Yilgarn Craton
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The Yilgarn Craton is an ancient, mineral-rich geological core of Western Australia renowned for hosting some of the world’s largest gold and nickel deposits.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yilgarn Craton canonical | 9 |
| Kalgoorlie Terrane | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11454369 — 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: Yilgarn Craton Context triple: [Super Pit, geologicalProvince, Yilgarn Craton]
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A.
Kaapvaal Craton
The Kaapvaal Craton is one of Earth’s oldest and most stable pieces of continental crust, located in southern Africa and renowned for hosting some of the world’s richest gold deposits.
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B.
Pilbara Craton
Pilbara Craton is one of Earth’s oldest and best-preserved pieces of continental crust in Western Australia, renowned for its ancient Archean rocks and early evidence of life.
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C.
Rae craton
Rae craton is an ancient, stable block of Earth’s continental crust that forms a major geological core of the Canadian Shield within the North American craton.
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D.
Vaalbara supercraton
Vaalbara supercraton is a proposed early Archean supercontinent thought to have formed from some of Earth’s oldest cratons, including the Kaapvaal and Pilbara cratons.
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E.
Nain craton
The Nain craton is an ancient, stable block of Earth’s continental crust in northeastern Canada, composed largely of Archean rocks and forming part of the geological core of North America.
- 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: Yilgarn Craton Target entity description: The Yilgarn Craton is an ancient, mineral-rich geological core of Western Australia renowned for hosting some of the world’s largest gold and nickel deposits.
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A.
Kaapvaal Craton
The Kaapvaal Craton is one of Earth’s oldest and most stable pieces of continental crust, located in southern Africa and renowned for hosting some of the world’s richest gold deposits.
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B.
Pilbara Craton
Pilbara Craton is one of Earth’s oldest and best-preserved pieces of continental crust in Western Australia, renowned for its ancient Archean rocks and early evidence of life.
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C.
Rae craton
Rae craton is an ancient, stable block of Earth’s continental crust that forms a major geological core of the Canadian Shield within the North American craton.
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D.
Vaalbara supercraton
Vaalbara supercraton is a proposed early Archean supercontinent thought to have formed from some of Earth’s oldest cratons, including the Kaapvaal and Pilbara cratons.
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E.
Nain craton
The Nain craton is an ancient, stable block of Earth’s continental crust in northeastern Canada, composed largely of Archean rocks and forming part of the geological core of North America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Archean craton
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craton ⓘ geological province ⓘ |
| areaApproximate | >1,000,000 square kilometres ⓘ |
| boundedBy |
Albany–Fraser Orogen to the south
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Officer Basin to the east ⓘ Perth Basin to the west ⓘ |
| compositionIncludes |
gneiss
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granite-greenstone terranes ⓘ granitoid rocks ⓘ |
| contains |
Eastern Goldfields Province
ⓘ
linked to:
Goldfields-Esperance region
Kalgoorlie Terrane ⓘ
linked to:
Yilgarn Craton
Kurnalpi Terrane ⓘ Murchison Province ⓘ Southern Cross Province ⓘ Southwest Province ⓘ Youanmi Terrane ⓘ greenstone belts ⓘ |
| continent | Australia ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| economicImportance |
major contributor to Australian mineral production
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major mining region of Western Australia ⓘ |
| extendsTo |
central Western Australia
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eastern Western Australia ⓘ southwestern Western Australia ⓘ |
| formationProcess | accretion of Archean terranes ⓘ |
| geologicalAge | Archean Eon ⓘ |
| hosts |
banded iron formations
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komatiite-associated nickel sulfide deposits ⓘ orogenic gold deposits ⓘ pegmatite-hosted lithium deposits ⓘ significant komatiite-hosted nickel sulfide deposits ⓘ some of the world’s largest Archean gold deposits ⓘ |
| knownFor |
base metal deposits
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gold deposits ⓘ iron ore deposits ⓘ lithium deposits ⓘ nickel deposits ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Western Australia ⓘ |
| miningDistrictIncludes |
Kalgoorlie goldfields
ⓘ
linked to:
Kalgoorlie
Kambalda nickel district ⓘ Leonora–Laverton gold district ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Goldfields gold mining district
Southern Cross goldfield ⓘ |
| oldestRocksAge | >=2.7 billion years ⓘ |
| overlainBy | younger sedimentary basins at margins ⓘ |
| partOf |
Australian Shield
ⓘ
Australian continent ⓘ |
| researchImportance |
key area for studying Archean crustal evolution
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type area for komatiite-hosted nickel deposits ⓘ |
| tectonicSetting | stable continental crust ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Yilgarn Craton Description of subject: The Yilgarn Craton is an ancient, mineral-rich geological core of Western Australia renowned for hosting some of the world’s largest gold and nickel deposits.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Yilgarn Craton