Wetar Strait
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Wetar Strait is a narrow sea passage in Southeast Asia that separates the island of Timor from the Indonesian island of Wetar and forms part of the boundary between Indonesia and Timor-Leste.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wetar Strait canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2211599 — 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: Wetar Strait Context triple: [Atauro, separatedBy, Wetar Strait]
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A.
Ombai Strait
Ombai Strait is a narrow sea passage in Southeast Asia that separates Timor Island from the Alor Archipelago and forms part of an important deep-water shipping and oceanographic route between the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
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B.
Makanrushi Strait
Makanrushi Strait is a sea passage in the Kuril Islands chain, separating the island of Makanrushi from its neighboring islands in the northwest Pacific Ocean.
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C.
Sumba Strait
Sumba Strait is a body of water in eastern Indonesia that separates Sumba Island from neighboring islands and connects parts of the Indian Ocean with the surrounding seas.
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D.
Friza Strait
Friza Strait is a sea passage located among Russia’s Kuril Islands in the northwest Pacific Ocean.
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E.
Lombok Strait
Lombok Strait is a deep, narrow waterway between the Indonesian islands of Bali and Lombok that serves as a major international shipping route and alternative passage to the nearby Strait of Malacca.
- 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: Wetar Strait Target entity description: Wetar Strait is a narrow sea passage in Southeast Asia that separates the island of Timor from the Indonesian island of Wetar and forms part of the boundary between Indonesia and Timor-Leste.
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A.
Ombai Strait
Ombai Strait is a narrow sea passage in Southeast Asia that separates Timor Island from the Alor Archipelago and forms part of an important deep-water shipping and oceanographic route between the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
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B.
Makanrushi Strait
Makanrushi Strait is a sea passage in the Kuril Islands chain, separating the island of Makanrushi from its neighboring islands in the northwest Pacific Ocean.
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C.
Sumba Strait
Sumba Strait is a body of water in eastern Indonesia that separates Sumba Island from neighboring islands and connects parts of the Indian Ocean with the surrounding seas.
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D.
Friza Strait
Friza Strait is a sea passage located among Russia’s Kuril Islands in the northwest Pacific Ocean.
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E.
Lombok Strait
Lombok Strait is a deep, narrow waterway between the Indonesian islands of Bali and Lombok that serves as a major international shipping route and alternative passage to the nearby Strait of Malacca.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Wetar Strait Description of subject: Wetar Strait is a narrow sea passage in Southeast Asia that separates the island of Timor from the Indonesian island of Wetar and forms part of the boundary between Indonesia and Timor-Leste.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.