Backstairs Passage
E298626
Backstairs Passage is a narrow strait in South Australia that separates Kangaroo Island from the mainland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Backstairs Passage canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2791432 — 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: Backstairs Passage Context triple: [Kangaroo Island, separatedFromBy, Backstairs Passage]
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A.
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit is an 1882 oil painting by John Singer Sargent that portrays the four young daughters of a wealthy American family in a strikingly unconventional, psychologically complex interior scene.
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B.
The Spiral Staircase
The Spiral Staircase is a memoir by religious historian Karen Armstrong that recounts her journey from life in a Catholic convent through illness and crisis to a renewed, more expansive understanding of faith.
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C.
The Spiral Staircase
The Spiral Staircase is a classic 1946 psychological thriller film, directed by Robert Siodmak, about a mute woman terrorized by a serial killer in a secluded mansion.
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D.
The Blue Hotel
The Blue Hotel is a short story by American author Stephen Crane that explores themes of fear, alienation, and violence in a small Nebraska town.
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E.
The Lady in White
The Lady in White is a 1988 supernatural mystery-horror film in which Lukas Haas stars as a young boy who witnesses a ghostly apparition and uncovers a long-buried murder.
- 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: Backstairs Passage Target entity description: Backstairs Passage is a narrow strait in South Australia that separates Kangaroo Island from the mainland.
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A.
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit is an 1882 oil painting by John Singer Sargent that portrays the four young daughters of a wealthy American family in a strikingly unconventional, psychologically complex interior scene.
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B.
The Spiral Staircase
The Spiral Staircase is a memoir by religious historian Karen Armstrong that recounts her journey from life in a Catholic convent through illness and crisis to a renewed, more expansive understanding of faith.
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C.
The Spiral Staircase
The Spiral Staircase is a classic 1946 psychological thriller film, directed by Robert Siodmak, about a mute woman terrorized by a serial killer in a secluded mansion.
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D.
The Blue Hotel
The Blue Hotel is a short story by American author Stephen Crane that explores themes of fear, alienation, and violence in a small Nebraska town.
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E.
The Lady in White
The Lady in White is a 1988 supernatural mystery-horror film in which Lukas Haas stars as a young boy who witnesses a ghostly apparition and uncovers a long-buried murder.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographical feature
ⓘ
strait ⓘ |
| connects |
Gulf St Vincent
ⓘ
Southern Ocean ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| discoveredByEuropeans | Matthew Flinders ⓘ |
| hasFerryRoute | Cape Jervis–Penneshaw ferry ⓘ |
| hasNavigationHazards |
reefs
ⓘ
strong tidal flows ⓘ |
| hasNearbyIsland | Kangaroo Island ⓘ |
| hasNearbyTown |
Cape Jervis
ⓘ
Penneshaw ⓘ |
| hasRoughSeas | true ⓘ |
| hasStrongCurrent | true ⓘ |
| isHabitatOf |
dolphins
ⓘ
seabirds ⓘ seals ⓘ |
| locatedIn | South Australia ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Fleurieu Peninsula region
ⓘ
linked to:
Fleurieu Peninsula
Kangaroo Island region ⓘ
linked to:
Kangaroo Island
|
| locatedNorthOf | Kangaroo Island ⓘ |
| locatedSouthOf | Fleurieu Peninsula ⓘ |
| namedBy | Matthew Flinders ⓘ |
| partOf | Southern Ocean ⓘ |
| separates |
Fleurieu Peninsula
ⓘ
Kangaroo Island ⓘ mainland South Australia ⓘ |
| usedFor |
ferry transport
ⓘ
marine navigation ⓘ |
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: Backstairs Passage Description of subject: Backstairs Passage is a narrow strait in South Australia that separates Kangaroo Island from the mainland.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.