Fimiston Open Pit
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Fimiston Open Pit, commonly known as the Super Pit, is one of Australia’s largest open-cut gold mines located near Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kalgoorlie Super Pit | 3 |
| Fimiston Open Pit canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11454331 — 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: Fimiston Open Pit Context triple: [Super Pit, alsoKnownAs, Fimiston Open Pit]
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A.
Minntac Mine
Minntac Mine is a large taconite iron ore mining and processing operation in Minnesota and one of the major producers of iron ore pellets in the United States.
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B.
Andoom Mine
Andoom Mine is a major bauxite mining operation near Weipa in Queensland, Australia, contributing significantly to the region’s aluminum ore production.
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C.
Santa Bárbara mine
Santa Bárbara mine is a historic mercury mine near Huancavelica in Peru, once one of the most important sources of mercury for Spanish colonial silver mining.
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D.
Bullfrog Mine
Bullfrog Mine was a prominent early 20th-century gold mine in Nevada that gave its name to the surrounding Bullfrog mining district and helped spur the regional mining boom.
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E.
Panguna mine
Panguna mine is a large, now-closed open-cut copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea that was once among the world’s biggest and played a central role in the Bougainville conflict.
- 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: Fimiston Open Pit Target entity description: Fimiston Open Pit, commonly known as the Super Pit, is one of Australia’s largest open-cut gold mines located near Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.
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A.
Minntac Mine
Minntac Mine is a large taconite iron ore mining and processing operation in Minnesota and one of the major producers of iron ore pellets in the United States.
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B.
Andoom Mine
Andoom Mine is a major bauxite mining operation near Weipa in Queensland, Australia, contributing significantly to the region’s aluminum ore production.
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C.
Santa Bárbara mine
Santa Bárbara mine is a historic mercury mine near Huancavelica in Peru, once one of the most important sources of mercury for Spanish colonial silver mining.
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D.
Bullfrog Mine
Bullfrog Mine was a prominent early 20th-century gold mine in Nevada that gave its name to the surrounding Bullfrog mining district and helped spur the regional mining boom.
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E.
Panguna mine
Panguna mine is a large, now-closed open-cut copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea that was once among the world’s biggest and played a central role in the Bougainville conflict.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
gold mine
ⓘ
mine ⓘ open-pit gold mine ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Kalgoorlie Super Pit
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Super Pit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| city | Kalgoorlie-Boulder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commodity |
gold
ⓘ
silver ⓘ |
| continent | Australia ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| environmentalConcern |
land disturbance
ⓘ
waste rock and tailings management ⓘ |
| geologicalProvince | Yilgarn Craton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEconomicImportance | major contributor to Western Australian gold production ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
truck-and-shovel operations
ⓘ
very large open pit ⓘ |
| hasNearbySettlement |
Boulder
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kalgoorlie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasType | large-scale open-pit mine ⓘ |
| hasViewingPlatform | yes ⓘ |
| industry | mining industry ⓘ |
| isTouristAttraction | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Goldfields-Esperance region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kalgoorlie NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Australia ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Australian Western Standard Time ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Golden Mile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| miningMethod | open-cut mining ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Fimiston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | Kalgoorlie-Boulder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openingYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| operator | Northern Star Resources NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| oreType | gold-bearing ore ⓘ |
| owner | Northern Star Resources NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Eastern Goldfields
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kalgoorlie goldfields NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousOwner |
Barrick Gold
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines NERFINISHED ⓘ Newmont Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| processingMethod |
crushing and milling of ore
ⓘ
cyanide leaching ⓘ |
| product |
gold
ⓘ
silver ⓘ |
| region | Goldfields-Esperance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significance | one of Australia’s largest open-cut gold mines ⓘ |
| state | Western Australia ⓘ |
| transportMode | haul trucks ⓘ |
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: Fimiston Open Pit Description of subject: Fimiston Open Pit, commonly known as the Super Pit, is one of Australia’s largest open-cut gold mines located near Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kalgoorlie Super Pit
this entity surface form:
Kalgoorlie Super Pit
this entity surface form:
Kalgoorlie Super Pit