Gold Fields Limited
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Gold Fields Limited is a major South African-based global gold mining company with operations and projects across several continents.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gold Fields Limited canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7662966 — 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: Gold Fields Limited Context triple: [Mamphela Ramphele, boardMemberOf, Gold Fields Limited]
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A.
Barrick Gold Corporation
Barrick Gold Corporation is one of the world’s largest gold mining companies, operating major mines and projects across multiple continents.
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B.
De Beers
De Beers is a multinational corporation that historically dominated the global diamond industry through extensive mining operations, marketing, and control of diamond supply.
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C.
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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D.
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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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: Gold Fields Limited Target entity description: Gold Fields Limited is a major South African-based global gold mining company with operations and projects across several continents.
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A.
Barrick Gold Corporation
Barrick Gold Corporation is one of the world’s largest gold mining companies, operating major mines and projects across multiple continents.
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B.
De Beers
De Beers is a multinational corporation that historically dominated the global diamond industry through extensive mining operations, marketing, and control of diamond supply.
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C.
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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D.
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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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 |
gold mining company
ⓘ
public company ⓘ |
| alsoProduces |
copper
ⓘ
silver ⓘ |
| businessModel |
development
ⓘ
exploration ⓘ mine closure ⓘ production ⓘ |
| continentOfOperation |
Africa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ North America NERFINISHED ⓘ South America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coreProduct | gold ⓘ |
| country | South Africa ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
community development
ⓘ
environmental stewardship ⓘ sustainable mining ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Cecil Rhodes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charles Rudd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMajorMine |
Agnew mine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cerro Corona mine NERFINISHED ⓘ Damang mine NERFINISHED ⓘ Granny Smith mine NERFINISHED ⓘ South Deep mine NERFINISHED ⓘ St Ives mine NERFINISHED ⓘ Tarkwa mine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOperationInCountry |
Australia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ghana NERFINISHED ⓘ Peru NERFINISHED ⓘ South Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProjectInCountry |
Canada
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiaryType | operating mining subsidiaries ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.goldfields.com/ ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Johannesburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersRegion | Gauteng NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1887 ⓘ |
| industry |
gold mining
ⓘ
precious metals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | public limited company ⓘ |
| listedOn | FTSE4Good Index (historical/ESG-related inclusion) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | World Gold Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the world’s largest gold mining companies ⓘ |
| stockExchangeListing |
Johannesburg Stock Exchange
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol |
JSE:GFI
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NYSE:GFI NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Gold Fields Limited Description of subject: Gold Fields Limited is a major South African-based global gold mining company with operations and projects across several continents.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.