Lochaline silica sand mine
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Lochaline silica sand mine is a high-purity silica sand extraction site in the Scottish Highlands, known for supplying quality sand for glassmaking and industrial uses.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lochaline silica sand mine canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5446686 — 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: Lochaline silica sand mine Context triple: [Lochaline, hasNearbyFacility, Lochaline silica sand mine]
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A.
Mount Whaleback mine
Mount Whaleback mine is one of the world’s largest open-cut iron ore mines, located in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.
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B.
Gove bauxite mine
The Gove bauxite mine is a major bauxite mining operation in Australia's Northern Territory that has historically supplied ore to the nearby Gove alumina refinery and contributed significantly to the region’s economy.
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C.
Winspit quarry
Winspit quarry is a disused coastal stone quarry on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England, known for its dramatic cliffs, caves, and use as a filming location.
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D.
Panguna mine
Panguna mine is a large, now-closed open-cut copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea that was once among the world’s biggest and played a central role in the Bougainville conflict.
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E.
Santa Bárbara mine
Santa Bárbara mine is a historic mercury mine near Huancavelica in Peru, once one of the most important sources of mercury for Spanish colonial silver mining.
- 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: Lochaline silica sand mine Target entity description: Lochaline silica sand mine is a high-purity silica sand extraction site in the Scottish Highlands, known for supplying quality sand for glassmaking and industrial uses.
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A.
Mount Whaleback mine
Mount Whaleback mine is one of the world’s largest open-cut iron ore mines, located in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.
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B.
Gove bauxite mine
The Gove bauxite mine is a major bauxite mining operation in Australia's Northern Territory that has historically supplied ore to the nearby Gove alumina refinery and contributed significantly to the region’s economy.
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C.
Winspit quarry
Winspit quarry is a disused coastal stone quarry on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England, known for its dramatic cliffs, caves, and use as a filming location.
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D.
Panguna mine
Panguna mine is a large, now-closed open-cut copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea that was once among the world’s biggest and played a central role in the Bougainville conflict.
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E.
Santa Bárbara mine
Santa Bárbara mine is a historic mercury mine near Huancavelica in Peru, once one of the most important sources of mercury for Spanish colonial silver mining.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
industrial site
ⓘ
silica sand mine ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| extractionMethod | underground mining ⓘ |
| geologicalAge | Cretaceous period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geologicalFormation | Cretaceous sandstone ⓘ |
| hasEconomicRole |
export of industrial minerals
ⓘ
local employment ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentalConsideration |
coastal location
ⓘ
marine transport impacts ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
loading jetty
ⓘ
processing plant ⓘ underground workings ⓘ |
| industry |
glass industry supply chain
ⓘ
mining industry ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Highland council area
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Lochaline NERFINISHED ⓘ Morvern peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ Scotland ⓘ Scottish Highlands ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Sound of Mull
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
village of Lochaline ⓘ |
| locatedOn | west coast of Scotland ⓘ |
| materialExtracted |
high-purity silica sand
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quartz sand ⓘ |
| notableFor |
high chemical purity of sand
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low iron content of sand ⓘ production of glass-grade silica sand ⓘ |
| partOf | UK industrial minerals sector ⓘ |
| primaryUseOfOutput |
glassmaking
ⓘ
industrial uses ⓘ |
| product | silica sand ⓘ |
| productSpecification |
glass-grade silica
ⓘ
low-iron silica sand ⓘ |
| region | Lochaber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sandColor | white ⓘ |
| sandProperty |
high silica content
ⓘ
low impurity levels ⓘ |
| transportRoute |
road haulage
ⓘ
sea freight via Sound of Mull ⓘ |
| usedForProduct |
container glass
ⓘ
flat glass ⓘ specialist glass ⓘ |
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: Lochaline silica sand mine Description of subject: Lochaline silica sand mine is a high-purity silica sand extraction site in the Scottish Highlands, known for supplying quality sand for glassmaking and industrial uses.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.