Hollinger Mine
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Hollinger Mine was one of the largest and most productive gold mines in Canada, central to the development of Timmins, Ontario and the Porcupine mining district.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hollinger Mine canonical | 5 |
| McIntyre Mine | 2 |
| Hollinger–McIntyre–Dome group of mines | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9994289 — 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: Hollinger Mine Context triple: [Porcupine Gold Rush, notableMine, Hollinger Mine]
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A.
Tilly Foster Mine
Tilly Foster Mine is a historic iron ore mine in Putnam County, New York, noted for its rich mineral deposits and role in the region’s 19th-century mining industry.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Champion Mine
Champion Mine is a historic iron ore mine in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that gave its name to the nearby community of Champion.
- 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: Hollinger Mine Target entity description: Hollinger Mine was one of the largest and most productive gold mines in Canada, central to the development of Timmins, Ontario and the Porcupine mining district.
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A.
Tilly Foster Mine
Tilly Foster Mine is a historic iron ore mine in Putnam County, New York, noted for its rich mineral deposits and role in the region’s 19th-century mining industry.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Champion Mine
Champion Mine is a historic iron ore mine in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that gave its name to the nearby community of Champion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | gold mine ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
McMartin brothers
ⓘ
Porcupine gold rush of 1909 ⓘ
linked to:
Porcupine Gold Rush
Timmins family ⓘ |
| city | Timmins ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| discoverer | Benny Hollinger ⓘ |
| discoveryYear | 1909 ⓘ |
| endOfOperation | 1968 ⓘ |
| environmentalIssue | mine subsidence in Timmins ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Duncan McMartin
ⓘ
Henry Timmins ⓘ John McMartin ⓘ Noah Timmins ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLocation | near downtown Timmins ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | early 20th century Canadian mining boom ⓘ |
| impact |
helped establish Porcupine district as major gold-producing area
ⓘ
stimulated establishment of Timmins as a permanent town ⓘ |
| industry | mining industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legacy |
major contributor to Timmins economic growth
ⓘ
one of the largest gold producers in Canadian history ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Porcupine mining district
ⓘ
Timmins, Ontario ⓘ
linked to:
Timmins, Ontario, Canada
|
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Ontario ⓘ |
| miningMethod | underground mining ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Benny Hollinger ⓘ |
| oneOf |
Big Three mines of the Porcupine camp
ⓘ
linked to:
Porcupine gold mines
Hollinger–McIntyre–Dome group of mines ⓘ
linked to:
Hollinger Mine
|
| operator | Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines Limited ⓘ |
| oreBodyType | lode gold deposit ⓘ |
| owner | Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines Limited ⓘ |
| partOf |
Canadian Shield mining operations
ⓘ
Porcupine gold rush ⓘ
linked to:
Porcupine Gold Rush
Porcupine mining camp ⓘ |
| peakProductionPeriod |
1920s
ⓘ
1930s ⓘ |
| product | gold ⓘ |
| region | Northern Ontario ⓘ |
| significantFor |
development of Timmins, Ontario
ⓘ
development of the Porcupine mining district ⓘ |
| startOfOperation |
1910
ⓘ
1911 ⓘ |
| status | closed ⓘ |
| subsequentUse | reclamation and open pit project site ⓘ |
| transportInfrastructure | served by Ontario Northland Railway ⓘ |
| workforce | attracted miners from across Canada and abroad ⓘ |
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: Hollinger Mine Description of subject: Hollinger Mine was one of the largest and most productive gold mines in Canada, central to the development of Timmins, Ontario and the Porcupine mining district.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Hollinger Mine
linked to: Hollinger Mine
linked to: Hollinger Mine