Kanmon Straits
E101126
Kanmon Straits is a narrow sea passage in southwestern Japan that separates the islands of Honshu and Kyushu and serves as an important shipping and transportation route.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kanmon Straits canonical | 16 |
| Strait of Shimonoseki | 3 |
| Kanmon Strait (between Sea of Japan and Seto Inland Sea) | 1 |
| Kanmon Straits area | 1 |
| Shimonoseki Strait | 1 |
| Straits of Shimonoseki | 1 |
| 関門海峡 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T679518 — 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: Kanmon Straits Context triple: [Kyushu, separatedBy, Kanmon Straits]
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A.
Tsugaru Strait
The Tsugaru Strait is a narrow body of water separating Japan’s Honshu and Hokkaido islands, serving as a key maritime passage between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean.
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B.
Korea Strait
The Korea Strait is a narrow body of water between the Korean Peninsula and Japan that forms a key maritime passage linking the East China Sea with the Sea of Japan.
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C.
Palk Strait
Palk Strait is a narrow stretch of sea between southeastern India and northern Sri Lanka, known for its shallow waters and significance as a maritime boundary.
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D.
Luzon Strait
The Luzon Strait is a strategically important body of water between Taiwan and the Philippines that connects the South China Sea with the Philippine Sea in the western Pacific Ocean.
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E.
Madura Strait
Madura Strait is the body of water separating the island of Madura from northeastern Java in Indonesia, serving as an important local maritime passage.
- 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: Kanmon Straits Target entity description: Kanmon Straits is a narrow sea passage in southwestern Japan that separates the islands of Honshu and Kyushu and serves as an important shipping and transportation route.
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A.
Tsugaru Strait
The Tsugaru Strait is a narrow body of water separating Japan’s Honshu and Hokkaido islands, serving as a key maritime passage between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean.
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B.
Korea Strait
The Korea Strait is a narrow body of water between the Korean Peninsula and Japan that forms a key maritime passage linking the East China Sea with the Sea of Japan.
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C.
Palk Strait
Palk Strait is a narrow stretch of sea between southeastern India and northern Sri Lanka, known for its shallow waters and significance as a maritime boundary.
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D.
Luzon Strait
The Luzon Strait is a strategically important body of water between Taiwan and the Philippines that connects the South China Sea with the Philippine Sea in the western Pacific Ocean.
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E.
Madura Strait
Madura Strait is the body of water separating the island of Madura from northeastern Java in Indonesia, serving as an important local maritime passage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Kanmon Straits Description of subject: Kanmon Straits is a narrow sea passage in southwestern Japan that separates the islands of Honshu and Kyushu and serves as an important shipping and transportation route.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Strait of Shimonoseki
this entity surface form:
関門海峡
this entity surface form:
Strait of Shimonoseki
subject surface form:
Yamaguchi Prefecture
this entity surface form:
Strait of Shimonoseki
this entity surface form:
Kanmon Strait (between Sea of Japan and Seto Inland Sea)
this entity surface form:
Shimonoseki Strait
this entity surface form:
Straits of Shimonoseki