Port of Darwin
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The Port of Darwin is a major deep-water seaport in northern Australia that serves as a strategic gateway for trade between Australia and Asia.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Port of Darwin canonical | 13 |
| Port of Darwin authority | 1 |
| Port of Darwin commercial facilities | 1 |
| Port of Darwin cruise ship facilities | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T484790 — 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 Darwin Context triple: [Darwin, hasPort, Port of Darwin]
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A.
Port Hedland
Port Hedland is a major iron ore export port town on the north coast of Western Australia, known for its large deep-water harbor and heavy industry.
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B.
Broome
Broome is a coastal resort town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, known for its pearling history, Cable Beach, and striking red sandstone landscapes.
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C.
Nambucca Heads
Nambucca Heads is a coastal town in New South Wales, Australia, known for its scenic river estuary, beaches, and role as a popular holiday destination.
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D.
Cairns
Cairns is a tropical coastal city in northeastern Australia known as a major gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and the Wet Tropics rainforest.
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E.
Port Macquarie
Port Macquarie is a coastal town in New South Wales, Australia, known for its beaches, koala population, and role as a popular holiday destination.
- 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 Darwin Target entity description: The Port of Darwin is a major deep-water seaport in northern Australia that serves as a strategic gateway for trade between Australia and Asia.
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A.
Port Hedland
Port Hedland is a major iron ore export port town on the north coast of Western Australia, known for its large deep-water harbor and heavy industry.
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B.
Broome
Broome is a coastal resort town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, known for its pearling history, Cable Beach, and striking red sandstone landscapes.
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C.
Nambucca Heads
Nambucca Heads is a coastal town in New South Wales, Australia, known for its scenic river estuary, beaches, and role as a popular holiday destination.
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D.
Cairns
Cairns is a tropical coastal city in northeastern Australia known as a major gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and the Wet Tropics rainforest.
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E.
Port Macquarie
Port Macquarie is a coastal town in New South Wales, Australia, known for its beaches, koala population, and role as a popular holiday destination.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
container port
ⓘ
deep-water port ⓘ seaport ⓘ |
| climateZone | tropical ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Adelaide–Darwin railway
ⓘ
Stuart Highway ⓘ |
| continent | Australia ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| distanceToAsia | closer to many Asian ports than southern Australian ports ⓘ |
| hasBerth |
East Arm Wharf
ⓘ
Fort Hill Wharf ⓘ Stokes Hill Wharf ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
bulk minerals export facilities
ⓘ
container terminal ⓘ cruise ship terminal ⓘ fuel storage and handling facilities ⓘ livestock export yards ⓘ roll-on/roll-off facilities ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
bulk cargo handling
ⓘ
commercial shipping port ⓘ container handling ⓘ cruise ship terminal ⓘ livestock export ⓘ naval support facility ⓘ |
| hasNavigationChannel | deep-water shipping channel ⓘ |
| leasedTo | Landbridge Group ⓘ |
| leaseDuration | 99 years ⓘ |
| leaseStartYear | 2015 ⓘ |
| leaseType | long-term lease ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Darwin, Northern Territory
ⓘ
linked to:
City of Darwin
|
| locatedInRegion | Northern Territory ⓘ |
| locatedOnBodyOfWater |
Beagle Gulf
ⓘ
Darwin Harbour ⓘ Timor Sea ⓘ |
| managingAuthority | Darwin Port ⓘ |
| nearbyCity | Darwin ⓘ |
| previousManagingAuthority | Darwin Port Corporation ⓘ |
| regionRole | primary commercial port for Northern Territory ⓘ |
| servesHinterland |
Northern Territory
ⓘ
northern Australia ⓘ |
| strategicImportance |
gateway for trade between Australia and Asia
ⓘ
strategic location close to Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| timeZone | Australian Central Standard Time ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Australian Border Force
ⓘ
Royal Australian Navy ⓘ |
| usedFor |
export of cattle and livestock
ⓘ
export of minerals from Northern Territory ⓘ import of fuel and general cargo ⓘ |
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 Darwin Description of subject: The Port of Darwin is a major deep-water seaport in northern Australia that serves as a strategic gateway for trade between Australia and Asia.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Port of Darwin