Flores Sea
E102318
The Flores Sea is a marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, located in Indonesia between the islands of Flores, Sulawesi, and Sumbawa, and known for its deep basins and rich marine biodiversity.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flores Sea canonical | 52 |
| Flores Sea and Banda Sea | 1 |
| Flores Sea basin | 1 |
| Flores Sea region | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T629971 — 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: Flores Sea Context triple: [Celebes, borderedBy, Flores Sea]
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A.
Timor Sea
The Timor Sea is a tropical marginal sea in the eastern Indian Ocean, lying between Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and northern Australia, known for its rich offshore oil and gas reserves.
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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.
Bali Sea
The Bali Sea is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean located between the islands of Bali and Sulawesi in Indonesia, known for its rich marine biodiversity and popular dive sites.
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D.
Banda Sea
The Banda Sea is a deep, tectonically active marginal sea in the eastern Indonesian archipelago, known for its complex basins, volcanic islands, and rich marine biodiversity.
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E.
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.
- 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: Flores Sea Target entity description: The Flores Sea is a marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, located in Indonesia between the islands of Flores, Sulawesi, and Sumbawa, and known for its deep basins and rich marine biodiversity.
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A.
Timor Sea
The Timor Sea is a tropical marginal sea in the eastern Indian Ocean, lying between Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and northern Australia, known for its rich offshore oil and gas reserves.
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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.
Bali Sea
The Bali Sea is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean located between the islands of Bali and Sulawesi in Indonesia, known for its rich marine biodiversity and popular dive sites.
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D.
Banda Sea
The Banda Sea is a deep, tectonically active marginal sea in the eastern Indonesian archipelago, known for its complex basins, volcanic islands, and rich marine biodiversity.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
marginal sea
ⓘ
sea ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Indonesia ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Adonara Island
ⓘ
surface form:
Adonara
Alor ⓘ Flores ⓘ Komodo ⓘ Lembata ⓘ Pantar ⓘ Celebes ⓘ
surface form:
Sulawesi
Sumbawa ⓘ |
| climate | tropical ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Banda Sea
ⓘ
Java Sea ⓘ Makassar Strait ⓘ Savu Sea ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| governingCountry | Indonesia ⓘ |
| hasBiodiversity |
corals
ⓘ
marine mammals ⓘ reef fish ⓘ sea turtles ⓘ tropical marine species ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
fisheries
ⓘ
shipping ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
coral reef ecosystems
ⓘ
deep sea basins ⓘ island arcs ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Coral Triangle
ⓘ
surface form:
Coral Triangle region
|
| knownFor |
coral reefs
ⓘ
deep basins ⓘ marine tourism ⓘ rich marine biodiversity ⓘ |
| locatedBetween |
Lesser Sunda Islands and Sulawesi
ⓘ
island of Flores and island of Sulawesi ⓘ island of Flores and island of Sumbawa ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
western Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| marineEcoregion |
Lesser Sunda Islands
ⓘ
surface form:
Lesser Sunda Ecoregion
|
| oceanographicRegion | Australasian Mediterranean Sea ⓘ |
| partOf |
Indonesian seas
ⓘ
Maritime Southeast Asia ⓘ Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| region |
Nusa Tenggara
ⓘ
Wallacea ⓘ |
| salinity | oceanic ⓘ |
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: Flores Sea Description of subject: The Flores Sea is a marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, located in Indonesia between the islands of Flores, Sulawesi, and Sumbawa, and known for its deep basins and rich marine biodiversity.
Referenced by (55)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Wallace Line
this entity surface form:
Flores Sea region
subject surface form:
Eastern Indonesia
this entity surface form:
Flores Sea and Banda Sea