FAO Major Fishing Area 31
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FAO Major Fishing Area 31 is a designated FAO fishing region in the western Atlantic Ocean used for the management and statistical monitoring of marine fisheries.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| FAO Major Fishing Area 31 canonical | 4 |
| FAO Major Fishing Area for statistical purposes | 1 |
| FAO Major Fishing Areas | 1 |
| FAO fishing area classification | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2712506 — 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: FAO Major Fishing Area 31 Context triple: [FAO Major Fishing Area 34, borderedBy, FAO Major Fishing Area 31]
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A.
FAO Major Fishing Area 34
FAO Major Fishing Area 34 is an internationally designated Atlantic Ocean fishing zone encompassing the marine waters off West Africa, including the Gulf of Guinea.
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B.
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization area
The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization area is an internationally managed marine region in the northwest Atlantic Ocean where member countries coordinate the conservation and sustainable use of fishery resources.
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C.
North Atlantic fisheries
North Atlantic fisheries are rich, historically significant fishing grounds in the northern Atlantic Ocean that have long supported commercial fishing industries and coastal communities in Europe and North America.
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D.
CCAMLR Convention Area
The CCAMLR Convention Area is a designated region of the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica where international measures are applied to conserve marine living resources and manage fisheries sustainably.
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E.
Pomor area
The Pomor area is a historical coastal region along the White Sea in northern Russia, traditionally inhabited by the seafaring Pomor people known for fishing, trade, and Arctic navigation.
- 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: FAO Major Fishing Area 31 Target entity description: FAO Major Fishing Area 31 is a designated FAO fishing region in the western Atlantic Ocean used for the management and statistical monitoring of marine fisheries.
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A.
FAO Major Fishing Area 34
FAO Major Fishing Area 34 is an internationally designated Atlantic Ocean fishing zone encompassing the marine waters off West Africa, including the Gulf of Guinea.
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B.
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization area
The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization area is an internationally managed marine region in the northwest Atlantic Ocean where member countries coordinate the conservation and sustainable use of fishery resources.
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C.
North Atlantic fisheries
North Atlantic fisheries are rich, historically significant fishing grounds in the northern Atlantic Ocean that have long supported commercial fishing industries and coastal communities in Europe and North America.
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D.
CCAMLR Convention Area
The CCAMLR Convention Area is a designated region of the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica where international measures are applied to conserve marine living resources and manage fisheries sustainably.
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E.
Pomor area
The Pomor area is a historical coastal region along the White Sea in northern Russia, traditionally inhabited by the seafaring Pomor people known for fishing, trade, and Arctic navigation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
FAO Major Fishing Area
ⓘ
marine fishing area ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Caribbean islands
ⓘ
Central America ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ |
| classification |
FAO Major Fishing Area for statistical purposes
ⓘ
linked to:
FAO Major Fishing Area 31
|
| coordinateSystem |
FAO fishing area classification
ⓘ
linked to:
FAO Major Fishing Area 31
|
| country |
Bahamas
ⓘ
Belize ⓘ Colombia ⓘ Costa Rica ⓘ Cuba ⓘ Guatemala ⓘ Honduras ⓘ Mexico ⓘ Nicaragua ⓘ Panama ⓘ United States of America ⓘ Venezuela ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Western Central Atlantic
ⓘ
linked to:
Tropical Northwestern Atlantic
Western Central Atlantic FAO Fishing Area ⓘ |
| hasBoundaryType | maritime boundary ⓘ |
| hasEcosystemType |
marine ecosystem
ⓘ
tropical marine ecosystem ⓘ |
| hasFAOCode | 31 ⓘ |
| hasMainFisheryType | marine capture fisheries ⓘ |
| hasThematicFocus |
assessment of fish stocks
ⓘ
sustainable use of marine living resources ⓘ |
| includesWaterBody |
Bahamas region
ⓘ
linked to:
Bahamas
Caribbean Sea ⓘ Gulf of Mexico ⓘ Straits of Florida ⓘ northwestern tropical Atlantic ⓘ
linked to:
Tropical Northwestern Atlantic
|
| locatedIn |
western Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
linked to:
Northwest Atlantic Ocean
|
| monitoredBy |
FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Division
ⓘ
linked to:
Food and Agriculture Organization
|
| partOf |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
FAO Major Fishing Areas ⓘ
linked to:
FAO Major Fishing Area 31
|
| regulates |
artisanal marine fisheries
ⓘ
industrial marine fisheries ⓘ small-scale coastal fisheries ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
FAO State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture reports
ⓘ
linked to:
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture
FAO fisheries statistics ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
ⓘ
linked to:
Food and Agriculture Organization
|
| usedFor |
fisheries management
ⓘ
statistical monitoring of marine 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: FAO Major Fishing Area 31 Description of subject: FAO Major Fishing Area 31 is a designated FAO fishing region in the western Atlantic Ocean used for the management and statistical monitoring of marine fisheries.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: FAO Major Fishing Area 31
linked to: FAO Major Fishing Area 31
linked to: FAO Major Fishing Area 31