Palk Strait
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Palk Strait is a narrow stretch of sea between southeastern India and northern Sri Lanka, known for its shallow waters and significance as a maritime boundary.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Palk Strait canonical | 42 |
| Palk Strait maritime boundary | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T674752 — 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: Palk Strait Context triple: [Jaffna, adjacentTo, Palk Strait]
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A.
La Pérouse Strait
La Pérouse Strait is a narrow international waterway between Japan’s Hokkaido and Russia’s Sakhalin Island that links the Sea of Japan with the Sea of Okhotsk.
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B.
Bering Strait
The Bering Strait is a narrow sea passage between Russia and Alaska that links the Arctic and Pacific Oceans and historically separated Asia from North America.
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C.
Lombok Strait
Lombok Strait is a deep, narrow waterway between the Indonesian islands of Bali and Lombok that serves as a major international shipping route and alternative passage to the nearby Strait of Malacca.
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D.
Tsugaru Strait
The Tsugaru Strait is a narrow body of water separating Japan’s Honshu and Hokkaido islands, serving as a key maritime passage between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean.
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E.
Korea Strait
The Korea Strait is a narrow body of water between the Korean Peninsula and Japan that forms a key maritime passage linking the East China Sea with the Sea of Japan.
- 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: Palk Strait Target entity description: Palk Strait is a narrow stretch of sea between southeastern India and northern Sri Lanka, known for its shallow waters and significance as a maritime boundary.
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A.
La Pérouse Strait
La Pérouse Strait is a narrow international waterway between Japan’s Hokkaido and Russia’s Sakhalin Island that links the Sea of Japan with the Sea of Okhotsk.
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B.
Bering Strait
The Bering Strait is a narrow sea passage between Russia and Alaska that links the Arctic and Pacific Oceans and historically separated Asia from North America.
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C.
Lombok Strait
Lombok Strait is a deep, narrow waterway between the Indonesian islands of Bali and Lombok that serves as a major international shipping route and alternative passage to the nearby Strait of Malacca.
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D.
Tsugaru Strait
The Tsugaru Strait is a narrow body of water separating Japan’s Honshu and Hokkaido islands, serving as a key maritime passage between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean.
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E.
Korea Strait
The Korea Strait is a narrow body of water between the Korean Peninsula and Japan that forms a key maritime passage linking the East China Sea with the Sea of Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Palk Strait Description of subject: Palk Strait is a narrow stretch of sea between southeastern India and northern Sri Lanka, known for its shallow waters and significance as a maritime boundary.
Referenced by (43)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Nainativu Island (nearby pilgrimage site)
linked to: Palk Strait
subject linked to:
Schneider and Co.