Salt
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Salt is a mineral primarily composed of sodium chloride, widely used as a seasoning, preservative, and essential nutrient in human and animal diets.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Salt canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9937175 — 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: Salt Context triple: [Salt, title, Salt]
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A.
Salt
Salt is the stage name of Cheryl James, an American rapper best known as one-third of the pioneering hip hop group Salt-N-Pepa.
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B.
Salt
Salt is a 2010 action thriller film starring Angelina Jolie as a CIA officer accused of being a Russian spy.
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C.
Salt
"Salt" is a 1962 poetry collection by Nobel Prize–winning Polish poet Wisława Szymborska, known for its reflective, ironic, and philosophically rich explorations of everyday life and history.
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D.
Salt
Salt is an open-source configuration management and remote execution tool used to automate and manage large-scale IT infrastructure.
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E.
Salty
Salty is the official mascot of the San Diego Seals professional lacrosse team, typically depicted as a playful, energetic seal that entertains fans at games and events.
- 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: Salt Target entity description: Salt is a mineral primarily composed of sodium chloride, widely used as a seasoning, preservative, and essential nutrient in human and animal diets.
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A.
Salt
Salt is a 2010 action thriller film starring Angelina Jolie as a CIA officer accused of being a Russian spy.
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B.
Salt
Salt is the stage name of Cheryl James, an American rapper best known as one-third of the pioneering hip hop group Salt-N-Pepa.
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C.
Salt
"Salt" is a 1962 poetry collection by Nobel Prize–winning Polish poet Wisława Szymborska, known for its reflective, ironic, and philosophically rich explorations of everyday life and history.
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D.
Salt
Salt is an open-source configuration management and remote execution tool used to automate and manage large-scale IT infrastructure.
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E.
Salty
Salty is the official mascot of the San Diego Seals professional lacrosse team, typically depicted as a playful, energetic seal that entertains fans at games and events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
chemicalSubstance
ⓘ
foodSeasoning ⓘ mineral ⓘ |
| affects | bloodPressure ⓘ |
| belongsToClass | ionicCompounds ⓘ |
| chemicalFormula | NaCl ⓘ |
| containsNutrient | sodium ⓘ |
| deficiencyAssociatedWith | hyponatremia ⓘ |
| excessIntakeAssociatedWith | hypertension ⓘ |
| hasBoilingPoint | 1413 °C ⓘ |
| hasCASNumber | 7647-14-5 ⓘ |
| hasColor |
colorless
ⓘ
white ⓘ |
| hasCommonName |
halite
ⓘ
table salt ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
chlorideIon
ⓘ
sodiumIon ⓘ |
| hasCrystalSystem | cubic ⓘ |
| hasDensity | 2.16 g/cm³ ⓘ |
| hasFoodAdditiveCode | E524 (sodium chloride solution) ⓘ |
| hasHardnessOnMohsScale | 2 to 2.5 ⓘ |
| hasIUPACName | sodium chloride ⓘ |
| hasLatticeStructure | face-centeredCubic ⓘ |
| hasMeltingPoint | 801 °C ⓘ |
| hasMolarMass | 58.44 g/mol ⓘ |
| hasStateAtRoomTemperature | solid ⓘ |
| hasTaste | salty ⓘ |
| isEssentialNutrientFor |
animals
ⓘ
humans ⓘ |
| isSolubleIn | water ⓘ |
| obtainedBy |
evaporationOfBrine
ⓘ
evaporationOfSeawater ⓘ mining ⓘ |
| occursAs |
rockSaltDeposits
ⓘ
seaSaltCrystals ⓘ |
| regulatedBy | humanKidneys ⓘ |
| usedAs |
deicingAgent
ⓘ
flavorEnhancer ⓘ foodPreservative ⓘ industrialRawMaterial ⓘ seasoning ⓘ waterSofteningAgent ⓘ |
| usedIn |
baking
ⓘ
cheeseProduction ⓘ chemicalIndustry ⓘ chloralkaliProcess ⓘ foodProcessing ⓘ meatCuring ⓘ pickling ⓘ |
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: Salt Description of subject: Salt is a mineral primarily composed of sodium chloride, widely used as a seasoning, preservative, and essential nutrient in human and animal diets.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.