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For example, the word "Mercury" can refer to several different things, including an element, a planet, an automobile brand, a record label, a NASA manned-spaceflight project, a plant, and a Roman god. Since only one Wikipedia page can have the generic name "Mercury", ''unambiguous'' article titles are used for each of these topics: [[Mercury (element)]], [[Mercury (planet)]], [[Mercury (automobile)]], [[Mercury Records]], [[Project Mercury]], [[Mercury (plant)]], [[Mercury (mythology)]]. There must then be a way to direct the reader to the correct specific article when an ambiguous term is referenced by linking, browsing or searching; this is what is known as ''disambiguation''. In this case it is achieved using [[Mercury]] as a ''disambiguation page''.