Northwest Passage
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The Northwest Passage is a historically significant sea route through the Arctic Ocean, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and long sought by explorers as a shorter path between Europe and Asia.
All labels observed (11)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T26280 — 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: Northwest Passage Context triple: [Henry Hudson, searchedFor, Northwest Passage]
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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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Hudson Strait
Hudson Strait is a large Arctic waterway in northeastern Canada that connects the Atlantic Ocean to Hudson Bay and serves as an important historical and modern shipping route.
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Drake Passage
Drake Passage is the turbulent body of water between South America's Cape Horn and Antarctica, known for linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and some of the roughest seas in the world.
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Straits of Mackinac
The Straits of Mackinac are a narrow waterway in the U.S. state of Michigan that connect Lake Michigan and Lake Huron and separate Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas.
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Strait of Magellan
The Strait of Magellan is a historically significant natural sea passage at the southern tip of South America, separating mainland Chile from Tierra del Fuego and providing a navigable route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
- 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: Northwest Passage Target entity description: The Northwest Passage is a historically significant sea route through the Arctic Ocean, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and long sought by explorers as a shorter path between Europe and Asia.
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A.
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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B.
Hudson Strait
Hudson Strait is a large Arctic waterway in northeastern Canada that connects the Atlantic Ocean to Hudson Bay and serves as an important historical and modern shipping route.
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C.
Drake Passage
Drake Passage is the turbulent body of water between South America's Cape Horn and Antarctica, known for linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and some of the roughest seas in the world.
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Straits of Mackinac
The Straits of Mackinac are a narrow waterway in the U.S. state of Michigan that connect Lake Michigan and Lake Huron and separate Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas.
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E.
Strait of Magellan
The Strait of Magellan is a historically significant natural sea passage at the southern tip of South America, separating mainland Chile from Tierra del Fuego and providing a navigable route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (66)
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: Northwest Passage Description of subject: The Northwest Passage is a historically significant sea route through the Arctic Ocean, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and long sought by explorers as a shorter path between Europe and Asia.
Referenced by (50)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Northwest Passage route system
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Northwest Passage system
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Northwest Passage system
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Northwest Passage expeditions
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The North-West Passage
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Canadian High Arctic waterways
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Northwest Passage voyages
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Northwest Passage region
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Northwest Passage region
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Arctic shipping route
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Canadian Northwest Passage shipping route
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Northwest Passage navigation