Creede mining district
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The Creede mining district is a historic silver-mining area in southwestern Colorado that rose to prominence during the late-19th-century silver boom.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Creede mining district canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11141327 — 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: Creede mining district Context triple: [Colorado silver boom, majorMiningDistrict, Creede mining district]
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A.
Aspen mining district
The Aspen mining district is a historic Colorado mining area that became one of the nation’s richest silver-producing regions in the late 19th century.
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B.
Pioche mining district
The Pioche mining district is a historic silver and lead mining area centered around the town of Pioche in southeastern Nevada, known for its rich ore deposits and boomtown past in the late 19th century.
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C.
Round Mountain mining district
The Round Mountain mining district is a notable gold-producing area in central Nevada, best known for the large open-pit Round Mountain Gold Mine.
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D.
Cherry Creek mining district
The Cherry Creek mining district is a historic silver and gold mining area in eastern Nevada known for its 19th-century boomtown activity and numerous underground mines.
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E.
Leadville mining district
The Leadville mining district is a historically significant Colorado mining region famed for its rich silver, lead, and zinc deposits that fueled major mining booms in the late 19th century.
- 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: Creede mining district Target entity description: The Creede mining district is a historic silver-mining area in southwestern Colorado that rose to prominence during the late-19th-century silver boom.
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A.
Aspen mining district
The Aspen mining district is a historic Colorado mining area that became one of the nation’s richest silver-producing regions in the late 19th century.
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B.
Pioche mining district
The Pioche mining district is a historic silver and lead mining area centered around the town of Pioche in southeastern Nevada, known for its rich ore deposits and boomtown past in the late 19th century.
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C.
Round Mountain mining district
The Round Mountain mining district is a notable gold-producing area in central Nevada, best known for the large open-pit Round Mountain Gold Mine.
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D.
Cherry Creek mining district
The Cherry Creek mining district is a historic silver and gold mining area in eastern Nevada known for its 19th-century boomtown activity and numerous underground mines.
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E.
Leadville mining district
The Leadville mining district is a historically significant Colorado mining region famed for its rich silver, lead, and zinc deposits that fueled major mining booms in the late 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic district
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mining district ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Denver & Rio Grande Railroad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
Amethyst vein
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Bachelor mine NERFINISHED ⓘ Commodore mine NERFINISHED ⓘ Holy Moses mine NERFINISHED ⓘ Last Chance mine NERFINISHED ⓘ North Amethyst mine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| currentPrimaryUse |
heritage tourism
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recreation ⓘ |
| developedAround | Willow Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveredAsMiningCamp | late 1880s ⓘ |
| economicImportance | major silver producer in Colorado in the 1890s ⓘ |
| environmentalIssue |
abandoned mine lands
ⓘ
acid mine drainage risk ⓘ |
| geologicalSetting |
epithermal vein deposits
ⓘ
hydrothermal vein systems ⓘ |
| hasCenter | Creede, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHeritageDesignation | historic mining district ⓘ |
| historicalEvent | Colorado silver boom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| knownFor |
gold byproduct production
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lead mining ⓘ silver mining ⓘ zinc mining ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Colorado
ⓘ
southwestern Colorado ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Mineral County, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInMountainRange | San Juan Mountains of Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| metalProduced |
gold
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lead ⓘ silver ⓘ zinc ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Creede, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| oreMineral |
argentite
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galena ⓘ pyrite ⓘ sphalerite ⓘ |
| oreType | silver-bearing sulfide ores ⓘ |
| partOf |
San Juan Mountains
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
San Juan volcanic field NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| peakProductionPeriod | 1890s ⓘ |
| riseToProminenceDuring | late-19th-century silver boom ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
economic geology research
ⓘ
mining history studies ⓘ |
| tourismAttractionType | ghost-town and mining-heritage tourism ⓘ |
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: Creede mining district Description of subject: The Creede mining district is a historic silver-mining area in southwestern Colorado that rose to prominence during the late-19th-century silver boom.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.