Mir mine
E537431
Mir mine is a massive former open-pit diamond mine in Mirny, Siberia, notable as one of the world’s largest man-made excavations and a key site in the Soviet Union’s diamond industry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mir mine canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5646150 — 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: Mir mine Context triple: [Mirny, knownFor, Mir mine]
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A.
Mina
Mina is a coastal city and port in northern Lebanon known for its maritime activities and proximity to Tripoli.
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Mina
Mina is a Gbe language of the Niger-Congo family spoken primarily in southern Togo and neighboring regions of West Africa.
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C.
Mina
Mina is a valley and neighborhood near Mecca in Saudi Arabia that serves as a major site for key Hajj rituals, including the symbolic stoning of the devil.
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D.
My Michael
"My Michael" is a renowned novel by Israeli author Amos Oz that explores a troubled marriage and personal disillusionment in 1950s Jerusalem.
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E.
Be Mine
"Be Mine" is a song featured on the album "What Comes Naturally."
- 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: Mir mine Target entity description: Mir mine is a massive former open-pit diamond mine in Mirny, Siberia, notable as one of the world’s largest man-made excavations and a key site in the Soviet Union’s diamond industry.
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A.
Mina
Mina is a coastal city and port in northern Lebanon known for its maritime activities and proximity to Tripoli.
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B.
Mina
Mina is a Gbe language of the Niger-Congo family spoken primarily in southern Togo and neighboring regions of West Africa.
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C.
Mina
Mina is a valley and neighborhood near Mecca in Saudi Arabia that serves as a major site for key Hajj rituals, including the symbolic stoning of the devil.
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D.
My Michael
"My Michael" is a renowned novel by Israeli author Amos Oz that explores a troubled marriage and personal disillusionment in 1950s Jerusalem.
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E.
Be Mine
"Be Mine" is a song featured on the album "What Comes Naturally."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former mine
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open-pit diamond mine ⓘ |
| annualProductionPeak | millions of carats of diamonds ⓘ |
| cityServed | Mirny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Russia ⓘ |
| countryDuringSovietEra | Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| currentUse | industrial site with restricted access ⓘ |
| depth | approximately 525 metres ⓘ |
| developedBy |
Soviet Union
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yakutalmaz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diameter | approximately 1.2 kilometres ⓘ |
| discovered | 1955 ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | Soviet geologists ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 340 metres above sea level ⓘ |
| endOfOpenPitOperation | 2001 ⓘ |
| endOfUndergroundOperation | 2017 ⓘ |
| geologicalSetting | kimberlite pipe ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Mirny Mine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mirny diamond mine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLatitude | 62.530 ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLongitude | 113.990 ⓘ |
| hasMiningMethod |
open-pit mining
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underground mining ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Russian ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Mirny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Sakha Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInFederalDistrict | Far Eastern Federal District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Siberia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Yakutsk Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Mirny Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Asia ⓘ |
| mineralOutput | kimberlite-hosted diamonds ⓘ |
| nearbySettlement | Mirny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the largest open-pit diamond mines
ⓘ
being one of the world’s largest man-made excavations ⓘ role in the Soviet diamond industry ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Alrosa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Alrosa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Russian diamond industry
ⓘ
Soviet diamond industry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| product | diamonds ⓘ |
| risk | aerodynamic hazard to low-flying aircraft ⓘ |
| RussianName | Карьер «Мир» NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shape | circular open pit ⓘ |
| startOfConstruction | 1957 ⓘ |
| startOfOperation | 1957 ⓘ |
| status | closed for mining ⓘ |
| transitionedToUndergroundMining | 2000s ⓘ |
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: Mir mine Description of subject: Mir mine is a massive former open-pit diamond mine in Mirny, Siberia, notable as one of the world’s largest man-made excavations and a key site in the Soviet Union’s diamond industry.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.