St. Lawrence Island

E80139

island populated place

St. Lawrence Island is a large, sparsely populated island in the Bering Sea, known for its predominantly Siberian Yupik communities and its location between Alaska and Russia.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
St. Lawrence Island canonical	10
St. Lawrence Island area	1
St. Lawrence Island, Alaska	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T573620 — 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: St. Lawrence Island
Context triple: [Bering Sea, contains, St. Lawrence Island]

A. Nunivak Island
Nunivak Island is a large, remote island in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska, known for its predominantly Central Alaskan Yup’ik population, traditional subsistence lifestyle, and unique cultural heritage.
B. Kodiak Island
Kodiak Island is a large island in Alaska known for its rugged wilderness, rich Alutiiq Indigenous culture, and abundant wildlife including the famous Kodiak brown bears.
C. Little Diomede Island
Little Diomede Island is a small, remote Alaskan island in the Bering Strait, known for its Inupiat community and its proximity to Russia’s Big Diomede Island across the International Date Line.
D. Pribilof Islands
The Pribilof Islands are a remote group of volcanic islands in the Bering Sea, known for their large Aleut community and vast northern fur seal rookeries.
E. Big Diomede Island
Big Diomede Island is a Russian-owned island in the Bering Strait, notable for lying just west of the International Date Line opposite Alaska’s Little Diomede Island.
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: St. Lawrence Island
Target entity description: St. Lawrence Island is a large, sparsely populated island in the Bering Sea, known for its predominantly Siberian Yupik communities and its location between Alaska and Russia.

A. Nunivak Island
Nunivak Island is a large, remote island in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska, known for its predominantly Central Alaskan Yup’ik population, traditional subsistence lifestyle, and unique cultural heritage.
B. Kodiak Island
Kodiak Island is a large island in Alaska known for its rugged wilderness, rich Alutiiq Indigenous culture, and abundant wildlife including the famous Kodiak brown bears.
C. Little Diomede Island
Little Diomede Island is a small, remote Alaskan island in the Bering Strait, known for its Inupiat community and its proximity to Russia’s Big Diomede Island across the International Date Line.
D. Pribilof Islands
The Pribilof Islands are a remote group of volcanic islands in the Bering Sea, known for their large Aleut community and vast northern fur seal rookeries.
E. Big Diomede Island
Big Diomede Island is a Russian-owned island in the Bering Strait, notable for lying just west of the International Date Line opposite Alaska’s Little Diomede Island.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	island ⓘ populated place ⓘ
administrativeDivision	State of Alaska ⓘ linked to: Alaska
borderingWaterBody	Bering Sea ⓘ
climate	maritime climate ⓘ polar climate ⓘ
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
demographics	predominantly Siberian Yupik population ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Siberian Yupik ⓘ linked to: Central Siberian Yupik
governedAs	part of Alaska Native village corporations’ lands ⓘ
hasCommunity	Gambell ⓘ Savoonga ⓘ
hasCommunityType	rural ⓘ
hasCulturalPractice	marine mammal hunting ⓘ traditional Yupik subsistence lifestyle ⓘ
hasCulturalRegion	Arctic ⓘ linked to: Arctic region Subarctic ⓘ
hasFeature	permafrost ⓘ tundra vegetation ⓘ
hasIndigenousLanguage	Siberian Yupik language ⓘ linked to: Yupik
hasIndigenousNameLanguage	Siberian Yupik ⓘ linked to: Central Siberian Yupik
hasIndigenousPeople	Yupik ⓘ
hasPrimaryEconomicActivity	subsistence fishing ⓘ subsistence hunting ⓘ subsistence whaling ⓘ
hasWildlife	seabirds ⓘ seals ⓘ walrus ⓘ whales ⓘ
locatedBetween	Alaska ⓘ Russia ⓘ
locatedIn	Alaska ⓘ Bering Sea ⓘ United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
locatedInTimeZone	Alaska Time Zone ⓘ
majorSettlement	Gambell ⓘ Savoonga ⓘ
marineRegion	Bering Strait region ⓘ linked to: Chukchi Peninsula
ocean	Pacific Ocean ⓘ
offshoreFrom	Alaska ⓘ
partOf	Nome Census Area ⓘ
populationDensity	sparsely populated ⓘ
region	Western Alaska ⓘ linked to: southwestern Alaska
relativeLocation	southeast of Chukotka Peninsula ⓘ west of mainland Alaska ⓘ
sea	Bering Sea ⓘ
strategicLocation	between North America and Asia ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (12)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bering Sea → contains → St. Lawrence Island ⓘ

Nome Census Area → contains → St. Lawrence Island ⓘ

Nome Census Area → locatedOn → St. Lawrence Island ⓘ

Central Siberian Yupik → primaryRegion → St. Lawrence Island ⓘ

Savoonga → locatedOn → St. Lawrence Island ⓘ

Savoonga → isPartOf → St. Lawrence Island ⓘ

St. Lawrence Island Yupik → ethnicGroupOf → St. Lawrence Island ⓘ

St. Lawrence Island Yupik → primaryLocation → St. Lawrence Island, Alaska ⓘ

linked to: St. Lawrence Island

Gambell → locatedOn → St. Lawrence Island ⓘ

Yupiit → traditionalRegion → St. Lawrence Island ⓘ

United States–Russia maritime boundary → near → St. Lawrence Island ⓘ

Old Bering Sea culture → locatedIn → St. Lawrence Island area ⓘ