Silvermines area
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The Silvermines area is a rural district in County Tipperary, Ireland, historically known for its extensive lead and silver mining activities.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Silvermines area canonical | 1 |
| Silvermines region | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6603752 — 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: Silvermines area Context triple: [County Tipperary, containsVillage, Silvermines area]
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A.
Stilligarry area
The Stilligarry area is a locality on South Uist in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, known as a starting point for walks and access to the nearby hill Beinn Mhòr.
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B.
Steep Ravine area
The Steep Ravine area is a scenic coastal canyon on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais in California, known for its redwood groves, waterfalls, rustic cabins, and oceanfront hiking trails.
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C.
Finlayson area
The Finlayson area is a historic industrial district in central Tampere, Finland, known for its former cotton mill complex now converted into cultural, commercial, and office spaces.
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D.
Afandale area
Afandale area is a residential neighbourhood located in or near Cimla in Neath, South Wales.
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E.
Minas Basin
Minas Basin is a large tidal bay in Nova Scotia, Canada, renowned for having some of the highest tides in the world and for its historical significance in Acadian history.
- 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: Silvermines area Target entity description: The Silvermines area is a rural district in County Tipperary, Ireland, historically known for its extensive lead and silver mining activities.
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A.
Stilligarry area
The Stilligarry area is a locality on South Uist in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, known as a starting point for walks and access to the nearby hill Beinn Mhòr.
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B.
Steep Ravine area
The Steep Ravine area is a scenic coastal canyon on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais in California, known for its redwood groves, waterfalls, rustic cabins, and oceanfront hiking trails.
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C.
Finlayson area
The Finlayson area is a historic industrial district in central Tampere, Finland, known for its former cotton mill complex now converted into cultural, commercial, and office spaces.
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D.
Afandale area
Afandale area is a residential neighbourhood located in or near Cimla in Neath, South Wales.
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E.
Minas Basin
Minas Basin is a large tidal bay in Nova Scotia, Canada, renowned for having some of the highest tides in the world and for its historical significance in Acadian history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographic area
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rural district ⓘ |
| climate | temperate oceanic climate ⓘ |
| contains |
abandoned mine workings
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mine spoil heaps ⓘ tailings ponds ⓘ |
| country | Ireland ⓘ |
| currentEconomy |
agriculture-dominated
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commuter residential area ⓘ |
| economicHistory | mining-based local economy ⓘ |
| environmentalIssue |
metal contamination
ⓘ
soil contamination ⓘ water pollution risk ⓘ |
| governedBy | Tipperary County Council ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
adits
ⓘ
mine shafts ⓘ spoil tips ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
forestry
ⓘ
pastoral farming ⓘ rural housing ⓘ |
| hasSettlement | Silvermines village ⓘ |
| heritageType | industrial heritage site ⓘ |
| historicalActivity |
extensive mining operations
ⓘ
smelting of lead ore ⓘ |
| historicalLanguage | Irish ⓘ |
| historicalPeriodOfIntenseMining |
19th century
ⓘ
20th century ⓘ |
| knownFor |
base metal mining
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lead mining ⓘ silver mining ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
County Tipperary
ⓘ
Munster ⓘ |
| mineralResource |
lead
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silver ⓘ zinc ⓘ |
| miningStatus | former major mining district ⓘ |
| near |
Keeper Hill
ⓘ
Nenagh ⓘ Silvermines Mountains ⓘ
linked to:
Silvermine Mountains
|
| oreType |
galena
ⓘ
silver-bearing lead ore ⓘ |
| partOf | Silvermines parish ⓘ |
| regionType | upland foothills ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Irish government environmental studies
ⓘ
environmental remediation projects ⓘ |
| transportAccess | local roads from Nenagh ⓘ |
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: Silvermines area Description of subject: The Silvermines area is a rural district in County Tipperary, Ireland, historically known for its extensive lead and silver mining activities.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Silvermines area