Cortez Gold Mine
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Cortez Gold Mine is a major gold-producing mining complex in north-central Nevada and one of the largest and longest-operating gold mines in the United States.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cortez Gold Mine canonical | 1 |
| Cortez Hills deposit | 1 |
| Cortez Hills mine | 1 |
| Cortez Mine complex | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7178625 — 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: Cortez Gold Mine Context triple: [Crescent Valley, Nevada, hasNearbyMine, Cortez Gold Mine]
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A.
Geita Gold Mine
Geita Gold Mine is one of Tanzania’s largest open-pit gold mines, operated by AngloGold Ashanti and located near the town of Geita in the country’s northwest.
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B.
Dolores Mine
Dolores Mine is a historic silver mine in Mineral del Monte, Mexico, now preserved as a cultural and tourist site showcasing the region’s mining heritage.
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C.
San José mine
San José mine is a historic silver and tin mine located near the city of Oruro in Bolivia, known for its long-standing role in the region’s mining industry.
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D.
Reed Gold Mine
Reed Gold Mine is a historic site in North Carolina recognized as the location of the first documented gold discovery in the United States and the nation’s first major gold mining operation.
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E.
Crisson Gold Mine
Crisson Gold Mine is a historic gold mining site and tourist attraction in Dahlonega, Georgia, where visitors can tour old mining equipment and pan for gold.
- 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: Cortez Gold Mine Target entity description: Cortez Gold Mine is a major gold-producing mining complex in north-central Nevada and one of the largest and longest-operating gold mines in the United States.
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A.
Geita Gold Mine
Geita Gold Mine is one of Tanzania’s largest open-pit gold mines, operated by AngloGold Ashanti and located near the town of Geita in the country’s northwest.
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B.
Dolores Mine
Dolores Mine is a historic silver mine in Mineral del Monte, Mexico, now preserved as a cultural and tourist site showcasing the region’s mining heritage.
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C.
San José mine
San José mine is a historic silver and tin mine located near the city of Oruro in Bolivia, known for its long-standing role in the region’s mining industry.
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D.
Reed Gold Mine
Reed Gold Mine is a historic site in North Carolina recognized as the location of the first documented gold discovery in the United States and the nation’s first major gold mining operation.
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E.
Crisson Gold Mine
Crisson Gold Mine is a historic gold mining site and tourist attraction in Dahlonega, Georgia, where visitors can tour old mining equipment and pan for gold.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
gold mine
ⓘ
mining complex ⓘ |
| commodityType | precious metals ⓘ |
| containsDeposit |
Cortez Hills deposit
ⓘ
linked to:
Cortez Gold Mine
Fourmile deposit ⓘ Goldrush deposit ⓘ Pipeline deposit ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| employerInRegion | north-central Nevada mining workforce ⓘ |
| environmentalRegulationJurisdiction |
State of Nevada
ⓘ
linked to:
Nevada
U.S. federal government ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
|
| geologicalProvince | Great Basin ⓘ |
| geologicalSetting | Carlin-type gold deposit ⓘ |
| hasExplorationActivity | ongoing exploration for additional gold resources ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
Cortez Hills underground mine
ⓘ
linked to:
Horse Canyon mine
Pipeline open pit ⓘ mill and processing facilities ⓘ |
| industry | gold mining industry ⓘ |
| jointVentureName | Nevada Gold Mines joint venture ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Nevada ⓘ |
| locatedInCounty |
Eureka County, Nevada
ⓘ
Lander County, Nevada ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | north-central Nevada ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Battle Mountain-Eureka mineral trend
ⓘ
linked to:
Battle Mountain mining district
|
| locatedOn | Cortez Trend ⓘ |
| miningMethod |
open-pit mining
ⓘ
underground mining ⓘ |
| modernOpenPitMiningStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| near | Crescent Valley, Nevada ⓘ |
| operator | Nevada Gold Mines ⓘ |
| oreType |
oxide gold ore
ⓘ
refractory gold ore ⓘ |
| owner |
Barrick Gold
ⓘ
linked to:
Barrick Gold Corporation
Newmont Corporation ⓘ
linked to:
Newmont Mining
|
| ownershipStructure | joint venture ⓘ |
| partOf | Cortez mining district ⓘ |
| processingMethod |
carbon-in-column
ⓘ
carbon-in-leach ⓘ heap leaching ⓘ |
| product |
gold
ⓘ
silver ⓘ |
| significance |
major gold-producing complex in Nevada
ⓘ
one of the largest gold mines in the United States ⓘ one of the longest-operating gold mines in the United States ⓘ |
| startOfOperation | 1860s ⓘ |
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: Cortez Gold Mine Description of subject: Cortez Gold Mine is a major gold-producing mining complex in north-central Nevada and one of the largest and longest-operating gold mines in the United States.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cortez Gold Mine
linked to: Cortez Gold Mine
linked to: Cortez Gold Mine