Sulu Sea
E62188
The Sulu Sea is a marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, located between the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia, known for its rich marine biodiversity and important shipping routes.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sulu Sea canonical | 172 |
| Sulu Sea region | 3 |
| Sulu Sea basin | 2 |
| Sulu Sea area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T431491 — 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: Sulu Sea Context triple: [Malaysia, borderedBySea, Sulu Sea]
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A.
Andaman Sea
The Andaman Sea is a marginal sea of the eastern Indian Ocean, lying between the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Myanmar, Thailand, and the Malay Peninsula, known for its rich marine biodiversity and popular tropical diving destinations.
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B.
Solomon Sea
The Solomon Sea is a marginal sea of the southwestern Pacific Ocean located between Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, known for its deep basins and significant role in World War II naval battles.
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C.
Celebes Sea
The Celebes Sea is a deep marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, located between the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia, known for its rich marine biodiversity and important shipping routes.
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D.
Philippine Sea
The Philippine Sea is a large marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, lying east of the Philippines and south of Japan, known for its deep ocean trenches and strategic importance.
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E.
South China Sea
The South China Sea is a marginal sea in Southeast Asia known for its strategic shipping lanes, rich fisheries, and significant oil and gas reserves, as well as ongoing territorial disputes among neighboring countries.
- 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: Sulu Sea Target entity description: The Sulu Sea is a marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, located between the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia, known for its rich marine biodiversity and important shipping routes.
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A.
Andaman Sea
The Andaman Sea is a marginal sea of the eastern Indian Ocean, lying between the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Myanmar, Thailand, and the Malay Peninsula, known for its rich marine biodiversity and popular tropical diving destinations.
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B.
Solomon Sea
The Solomon Sea is a marginal sea of the southwestern Pacific Ocean located between Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, known for its deep basins and significant role in World War II naval battles.
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C.
Celebes Sea
The Celebes Sea is a deep marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, located between the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia, known for its rich marine biodiversity and important shipping routes.
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D.
Philippine Sea
The Philippine Sea is a large marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, lying east of the Philippines and south of Japan, known for its deep ocean trenches and strategic importance.
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E.
South China Sea
The South China Sea is a marginal sea in Southeast Asia known for its strategic shipping lanes, rich fisheries, and significant oil and gas reserves, as well as ongoing territorial disputes among neighboring countries.
- 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: Sulu Sea Description of subject: The Sulu Sea is a marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, located between the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia, known for its rich marine biodiversity and important shipping routes.
Referenced by (178)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.