# ASGM-KG: Unveiling Alluvial Gold Mining Through Knowledge Graphs

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08972 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.08972/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 10 of its 35 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 16 Aug 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 10 of 10)

- [Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.08302/) (2023)
- [SimplE Embedding for Link Prediction in Knowledge Graphs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.04868/) (2018)
- [CoDEx: A Comprehensive Knowledge Graph Completion Benchmark](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2009.07810/) (2020)
- [Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: Opportunities and Challenges](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.06374/) (2023)
- [Text2KGBench: A Benchmark for Ontology-Driven Knowledge Graph Generation from Text](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.02357/) (2023)
- [WorldKG: A World-Scale Geographic Knowledge Graph](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.10036/) (2021)
- [A Preliminary Roadmap for LLMs as Assistants in Exploring, Analyzing, and Visualizing Knowledge Graphs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.01425/) (2024)
- [A Retrieve-and-Read Framework for Knowledge Graph Link Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.09724/) (2022)
- [Expanding Knowledge Graphs with Humans in the Loop](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.05189/) (2022)
- [Knowledge Acquisition and Integration with Expert-in-the-loop](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.03291/) (2024)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Panning for Gold: Expanding Domain-Specific Knowledge Graphs with General Knowledge](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.10485/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) is a low-cost yet highly destructive mining practice, leading to environmental disasters across the world's tropical watersheds. The topic of ASGM spans multiple domains of research and information, including natural and social systems, and knowledge is often atomized across a diversity of media and documents. We therefore introduce a knowledge graph (ASGM-KG) that consolidates and provides crucial information about ASGM practices and their environmental effects. The current version of ASGM-KG consists of 1,899 triples extracted using a large language model (LLM) from documents and reports published by both non-governmental and governmental organizations. These documents were carefully selected by a group of tropical ecologists with expertise in ASGM. This knowledge graph was validated using two methods. First, a small team of ASGM experts reviewed and labeled triples as factual or non-factual. Second, we devised and applied an automated factual reduction framework that relies on a search engine and an LLM for labeling triples. Our framework performs as well as five baselines on a publicly available knowledge graph and achieves over 90 accuracy on our ASGM-KG validated by domain experts. ASGM-KG demonstrates an advancement in knowledge aggregation and representation for complex, interdisciplinary environmental crises such as ASGM.