West Island
E182585
West Island is the main inhabited settlement and administrative center of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| West Island canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1582386 — 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: West Island Context triple: [Cocos (Keeling) Islands, capital, West Island]
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A.
West Island
West Island is the suburban western portion of the Island of Montreal, known for its residential communities, green spaces, and proximity to the city’s urban core.
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B.
Canvey Island
Canvey Island is a low-lying reclaimed island and seaside town in the Thames Estuary, known for its coastal defenses, holiday parks, and location off the coast of Essex, England.
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C.
Island of Montreal
The Island of Montreal is a large, densely populated island in southwestern Quebec that hosts the city of Montreal and several surrounding municipalities in the Saint Lawrence River.
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D.
Half Moon Island
Half Moon Island is a small, crescent-shaped Antarctic island in the South Shetland Islands, known for its penguin colonies and use as a site for scientific research stations.
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E.
Grande Île
Grande Île is the historic center of Strasbourg, France, renowned for its medieval architecture, canals, and the Gothic Strasbourg Cathedral.
- 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: West Island Target entity description: West Island is the main inhabited settlement and administrative center of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean.
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A.
West Island
West Island is the suburban western portion of the Island of Montreal, known for its residential communities, green spaces, and proximity to the city’s urban core.
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B.
Canvey Island
Canvey Island is a low-lying reclaimed island and seaside town in the Thames Estuary, known for its coastal defenses, holiday parks, and location off the coast of Essex, England.
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C.
Island of Montreal
The Island of Montreal is a large, densely populated island in southwestern Quebec that hosts the city of Montreal and several surrounding municipalities in the Saint Lawrence River.
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D.
Half Moon Island
Half Moon Island is a small, crescent-shaped Antarctic island in the South Shetland Islands, known for its penguin colonies and use as a site for scientific research stations.
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E.
Grande Île
Grande Île is the historic center of Strasbourg, France, renowned for its medieval architecture, canals, and the Gothic Strasbourg Cathedral.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative centre
ⓘ
settlement ⓘ town ⓘ |
| administeredBy | Shire of Cocos (Keeling) Islands ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| governingCountryType | external territory of Australia ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport ⓘ |
| hasClimate | tropical climate ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
accommodation for visitors
ⓘ
administrative offices of the Shire of Cocos (Keeling) Islands ⓘ small commercial services ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
government administration hub for the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
ⓘ
transport hub for the Cocos (Keeling) Islands ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
administrative
ⓘ
residential ⓘ tourism-related ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryLanguage |
Cocos Malay
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| hasTransportInfrastructure | airstrip at Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport ⓘ |
| isInFederalElectorate | Lingiari ⓘ |
| isInStateLikeJurisdiction | non-self-governing external territory of Australia ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
ⓘ
Indian Ocean ⓘ |
| locatedInOcean | Indian Ocean ⓘ |
| partOf | Australian external territory ⓘ |
| partOfArchipelago |
Cocos (Keeling) Islands archipelago
ⓘ
linked to:
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
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| role |
administrative center of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
ⓘ
main inhabited settlement of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands ⓘ |
| sovereignState | Australia ⓘ |
| timeZone | UTC+06:30 ⓘ |
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: West Island Description of subject: West Island is the main inhabited settlement and administrative center of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.