Iligan Bay
E240341
Iligan Bay is a coastal bay in the southern Philippines known for bordering the northern coast of Mindanao and serving as an important fishing and maritime area.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iligan Bay canonical | 17 |
| Iligan Bay area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2146064 — 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: Iligan Bay Context triple: [Northern Mindanao, hasBodyOfWater, Iligan Bay]
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A.
Iligan
Iligan is a highly urbanized coastal city in the northern part of Mindanao in the Philippines, known for its numerous waterfalls and industrial economy.
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B.
Bight of Benin
The Bight of Benin is a broad bay on the West African coast along the Gulf of Guinea, bordered by countries such as Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria and historically known for its role in the transatlantic slave trade.
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C.
Bight of Biafra
The Bight of Biafra is a large bay on the easternmost part of the Gulf of Guinea along the West African coast, bordering countries such as Nigeria and Cameroon and historically significant in Atlantic trade routes.
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D.
Gulf of Batabanó
The Gulf of Batabanó is a shallow, island-dotted gulf off the southern coast of western Cuba, known for its rich marine life and important fishing grounds.
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E.
Panay Gulf
Panay Gulf is a body of water in the central Philippines that separates Panay Island from Negros Island and connects to the Sulu Sea.
- 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: Iligan Bay Target entity description: Iligan Bay is a coastal bay in the southern Philippines known for bordering the northern coast of Mindanao and serving as an important fishing and maritime area.
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A.
Iligan
Iligan is a highly urbanized coastal city in the northern part of Mindanao in the Philippines, known for its numerous waterfalls and industrial economy.
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B.
Bight of Benin
The Bight of Benin is a broad bay on the West African coast along the Gulf of Guinea, bordered by countries such as Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria and historically known for its role in the transatlantic slave trade.
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C.
Bight of Biafra
The Bight of Biafra is a large bay on the easternmost part of the Gulf of Guinea along the West African coast, bordering countries such as Nigeria and Cameroon and historically significant in Atlantic trade routes.
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D.
Gulf of Batabanó
The Gulf of Batabanó is a shallow, island-dotted gulf off the southern coast of western Cuba, known for its rich marine life and important fishing grounds.
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E.
Panay Gulf
Panay Gulf is a body of water in the central Philippines that separates Panay Island from Negros Island and connects to the Sulu Sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bay
ⓘ
coastal water body ⓘ |
| bodyOfWaterType | marine bay ⓘ |
| borders | northern coast of Mindanao ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Bohol Sea
ⓘ
Mindanao Sea ⓘ
linked to:
Bohol Sea
|
| country | Philippines ⓘ |
| hasCityOnShore |
Iligan
ⓘ
Oroquieta ⓘ Ozamiz ⓘ Tangub ⓘ |
| hasClimate | tropical climate ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
fisheries
ⓘ
shipping ⓘ trade ⓘ |
| hasEcosystem |
coastal ecosystem
ⓘ
marine ecosystem ⓘ |
| hasLanguageRegion | Cebuano-speaking area ⓘ |
| hasNavigation | domestic shipping routes ⓘ |
| hasNearbyCity |
Iligan
ⓘ
Oroquieta ⓘ Ozamiz ⓘ Tangub ⓘ |
| hasPort |
Port of Iligan
ⓘ
Port of Ozamiz ⓘ |
| hasProvinceOnCoast |
Lanao del Norte
ⓘ
Misamis Occidental ⓘ Misamis Oriental ⓘ |
| hasResource |
coastal fisheries resources
ⓘ
marine fish stocks ⓘ |
| hasUse |
subsistence fishing
ⓘ
transport of goods ⓘ transport of passengers ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Republic of the Philippines
ⓘ
linked to:
Philippines
|
| knownFor |
fishing
ⓘ
maritime activities ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Mindanao
ⓘ
Northern Mindanao ⓘ southern Philippines ⓘ |
| locatedOnIsland | Mindanao ⓘ |
| partOf |
Bohol Sea
ⓘ
Philippine archipelagic waters ⓘ |
| region |
Region X Northern Mindanao
ⓘ
linked to:
Northern Mindanao
|
| usedFor |
commercial fishing
ⓘ
marine transportation ⓘ port activities ⓘ small-scale fisheries ⓘ |
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: Iligan Bay Description of subject: Iligan Bay is a coastal bay in the southern Philippines known for bordering the northern coast of Mindanao and serving as an important fishing and maritime area.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.