Manitou Passage
E408442
Manitou Passage is a key Lake Michigan shipping channel located between the Sleeping Bear Dunes mainland and the Manitou Islands, known for its navigational hazards and historic maritime significance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Manitou Passage canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4045063 — 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: Manitou Passage Context triple: [South Manitou Island Lighthouse, servesWaterway, Manitou Passage]
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A.
Eggemoggin Reach
Eggemoggin Reach is a scenic tidal strait and popular sailing passage along the coast of Maine, known for its picturesque views and classic wooden boat traffic.
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B.
Nottawasaga Bay
Nottawasaga Bay is a sub-bay of southern Georgian Bay on Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada, known for its sandy shores and popular recreational waterfront.
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C.
Tongass Narrows
Tongass Narrows is a coastal waterway in southeastern Alaska known for its busy marine traffic, seaplane operations, and role as the main channel adjacent to the city of Ketchikan.
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D.
Leschenault Inlet
Leschenault Inlet is a coastal estuarine lagoon in Western Australia known for its wetlands, birdlife, and recreational activities.
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E.
Catherine Canal
Catherine Canal was the former name of the Griboyedov Canal, a historic waterway running through central Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- 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: Manitou Passage Target entity description: Manitou Passage is a key Lake Michigan shipping channel located between the Sleeping Bear Dunes mainland and the Manitou Islands, known for its navigational hazards and historic maritime significance.
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A.
Eggemoggin Reach
Eggemoggin Reach is a scenic tidal strait and popular sailing passage along the coast of Maine, known for its picturesque views and classic wooden boat traffic.
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B.
Nottawasaga Bay
Nottawasaga Bay is a sub-bay of southern Georgian Bay on Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada, known for its sandy shores and popular recreational waterfront.
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C.
Tongass Narrows
Tongass Narrows is a coastal waterway in southeastern Alaska known for its busy marine traffic, seaplane operations, and role as the main channel adjacent to the city of Ketchikan.
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D.
Leschenault Inlet
Leschenault Inlet is a coastal estuarine lagoon in Western Australia known for its wetlands, birdlife, and recreational activities.
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E.
Catherine Canal
Catherine Canal was the former name of the Griboyedov Canal, a historic waterway running through central Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Manitou Passage Description of subject: Manitou Passage is a key Lake Michigan shipping channel located between the Sleeping Bear Dunes mainland and the Manitou Islands, known for its navigational hazards and historic maritime significance.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.