Saudi territorial waters
E586550
Saudi territorial waters are the maritime zones adjacent to Saudi Arabia’s coastline over which the kingdom exercises sovereign rights and jurisdiction under international law.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saudi Arabian maritime area | 1 |
| Saudi territorial waters canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6327049 — 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: Saudi territorial waters Context triple: [Commander of the Royal Saudi Naval Forces, hasJurisdictionOver, Saudi territorial waters]
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A.
Lebanese territorial waters
Lebanese territorial waters are the maritime zones off the coast of Lebanon over which the Lebanese state exercises sovereignty, including rights to regulate navigation, security, and resource exploitation.
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B.
Libyan territorial waters
Libyan territorial waters are the maritime zones adjacent to Libya’s coastline in the Mediterranean Sea where Libya exercises sovereign rights and control under international law.
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C.
Egyptian territorial waters
Egyptian territorial waters comprise the maritime zones under Egypt’s sovereignty in the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea, including key strategic areas such as the Gulf of Suez and approaches to the Suez Canal.
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D.
Syrian exclusive economic zone
The Syrian exclusive economic zone is a maritime area in the Eastern Mediterranean where Syria holds special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources under international law.
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E.
Australian territorial sea
The Australian territorial sea is the belt of coastal waters extending up to 12 nautical miles from Australia's baseline, within which Australia exercises full sovereignty subject to certain navigational rights for other states.
- 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: Saudi territorial waters Target entity description: Saudi territorial waters are the maritime zones adjacent to Saudi Arabia’s coastline over which the kingdom exercises sovereign rights and jurisdiction under international law.
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A.
Lebanese territorial waters
Lebanese territorial waters are the maritime zones off the coast of Lebanon over which the Lebanese state exercises sovereignty, including rights to regulate navigation, security, and resource exploitation.
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B.
Libyan territorial waters
Libyan territorial waters are the maritime zones adjacent to Libya’s coastline in the Mediterranean Sea where Libya exercises sovereign rights and control under international law.
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C.
Egyptian territorial waters
Egyptian territorial waters comprise the maritime zones under Egypt’s sovereignty in the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea, including key strategic areas such as the Gulf of Suez and approaches to the Suez Canal.
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D.
Syrian exclusive economic zone
The Syrian exclusive economic zone is a maritime area in the Eastern Mediterranean where Syria holds special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources under international law.
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E.
Australian territorial sea
The Australian territorial sea is the belt of coastal waters extending up to 12 nautical miles from Australia's baseline, within which Australia exercises full sovereignty subject to certain navigational rights for other states.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | territorial waters ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Saudi contiguous zone
ⓘ
Saudi exclusive economic zone ⓘ |
| borderWith |
Bahraini maritime zones
ⓘ
Egyptian maritime zones ⓘ
linked to:
Egyptian contiguous zone
Jordanian maritime zones ⓘ Kuwaiti maritime zones ⓘ Qatari maritime zones ⓘ Yemeni maritime zones ⓘ
linked to:
Yemeni exclusive economic zone
|
| contains |
offshore gas fields
ⓘ
offshore oil fields ⓘ |
| country | Saudi Arabia ⓘ |
| environmentalAuthority | Saudi National Center for Environmental Compliance ⓘ |
| governedBy | United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ⓘ |
| hasMaximumBreadth | 12 nautical miles ⓘ |
| hasRight | innocent passage of foreign vessels ⓘ |
| includeStrait | Strait of Tiran ⓘ |
| jurisdictionIncludes |
customs laws enforcement
ⓘ
fiscal laws enforcement ⓘ immigration laws enforcement ⓘ sanitary laws enforcement ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
Saudi maritime law
ⓘ
international law ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Arabian Gulf
ⓘ
linked to:
Persian Gulf
Persian Gulf ⓘ Red Sea ⓘ |
| locatedOnCoastOf | Saudi Arabia ⓘ |
| measuredFrom | baseline of Saudi Arabia ⓘ |
| partOf | Saudi maritime domain ⓘ |
| securityManagedBy |
Royal Saudi Naval Forces
ⓘ
linked to:
Saudi Arabian Navy
Saudi Border Guard ⓘ
linked to:
Saudi Border Guards
|
| sovereignRightsInclude |
environmental protection
ⓘ
fisheries regulation ⓘ navigation control ⓘ resource exploitation ⓘ |
| sovereigntyExercisedBy | Saudi Arabia ⓘ |
| strategicImportance |
access to major oil export routes
ⓘ
control of Red Sea shipping lanes ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
Saudi environmental regulations
ⓘ
Saudi fisheries regulations ⓘ Saudi security regulations ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial shipping
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ military operations ⓘ offshore energy production ⓘ |
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: Saudi territorial waters Description of subject: Saudi territorial waters are the maritime zones adjacent to Saudi Arabia’s coastline over which the kingdom exercises sovereign rights and jurisdiction under international law.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Saudi territorial waters