Yucatán Basin
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The Yucatán Basin is a deep oceanic basin in the northwestern Caribbean, lying between the Yucatán Peninsula, Cuba, and Central America, and forming part of the seafloor of the Caribbean Sea.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yucatán Basin canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T608694 — 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: Yucatán Basin Context triple: [Caribbean Sea, hasPart, Yucatán Basin]
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A.
Yucatán Peninsula
The Yucatán Peninsula is a large landmass in southeastern Mexico extending into the Caribbean, known for its Maya archaeological sites, cenotes, and tropical coastal ecosystems.
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B.
Guatemala Basin
The Guatemala Basin is a deep oceanic basin in the eastern Pacific Ocean off the coast of Central America, formed on the Cocos Plate and characterized by significant tectonic and volcanic activity.
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Venezuelan Basin
The Venezuelan Basin is a deep oceanic basin in the southern Caribbean, lying off the coasts of Venezuela and nearby islands and forming one of the major structural depressions of the Caribbean Sea.
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D.
Colombian Basin
The Colombian Basin is a deep oceanic basin in the southwestern Caribbean Sea, lying off the coasts of Colombia and Central America and forming one of the region’s major deep-water areas.
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E.
Valley of Mexico
The Valley of Mexico is a highland basin in central Mexico that historically hosted several major pre-Columbian civilizations and today contains the country’s largest urban concentration.
- 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: Yucatán Basin Target entity description: The Yucatán Basin is a deep oceanic basin in the northwestern Caribbean, lying between the Yucatán Peninsula, Cuba, and Central America, and forming part of the seafloor of the Caribbean Sea.
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A.
Yucatán Peninsula
The Yucatán Peninsula is a large landmass in southeastern Mexico extending into the Caribbean, known for its Maya archaeological sites, cenotes, and tropical coastal ecosystems.
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B.
Guatemala Basin
The Guatemala Basin is a deep oceanic basin in the eastern Pacific Ocean off the coast of Central America, formed on the Cocos Plate and characterized by significant tectonic and volcanic activity.
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C.
Venezuelan Basin
The Venezuelan Basin is a deep oceanic basin in the southern Caribbean, lying off the coasts of Venezuela and nearby islands and forming one of the major structural depressions of the Caribbean Sea.
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D.
Colombian Basin
The Colombian Basin is a deep oceanic basin in the southwestern Caribbean Sea, lying off the coasts of Colombia and Central America and forming one of the region’s major deep-water areas.
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E.
Valley of Mexico
The Valley of Mexico is a highland basin in central Mexico that historically hosted several major pre-Columbian civilizations and today contains the country’s largest urban concentration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Yucatán Basin Description of subject: The Yucatán Basin is a deep oceanic basin in the northwestern Caribbean, lying between the Yucatán Peninsula, Cuba, and Central America, and forming part of the seafloor of the Caribbean Sea.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.