Port of Aqaba
E449722
The Port of Aqaba is Jordan’s only seaport and a key Red Sea maritime hub for the country’s trade and naval operations.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Port of Aqaba canonical | 5 |
| Aqaba Naval Base | 1 |
| port of Aqaba | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4525492 — 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: Port of Aqaba Context triple: [Royal Jordanian Navy, primaryPort, Port of Aqaba]
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A.
Haifa Port
Haifa Port is a major seaport on Israel’s Mediterranean coast that has long served as a key commercial and transportation hub for the region.
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B.
Port of Ashdod
The Port of Ashdod is one of Israel’s largest and most important seaports, serving as a major hub for the country’s international trade on the Mediterranean coast.
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C.
Khor al-Zubair Port
Khor al-Zubair Port is a major commercial seaport in southern Iraq that serves as one of the key maritime gateways for the Basra region’s industrial and petrochemical exports.
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D.
Port of Shuaiba
The Port of Shuaiba is a major commercial and industrial seaport in Kuwait that serves as one of the country’s key maritime hubs for cargo and petrochemical exports.
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E.
Arish Port
Arish Port is a coastal seaport on the Mediterranean in Egypt’s North Sinai region, serving as a key hub for regional trade and maritime activities.
- 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: Port of Aqaba Target entity description: The Port of Aqaba is Jordan’s only seaport and a key Red Sea maritime hub for the country’s trade and naval operations.
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A.
Haifa Port
Haifa Port is a major seaport on Israel’s Mediterranean coast that has long served as a key commercial and transportation hub for the region.
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B.
Port of Ashdod
The Port of Ashdod is one of Israel’s largest and most important seaports, serving as a major hub for the country’s international trade on the Mediterranean coast.
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C.
Khor al-Zubair Port
Khor al-Zubair Port is a major commercial seaport in southern Iraq that serves as one of the key maritime gateways for the Basra region’s industrial and petrochemical exports.
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D.
Port of Shuaiba
The Port of Shuaiba is a major commercial and industrial seaport in Kuwait that serves as one of the country’s key maritime hubs for cargo and petrochemical exports.
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E.
Arish Port
Arish Port is a coastal seaport on the Mediterranean in Egypt’s North Sinai region, serving as a key hub for regional trade and maritime activities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
maritime transport hub
ⓘ
seaport ⓘ |
| cityServed |
Amman
ⓘ
Aqaba ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Indian Ocean shipping routes
ⓘ
Suez Canal ⓘ |
| country | Jordan ⓘ |
| handles |
bulk cargo
ⓘ
containerized cargo ⓘ general cargo ⓘ oil and petroleum products ⓘ passenger traffic ⓘ phosphates ⓘ |
| hasAccess |
inland logistics corridors of Jordan
ⓘ
road network of Jordan ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
bulk cargo terminal
ⓘ
container terminal ⓘ general cargo terminal ⓘ oil terminal ⓘ passenger terminal ⓘ phosphate terminal ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructure |
berths
ⓘ
cargo handling equipment ⓘ logistics facilities ⓘ storage facilities ⓘ |
| hasRole |
gateway for Jordan’s maritime trade
ⓘ
naval base area for Jordanian Navy ⓘ |
| is | Jordan’s only seaport ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Aqaba ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Gulf of Aqaba
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Red Sea ⓘ |
| near |
border of Egypt
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border of Israel ⓘ border of Saudi Arabia ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Aqaba Development Corporation
ⓘ
Aqaba Ports Corporation ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Government of Jordan ⓘ |
| partOf | Aqaba Special Economic Zone ⓘ |
| region | Middle East ⓘ |
| servesAs |
key maritime hub for Jordan’s naval operations
ⓘ
key maritime hub for Jordan’s trade ⓘ |
| strategicFor |
Jordanian export operations
ⓘ
Jordanian foreign trade ⓘ Jordanian import operations ⓘ |
| supports |
regional trade
ⓘ
transshipment activities ⓘ |
| waterway | Red Sea ⓘ |
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: Port of Aqaba Description of subject: The Port of Aqaba is Jordan’s only seaport and a key Red Sea maritime hub for the country’s trade and naval operations.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.