Clipperton Island
E331857
Clipperton Island is an uninhabited French coral atoll in the eastern Pacific Ocean, known for its remote location and unique marine ecosystem.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clipperton Island canonical | 3 |
| Clipperton Atoll | 1 |
| Clipperton Island maritime area | 1 |
| Clipperton Island region | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2680111 — 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: Clipperton Island Context triple: [French overseas territories, include, Clipperton Island]
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A.
Henderson Island
Henderson Island is a remote, uninhabited coral island in the South Pacific Ocean, renowned for its near-pristine ecosystem and status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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B.
San Nicolas Island
San Nicolas Island is a remote, windswept island off the coast of Southern California known for its U.S. Navy facilities and as the setting of the story "Island of the Blue Dolphins."
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C.
Revillagigedo Island
Revillagigedo Island is a large island in southeastern Alaska’s Alexander Archipelago, known for hosting the city of Ketchikan and its surrounding coastal rainforest environment.
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D.
Palmyra Atoll
Palmyra Atoll is a remote, uninhabited coral atoll in the central Pacific Ocean known for its rich marine biodiversity and status as a U.S. National Wildlife Refuge.
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E.
Guava Island
Guava Island is a 2019 musical film starring Donald Glover and Rihanna, blending music, romance, and political allegory on a fictional Caribbean island.
- 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: Clipperton Island Target entity description: Clipperton Island is an uninhabited French coral atoll in the eastern Pacific Ocean, known for its remote location and unique marine ecosystem.
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A.
Henderson Island
Henderson Island is a remote, uninhabited coral island in the South Pacific Ocean, renowned for its near-pristine ecosystem and status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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B.
San Nicolas Island
San Nicolas Island is a remote, windswept island off the coast of Southern California known for its U.S. Navy facilities and as the setting of the story "Island of the Blue Dolphins."
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C.
Revillagigedo Island
Revillagigedo Island is a large island in southeastern Alaska’s Alexander Archipelago, known for hosting the city of Ketchikan and its surrounding coastal rainforest environment.
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D.
Palmyra Atoll
Palmyra Atoll is a remote, uninhabited coral atoll in the central Pacific Ocean known for its rich marine biodiversity and status as a U.S. National Wildlife Refuge.
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E.
Guava Island
Guava Island is a 2019 musical film starring Donald Glover and Rihanna, blending music, romance, and political allegory on a fictional Caribbean island.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coral atoll
ⓘ
overseas minor territory ⓘ uninhabited island ⓘ |
| administeredBy |
France
ⓘ
French Ministry of Overseas France ⓘ |
| arbitrationAwardedTo | France ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| disputeResolvedBy | international arbitration in 1931 ⓘ |
| distanceToNearestMainland | over 1,000 kilometers from the Mexican coast ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Clipperton Atoll
ⓘ
linked to:
Clipperton Island
Île de la Passion ⓘ |
| hasArea | about 6 square kilometers ⓘ |
| hasCapital | none ⓘ |
| hasClimate | tropical oceanic climate ⓘ |
| hasEcosystem |
coral reef ecosystem
ⓘ
tropical marine ecosystem ⓘ |
| hasExclusiveEconomicZoneArea | about 435,000 square kilometers ⓘ |
| hasFauna |
crabs
ⓘ
reef fish ⓘ seabird colonies ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
central brackish lagoon
ⓘ
encircling coral reef ⓘ guano deposits ⓘ |
| hasFlora |
coconut palms
ⓘ
sparse vegetation ⓘ |
| hasGeologicalType | coral atoll surrounding a lagoon ⓘ |
| hasHighestPoint | about 29 meters above sea level ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalClaim |
claimed by France
ⓘ
formerly disputed by Mexico ⓘ |
| hasHumanPresence |
occasional amateur radio expeditions
ⓘ
occasional military visits ⓘ occasional scientific expeditions ⓘ |
| hasLagoonArea | about 7 square kilometers ⓘ |
| hasLargestSettlement | none ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| hasPermanentPopulation | false ⓘ |
| hasTimeZone | UTC−08:00 ⓘ |
| isRemote | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
extreme isolation
ⓘ
important seabird breeding grounds ⓘ unique marine biodiversity ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Pacific Ocean
ⓘ
eastern Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| locatedInExclusiveEconomicZoneOf | France ⓘ |
| namedAfter | John Clipperton ⓘ |
| partOf |
French overseas territories
ⓘ
French possessions in the Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| sovereignState | France ⓘ |
| territorialStatus | French possession with no permanent civilian population ⓘ |
| uninhabited | true ⓘ |
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: Clipperton Island Description of subject: Clipperton Island is an uninhabited French coral atoll in the eastern Pacific Ocean, known for its remote location and unique marine ecosystem.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Clipperton Island
linked to: Clipperton Island
linked to: Clipperton Island