Selawik
E113388
Selawik is a small Inupiat community in northwest Alaska known for its subsistence lifestyle and location near the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Selawik canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T839601 — 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: Selawik Context triple: [Northwest Arctic Borough, containsSettlement, Selawik]
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A.
Atqasuk
Atqasuk is a small Iñupiat community and city in northern Alaska, located inland on the Arctic coastal plain.
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B.
Nuiqsut
Nuiqsut is a small Inupiat community in northern Alaska located near the Arctic Ocean and closely tied to the region’s oil and gas development.
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C.
Yakutat
Yakutat is a small coastal city in southeastern Alaska known for its remote location, fishing industry, and access to the Gulf of Alaska’s rugged natural landscapes.
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D.
Kivalina
Kivalina is a small Inupiat village in northwestern Alaska known for its severe coastal erosion and vulnerability to climate change–driven sea level rise.
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E.
Kaktovik
Kaktovik is a small Inupiat village on Barter Island in Alaska’s Arctic coastal plain, known as a gateway to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and a popular spot for polar bear viewing.
- 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: Selawik Target entity description: Selawik is a small Inupiat community in northwest Alaska known for its subsistence lifestyle and location near the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge.
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A.
Atqasuk
Atqasuk is a small Iñupiat community and city in northern Alaska, located inland on the Arctic coastal plain.
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B.
Nuiqsut
Nuiqsut is a small Inupiat community in northern Alaska located near the Arctic Ocean and closely tied to the region’s oil and gas development.
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C.
Yakutat
Yakutat is a small coastal city in southeastern Alaska known for its remote location, fishing industry, and access to the Gulf of Alaska’s rugged natural landscapes.
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D.
Kivalina
Kivalina is a small Inupiat village in northwestern Alaska known for its severe coastal erosion and vulnerability to climate change–driven sea level rise.
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E.
Kaktovik
Kaktovik is a small Inupiat village on Barter Island in Alaska’s Arctic coastal plain, known as a gateway to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and a popular spot for polar bear viewing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
community ⓘ human settlement ⓘ |
| accessibility |
primarily accessible by air
ⓘ
seasonal river travel ⓘ |
| borough | Northwest Arctic Borough ⓘ |
| climate | subarctic climate ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| economicContext | rural Alaska community ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Iñupiat
ⓘ
linked to:
Inuit
|
| feature |
river delta setting
ⓘ
wetland environment ⓘ |
| governingBody |
city government
ⓘ
tribal government ⓘ |
| hasCulturalHeritage |
Iñupiat culture
ⓘ
linked to:
Alaska Natives
|
| hasIndigenousLanguage |
Iñupiaq
ⓘ
linked to:
Inupiaq
|
| lifestyle | subsistence lifestyle ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alaska
ⓘ
Northwest Arctic Borough ⓘ northwest Alaska ⓘ
linked to:
northwestern Alaska
|
| locatedOn | Selawik River ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Selawik River ⓘ |
| near |
Kotzebue Sound region
ⓘ
linked to:
Kotzebue Sound
Selawik National Wildlife Refuge ⓘ |
| populationClass | small community ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicActivities |
subsistence fishing
ⓘ
subsistence gathering ⓘ subsistence hunting ⓘ |
| protectedAreaNearby | Selawik National Wildlife Refuge ⓘ |
| region |
Arctic Alaska
ⓘ
linked to:
northern Alaska
|
| state | Alaska ⓘ |
| timeZone | Alaska Time Zone ⓘ |
| transportationMode |
boat
ⓘ
small aircraft ⓘ snowmachine ⓘ |
| wildlifeRefugeFor |
caribou
ⓘ
migratory birds ⓘ moose ⓘ waterfowl ⓘ |
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: Selawik Description of subject: Selawik is a small Inupiat community in northwest Alaska known for its subsistence lifestyle and location near the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.