Topaz
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Topaz is a silicate mineral gemstone prized for its clarity and range of colors, commonly used in jewelry and often linked to themes of strength and protection.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6594562 — 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: Topaz Context triple: [Scorpio, associatedStone, Topaz]
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A.
Topaze
Topaze is a celebrated French play by Marcel Pagnol that satirizes corruption and moral compromise through the story of an idealistic schoolteacher drawn into the world of politics and business.
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Sapphire
Sapphire is an American author best known for her novel "Push," which was adapted into the acclaimed film "Precious."
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Sapphire
Sapphire is a precious gemstone variety of the mineral corundum, typically blue, valued for its hardness, brilliance, and use in fine jewelry and industrial applications.
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Sapphire
Sapphire is a 1959 British crime drama film that explores racial tensions and prejudice in London through the investigation of a young woman's murder.
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E.
Beryl
Beryl is a given name that can be used for people of any gender, historically more common as a female name in English-speaking countries.
- 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: Topaz Target entity description: Topaz is a silicate mineral gemstone prized for its clarity and range of colors, commonly used in jewelry and often linked to themes of strength and protection.
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A.
Topaze
Topaze is a celebrated French play by Marcel Pagnol that satirizes corruption and moral compromise through the story of an idealistic schoolteacher drawn into the world of politics and business.
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B.
Sapphire
Sapphire is an American author best known for her novel "Push," which was adapted into the acclaimed film "Precious."
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C.
Sapphire
Sapphire is a 1959 British crime drama film that explores racial tensions and prejudice in London through the investigation of a young woman's murder.
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D.
Sapphire
Sapphire is a precious gemstone variety of the mineral corundum, typically blue, valued for its hardness, brilliance, and use in fine jewelry and industrial applications.
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E.
Beryl
Beryl is a given name that can be used for people of any gender, historically more common as a female name in English-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
gemstone
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nesosilicate ⓘ silicate mineral ⓘ |
| associatedRockType |
granite
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rhyolite ⓘ |
| birefringence | 0.008–0.010 ⓘ |
| birthstoneFor | November ⓘ |
| chemicalFormula | Al2SiO4(F,OH)2 ⓘ |
| cleavage | perfect basal cleavage ⓘ |
| color |
blue
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brown ⓘ colorless ⓘ green ⓘ multicolored ⓘ orange ⓘ pink ⓘ red ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
| commonTradeName |
blue topaz
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imperial topaz ⓘ mystic topaz ⓘ |
| containsElement |
aluminium
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fluorine ⓘ hydrogen ⓘ oxygen ⓘ silicon ⓘ |
| crystalHabit |
columnar crystals
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prismatic crystals ⓘ |
| crystalSystem | orthorhombic ⓘ |
| etymologyAlternativeOrigin | Sanskrit tapas ⓘ |
| etymologyLanguage | Greek ⓘ |
| etymologyRoot | topazos ⓘ |
| fracture | subconchoidal ⓘ |
| hardnessMohs | 8 ⓘ |
| luster | vitreous ⓘ |
| majorProducerCountry |
Brazil
NERFINISHED
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Nigeria NERFINISHED ⓘ Pakistan NERFINISHED ⓘ Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occurrenceEnvironment |
alluvial deposits
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greisens ⓘ high-temperature quartz veins ⓘ pegmatites ⓘ |
| opticalCharacter | biaxial positive ⓘ |
| refractiveIndex | 1.609–1.643 ⓘ |
| specificGravity | 3.4–3.6 ⓘ |
| streak | colorless ⓘ |
| traditionalAssociation |
healing
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protection ⓘ strength ⓘ |
| transparency | transparent to translucent ⓘ |
| treatment |
heat treatment
ⓘ
irradiation ⓘ |
| usedFor |
gemstone carvings
ⓘ
jewelry ⓘ |
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: Topaz Description of subject: Topaz is a silicate mineral gemstone prized for its clarity and range of colors, commonly used in jewelry and often linked to themes of strength and protection.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
topaz