Korea Strait
E11508
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.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Korea Strait canonical | 54 |
| Tsushima Strait | 12 |
| Korean Strait | 3 |
| Eastern Channel of Korea Strait | 1 |
| Strait of Korea | 1 |
| Western Channel of Korea Strait | 1 |
| 対馬海峡 | 1 |
| 대한해협 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T51455 — 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: Korea Strait Context triple: [Sea of Japan, connectedBy, Korea Strait]
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A.
Sea of Japan
The Sea of Japan is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean located between the Japanese archipelago, the Korean Peninsula, and Russia, known for its rich fisheries and strategic shipping routes.
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B.
East China Sea
The East China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean located between China, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, known for its busy shipping routes and significant geopolitical and economic importance.
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C.
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.
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D.
Osaka Bay
Osaka Bay is a shallow, industrially important inlet of the Seto Inland Sea in Japan, bordered by major cities like Osaka and Kobe and serving as a key hub for shipping and coastal development.
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E.
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.
- 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: Korea Strait Target entity description: 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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A.
Sea of Japan
The Sea of Japan is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean located between the Japanese archipelago, the Korean Peninsula, and Russia, known for its rich fisheries and strategic shipping routes.
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B.
East China Sea
The East China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean located between China, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, known for its busy shipping routes and significant geopolitical and economic importance.
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C.
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.
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D.
Northeast Passage
The Northeast Passage is a sea route along the northern coast of Eurasia, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans via Arctic waters and historically sought as a shorter path between Europe and Asia.
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E.
Osaka Bay
Osaka Bay is a shallow, industrially important inlet of the Seto Inland Sea in Japan, bordered by major cities like Osaka and Kobe and serving as a key hub for shipping and coastal development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
body of water
ⓘ
strait ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Honshu
ⓘ
Iki Island ⓘ Japan ⓘ Kyushu ⓘ South Korea ⓘ Tsushima Island ⓘ |
| climate | temperate maritime ⓘ |
| connects |
East China Sea
ⓘ
Sea of Japan ⓘ |
| flowsFrom | East China Sea ⓘ |
| flowsTo | Sea of Japan ⓘ |
| governedBy | United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ⓘ |
| hasAverageDepth | about 90 meters ⓘ |
| hasBiodiversity | rich marine life ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance |
route for cultural exchange between Korea and Japan
ⓘ
site of Russo-Japanese War naval operations ⓘ |
| hasMajorPortNearby |
Busan
ⓘ
Fukuoka ⓘ Kitakyushu ⓘ Shimonoseki ⓘ |
| hasOceanCurrent | Tsushima Current ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Korea Strait
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Channel of Korea Strait
Korea Strait self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Tsushima Strait
Korea Strait self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Western Channel of Korea Strait
|
| hasTrafficSeparationScheme | yes ⓘ |
| isPartOf | sea route between China, Korea, and Japan ⓘ |
| isShippingRouteFor |
bulk carriers
ⓘ
container ships ⓘ oil tankers ⓘ |
| knownAs |
Korea Strait
ⓘ
surface form:
Korean Strait
Korea Strait ⓘ
surface form:
Strait of Korea
|
| locatedIn |
East Asia
ⓘ
between Korea and Japan ⓘ |
| maximumDepth | about 227 meters ⓘ |
| minimumWidth | about 200 kilometers ⓘ |
| nameInJapanese |
Korea Strait
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
対馬海峡
|
| nameInKorean |
Korea Strait
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
대한해협
|
| partOf | Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| region | between Sea of Japan and East China Sea ⓘ |
| separates |
Japan
ⓘ
Korean Peninsula ⓘ |
| strategicImportance | major sea lane between East China Sea and Sea of Japan ⓘ |
| subjectTo | monsoon influence ⓘ |
| usedFor |
fishing
ⓘ
international shipping ⓘ naval navigation ⓘ |
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: Korea Strait Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (74)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tsushima Strait
this entity surface form:
Tsushima Strait
this entity surface form:
Western Channel of Korea Strait
this entity surface form:
Eastern Channel of Korea Strait
this entity surface form:
Korean Strait
this entity surface form:
Strait of Korea
this entity surface form:
対馬海峡
this entity surface form:
대한해협
this entity surface form:
Tsushima Strait
this entity surface form:
Tsushima Strait
this entity surface form:
Tsushima Strait
this entity surface form:
Tsushima Strait
subject surface form:
Busan–Jinhae Free Economic Zone