Fresnillo
E158734
Fresnillo is a major mining city in the Mexican state of Zacatecas, known especially for its large silver deposits and production.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fresnillo canonical | 2 |
| Fresnillo de González Echeverría | 1 |
| Fresnillo mining district | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1377190 — 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: Fresnillo Context triple: [Zacatecas, hasMajorCity, Fresnillo]
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A.
San Carlos
San Carlos is a city in San Mateo County, California, located on the San Francisco Peninsula between Belmont and Redwood City.
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B.
San Carlos
San Carlos is a Nicaraguan town that serves as a key river and lake port near the southeastern end of Lake Nicaragua.
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C.
San Carlos
San Carlos is a Chilean city known as an agricultural and commercial center in the Ñuble Region.
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D.
Guanajuato
Guanajuato is a central Mexican state known for its colonial architecture, rich mining history, and vibrant cultural festivals, including the famous Cervantino Festival.
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E.
Chalco
Chalco is a municipality in the State of Mexico, part of the Mexico City metropolitan area, known historically as a pre-Hispanic settlement near Lake Chalco.
- 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: Fresnillo Target entity description: Fresnillo is a major mining city in the Mexican state of Zacatecas, known especially for its large silver deposits and production.
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A.
San Carlos
San Carlos is a city in San Mateo County, California, located on the San Francisco Peninsula between Belmont and Redwood City.
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B.
San Carlos
San Carlos is a Nicaraguan town that serves as a key river and lake port near the southeastern end of Lake Nicaragua.
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C.
San Carlos
San Carlos is a Chilean city known as an agricultural and commercial center in the Ñuble Region.
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D.
Guanajuato
Guanajuato is a central Mexican state known for its colonial architecture, rich mining history, and vibrant cultural festivals, including the famous Cervantino Festival.
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E.
Chalco
Chalco is a municipality in the State of Mexico, part of the Mexico City metropolitan area, known historically as a pre-Hispanic settlement near Lake Chalco.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| administrativeDivisionType | municipality ⓘ |
| climate | semi-arid climate ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| demographicsCharacteristic | urban population concentrated in municipal seat ⓘ |
| distanceTo | about 60 kilometers northwest of Zacatecas City ⓘ |
| economicSector | mining industry ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | about 2200 meters ⓘ |
| governedBy | municipal president ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 493 ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
commerce related to mining
ⓘ
services sector ⓘ small-scale agriculture in surrounding areas ⓘ |
| hasEconomicRole | important mining center of Mexico ⓘ |
| hasMiningActivity |
gold
ⓘ
lead ⓘ silver ⓘ zinc ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage |
Fresnillo
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Fresnillo de González Echeverría
|
| hasNearbySanctuary |
Plateros
ⓘ
Santuario de Plateros ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguageStatus | Spanish at municipal level ⓘ |
| hasPostalCodeRange | 99000–99999 ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding | Parroquia de la Purificación ⓘ |
| hasResourceType |
base metals
ⓘ
precious metals ⓘ |
| hasTransport | highway connections to Zacatecas City ⓘ |
| isMunicipalSeatOf | Municipality of Fresnillo ⓘ |
| isRegionalCenterFor |
metal processing
ⓘ
mining services ⓘ |
| knownFor |
large silver deposits
ⓘ
silver mining ⓘ silver production ⓘ |
| language | Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
North-Central Mexico
ⓘ
Zacatecas ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| majorCompanyAssociated | Fresnillo plc ⓘ |
| majorIndustry | mining ⓘ |
| partOf | State of Zacatecas ⓘ |
| religionMajority | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| roadConnection | Federal Highway 45 ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | Zacatecas State administrative divisions ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Standard Time
|
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
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: Fresnillo Description of subject: Fresnillo is a major mining city in the Mexican state of Zacatecas, known especially for its large silver deposits and production.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Fresnillo mining district
this entity surface form:
Fresnillo de González Echeverría