Blue John stone
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Blue John stone is a rare, banded variety of fluorite prized as a decorative gemstone, found almost exclusively in the caves near Castleton in Derbyshire, England.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blue John | 1 |
| Blue John fluorspar | 1 |
| Blue John stone canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1208559 — 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.
Target entity: Blue John stone Context triple: [Castleton, knownFor, Blue John stone]
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Kentish ragstone
Kentish ragstone is a hard, grey limestone from Kent, England, historically quarried for major building works including many medieval fortifications and churches.
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Alabaster
Alabaster is a suburban city in central Alabama, known as part of the Birmingham metropolitan area and one of the state's larger, rapidly growing communities.
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Tuckahoe marble
Tuckahoe marble is a high-quality white to gray dolomitic marble historically quarried in Westchester County, New York, widely used in prominent 19th-century American buildings and monuments.
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Fairfax Stone
Fairfax Stone is a historic boundary marker in West Virginia that denotes the traditional source of the North Branch of the Potomac River and once defined colonial land grants.
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Collyhurst sandstone
Collyhurst sandstone is a distinctive red Triassic sandstone historically quarried in Manchester, England, and widely used in local building and architectural stonework.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Blue John stone Target entity description: Blue John stone is a rare, banded variety of fluorite prized as a decorative gemstone, found almost exclusively in the caves near Castleton in Derbyshire, England.
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A.
Kentish ragstone
Kentish ragstone is a hard, grey limestone from Kent, England, historically quarried for major building works including many medieval fortifications and churches.
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B.
Alabaster
Alabaster is a suburban city in central Alabama, known as part of the Birmingham metropolitan area and one of the state's larger, rapidly growing communities.
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C.
Tuckahoe marble
Tuckahoe marble is a high-quality white to gray dolomitic marble historically quarried in Westchester County, New York, widely used in prominent 19th-century American buildings and monuments.
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D.
Fairfax Stone
Fairfax Stone is a historic boundary marker in West Virginia that denotes the traditional source of the North Branch of the Potomac River and once defined colonial land grants.
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E.
Collyhurst sandstone
Collyhurst sandstone is a distinctive red Triassic sandstone historically quarried in Manchester, England, and widely used in local building and architectural stonework.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
decorative gemstone
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fluorite variety ⓘ mineral variety ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Castleton mining heritage ⓘ |
| belongsTo | fluorite group ⓘ |
| chemicalFormula | CaF2 ⓘ |
| color |
blue
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purple ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
| composedOf | calcium fluoride ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| crystalSystem | isometric ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
local craft tradition in Derbyshire
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symbol of Castleton ⓘ |
| exhibitedAt | local museums in Derbyshire ⓘ |
| foundIn |
Blue John Cavern
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Treak Cliff Cavern ⓘ caves near Castleton ⓘ |
| geologicalAge | Carboniferous limestone host rocks ⓘ |
| hardnessOnMohsScale | 4 ⓘ |
| hasPattern |
banded
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veined ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Castleton
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Derbyshire ⓘ Peak District ⓘ |
| marketForm |
carved ornaments
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polished cabochons ⓘ tableware ⓘ |
| minedSince | 18th century ⓘ |
| mineralClass | halide mineral ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
distinctive banding
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rare occurrence ⓘ |
| rarity | rare ⓘ |
| regionOfSignificance |
Derbyshire
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Peak District ⓘ
surface form:
Peak District National Park
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| sensitivity |
sensitive to acids
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sensitive to heat ⓘ sensitive to scratching ⓘ |
| touristAttraction |
Blue John Cavern
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Treak Cliff Cavern ⓘ |
| transparency | transparent to translucent ⓘ |
| usedFor |
bowls
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inlay work ⓘ jewellery ⓘ ornamental carvings ⓘ vases ⓘ |
| value | collectible gemstone ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Blue John stone Description of subject: Blue John stone is a rare, banded variety of fluorite prized as a decorative gemstone, found almost exclusively in the caves near Castleton in Derbyshire, England.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.