Świna
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Świna is a strait in the Baltic Sea region that connects the Szczecin Lagoon with the Pomeranian Bay, separating parts of the islands of Usedom and Wolin in northwestern Poland.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2515899 — 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: Świna Context triple: [Island of Usedom, borderedBy, Świna]
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Svínoy
Svínoy is a small, sparsely populated island in the northeastern Faroe Islands, known for its steep cliffs, birdlife, and traditional Faroese village.
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B.
Sus scrofa
Sus scrofa is the wild boar, a widespread Eurasian mammal that is the wild ancestor of the domestic pig.
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C.
Woensel
Woensel is a large residential district in the northern part of the Dutch city of Eindhoven, known for its diverse population and extensive post-war housing.
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D.
Wilczęta
Wilczęta is a small village in northern Poland located within the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, known for its rural character and proximity to the region’s lakes and forests.
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E.
Hyena-swine
Hyena-swine is a vicious, part-hyena, part-pig Beast Folk creature in H. G. Wells’s novel "The Island of Doctor Moreau," known for its brutality and defiance of Moreau’s imposed laws.
- 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: Świna Target entity description: Świna is a strait in the Baltic Sea region that connects the Szczecin Lagoon with the Pomeranian Bay, separating parts of the islands of Usedom and Wolin in northwestern Poland.
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A.
Svínoy
Svínoy is a small, sparsely populated island in the northeastern Faroe Islands, known for its steep cliffs, birdlife, and traditional Faroese village.
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B.
Sus scrofa
Sus scrofa is the wild boar, a widespread Eurasian mammal that is the wild ancestor of the domestic pig.
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C.
Woensel
Woensel is a large residential district in the northern part of the Dutch city of Eindhoven, known for its diverse population and extensive post-war housing.
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D.
Wilczęta
Wilczęta is a small village in northern Poland located within the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, known for its rural character and proximity to the region’s lakes and forests.
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E.
Hyena-swine
Hyena-swine is a vicious, part-hyena, part-pig Beast Folk creature in H. G. Wells’s novel "The Island of Doctor Moreau," known for its brutality and defiance of Moreau’s imposed laws.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographical feature
ⓘ
strait ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
Szczecin Lagoon–Oder estuary system
ⓘ
linked to:
Szczecin Lagoon
|
| borderProximity | German–Polish border ⓘ |
| connects |
Pomeranian Bay
ⓘ
Szczecin Lagoon ⓘ |
| country | Poland ⓘ |
| ecoregion |
Baltic Sea ecoregion
ⓘ
linked to:
Baltic Sea
|
| flowsInto | Baltic Sea ⓘ |
| flowsThrough | Świnoujście ⓘ |
| hasGermanName |
Swine
ⓘ
linked to:
Świna
|
| hasKashubianName | Swina ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOrigin | Polish ⓘ |
| hasNavigationChannel | Świna fairway ⓘ |
| hasNearbyPort | Świnoujście seaport ⓘ |
| hasSalinity | brackish water ⓘ |
| hasType | coastal strait ⓘ |
| isHydrologicallyConnectedTo |
Oder River
ⓘ
Peene River system via Szczecin Lagoon ⓘ |
| isImportantFor | access to port of Szczecin ⓘ |
| isInfluencedBy | Baltic Sea tides and winds ⓘ |
| isPartOfWaterSystem | Oder–Neisse river system ⓘ |
| isProtectedBy | nearby Wolin National Park ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
West Pomeranian Voivodeship
ⓘ
northwestern Poland ⓘ |
| mouthLocatedIn | Pomeranian Bay ⓘ |
| nearbyCity | Świnoujście ⓘ |
| partOf |
Baltic Sea basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Baltic Sea drainage basin
Oder River estuary ⓘ
linked to:
Oder River delta
|
| region | Pomerania ⓘ |
| separates |
island of Usedom
ⓘ
linked to:
Island of Usedom
island of Wolin ⓘ
linked to:
Wolin Island
|
| separatesPartOf |
eastern part of Usedom
ⓘ
western part of Wolin ⓘ |
| sourceLocatedIn | Szczecin Lagoon ⓘ |
| usedFor |
fishing
ⓘ
maritime navigation ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| waterwayFor | shipping between Szczecin Lagoon and Baltic Sea ⓘ |
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: Świna Description of subject: Świna is a strait in the Baltic Sea region that connects the Szczecin Lagoon with the Pomeranian Bay, separating parts of the islands of Usedom and Wolin in northwestern Poland.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Świna
linked to: Świna