓘ |
| postcode | 2835 ⓘ |
| region | western New South Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | New South Wales ⓘ |
| timezone | AEST ⓘ |
| timezoneDST | AEDT ⓘ |
| traditionalOwners |
Ngiyampaa people
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wangaaypuwan people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +10:00 ⓘ |
| utcOffsetDST | +11:00 ⓘ |
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: Cobar Description of subject: Cobar is a historic mining town in western New South Wales, Australia, known for its copper and gold production and outback heritage.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.