Fresnillo plc
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Fresnillo plc is a Mexico-based precious metals mining company and one of the world’s largest primary silver producers, with significant gold operations as well.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fresnillo plc canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6878640 — 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 plc Context triple: [Fresnillo, majorCompanyAssociated, Fresnillo plc]
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A.
Antofagasta plc
Antofagasta plc is a major Chilean-based mining company primarily focused on copper production, with operations and projects in Chile and other countries.
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B.
Rio Tinto
Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and metals company headquartered in the United Kingdom and Australia, known for producing iron ore, aluminum, copper, and other minerals.
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C.
Codelco
Codelco is Chile’s state-owned copper mining company and one of the world’s largest producers of copper.
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D.
Anglo American plc
Anglo American plc is a major multinational mining company headquartered in London, known for producing commodities such as diamonds, copper, platinum, and iron ore.
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E.
Glencore
Glencore is a multinational commodity trading and mining company that operates extensive resource extraction and processing assets worldwide.
- 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 plc Target entity description: Fresnillo plc is a Mexico-based precious metals mining company and one of the world’s largest primary silver producers, with significant gold operations as well.
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A.
Antofagasta plc
Antofagasta plc is a major Chilean-based mining company primarily focused on copper production, with operations and projects in Chile and other countries.
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B.
Rio Tinto
Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and metals company headquartered in the United Kingdom and Australia, known for producing iron ore, aluminum, copper, and other minerals.
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C.
Codelco
Codelco is Chile’s state-owned copper mining company and one of the world’s largest producers of copper.
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D.
Anglo American plc
Anglo American plc is a major multinational mining company headquartered in London, known for producing commodities such as diamonds, copper, platinum, and iron ore.
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E.
Glencore
Glencore is a multinational commodity trading and mining company that operates extensive resource extraction and processing assets worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mining company
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precious metals producer ⓘ public company ⓘ |
| coreBusiness |
development of mining projects
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exploration of precious metal deposits ⓘ extraction of precious metals ⓘ processing of mineral ores ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| currency | USD ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Industrias Peñoles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMine |
Ciénega mine
NERFINISHED
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Fresnillo mine ⓘ Herradura mine NERFINISHED ⓘ Noche Buena mine NERFINISHED ⓘ San Julián mine NERFINISHED ⓘ Saucito mine NERFINISHED ⓘ Soledad-Dipolos mine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Minera Fresnillo
NERFINISHED
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Minera Juanicipio NERFINISHED ⓘ Minera Penmont NERFINISHED ⓘ Minera Saucito NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Mexico City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 2008 ⓘ |
| industry |
mining
ⓘ
precious metals ⓘ |
| legalForm | public limited company ⓘ |
| listedInIndex | FTSE 100 Index NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorShareholder | Industrias Peñoles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| metalFocus |
by-product lead
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by-product zinc ⓘ gold ⓘ silver ⓘ |
| notableFor |
gold mining operations
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primary silver production ⓘ |
| operatesInCountry | Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Industrias Peñoles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| product |
gold
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lead ⓘ silver ⓘ zinc ⓘ |
| rank | one of the world’s largest primary silver producers ⓘ |
| regionServed | global metals market ⓘ |
| stockExchange |
Bolsa Mexicana de Valores
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
London Stock Exchange NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| strategicFocus |
increasing silver and gold production
ⓘ
organic growth through exploration ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | FRES NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | https://www.fresnilloplc.com/ ⓘ |
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 plc Description of subject: Fresnillo plc is a Mexico-based precious metals mining company and one of the world’s largest primary silver producers, with significant gold operations as well.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.