Straits of Johor
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The Straits of Johor is a narrow channel of water separating Singapore from the southern coast of Peninsular Malaysia, serving as an important maritime and transportation corridor.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Straits of Johor canonical | 44 |
| Johor Strait | 18 |
| Strait of Johor | 2 |
| Johor Strait region | 1 |
| Singapore (at its mouth via Straits of Johor) | 1 |
| Straits of Johor area | 1 |
| Straits of Johor coastline | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T188746 — 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: Straits of Johor Context triple: [Singapore, borderingWaterBody, Straits of Johor]
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A.
Madura Strait
Madura Strait is the body of water separating the island of Madura from northeastern Java in Indonesia, serving as an important local maritime passage.
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B.
Sunda Strait
The Sunda Strait is a narrow waterway in Indonesia that separates the islands of Java and Sumatra, connecting the Java Sea with the Indian Ocean.
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C.
Bali Strait
The Bali Strait is a narrow body of water separating the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali, serving as an important local shipping and ferry route.
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D.
Luzon Strait
The Luzon Strait is a strategically important body of water between Taiwan and the Philippines that connects the South China Sea with the Philippine Sea in the western Pacific Ocean.
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E.
Korea Strait
The Korea Strait is a narrow body of water between the Korean Peninsula and Japan that forms a key maritime passage linking the East China Sea with the Sea of Japan.
- 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: Straits of Johor Target entity description: The Straits of Johor is a narrow channel of water separating Singapore from the southern coast of Peninsular Malaysia, serving as an important maritime and transportation corridor.
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A.
Madura Strait
Madura Strait is the body of water separating the island of Madura from northeastern Java in Indonesia, serving as an important local maritime passage.
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B.
Sunda Strait
The Sunda Strait is a narrow waterway in Indonesia that separates the islands of Java and Sumatra, connecting the Java Sea with the Indian Ocean.
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C.
Bali Strait
The Bali Strait is a narrow body of water separating the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali, serving as an important local shipping and ferry route.
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D.
Luzon Strait
The Luzon Strait is a strategically important body of water between Taiwan and the Philippines that connects the South China Sea with the Philippine Sea in the western Pacific Ocean.
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E.
Korea Strait
The Korea Strait is a narrow body of water between the Korean Peninsula and Japan that forms a key maritime passage linking the East China Sea with the Sea of Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Straits of Johor Description of subject: The Straits of Johor is a narrow channel of water separating Singapore from the southern coast of Peninsular Malaysia, serving as an important maritime and transportation corridor.
Referenced by (68)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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JB
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JB
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subject linked to:
Second Link Expressway (as an additional crossing)
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subject linked to:
southern Peninsular Malaysia