Tokara Strait
E119201
Tokara Strait is a body of water in southern Japan that separates the Tokara Islands from the Amami Islands, forming part of the boundary between the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tokara Strait canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T775401 — 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: Tokara Strait Context triple: [Higashi Shina Kai, hasStrait, Tokara Strait]
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A.
Kanmon Straits
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Lombok Strait
Lombok Strait is a deep, narrow waterway between the Indonesian islands of Bali and Lombok that serves as a major international shipping route and alternative passage to the nearby Strait of Malacca.
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E.
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.
- 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: Tokara Strait Target entity description: Tokara Strait is a body of water in southern Japan that separates the Tokara Islands from the Amami Islands, forming part of the boundary between the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
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A.
Kanmon Straits
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Lombok Strait
Lombok Strait is a deep, narrow waterway between the Indonesian islands of Bali and Lombok that serves as a major international shipping route and alternative passage to the nearby Strait of Malacca.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
body of water
ⓘ
strait ⓘ |
| connectsBodyOfWater |
East China Sea
ⓘ
Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| hasGeopoliticalSignificance | maritime boundary between East China Sea and Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| hasIslandGroupOnOneSide | Tokara Islands ⓘ |
| hasIslandGroupOnOtherSide | Amami Islands ⓘ |
| hasNavigationRole | sea route between Kyushu and Okinawa region ⓘ |
| isInExclusiveEconomicZoneOf | Japan ⓘ |
| languageOfToponym | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
western Japan
ⓘ
surface form:
southern Japan
|
| locatedInBodyOfWater |
East China Sea
ⓘ
Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Ryukyu Islands
ⓘ
surface form:
Ryukyu Islands region
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| locatedNear |
Amami Islands
ⓘ
Tokara Islands ⓘ |
| locatedNorthOf |
Okinawa Island
ⓘ
surface form:
Okinawa Islands
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| locatedSouthOf | Kyushu ⓘ |
| ocean | Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| partOf |
Japanese archipelago maritime area
ⓘ
boundary between the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| sea | East China Sea ⓘ |
| separates |
Amami Islands
ⓘ
Tokara Islands ⓘ |
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: Tokara Strait Description of subject: Tokara Strait is a body of water in southern Japan that separates the Tokara Islands from the Amami Islands, forming part of the boundary between the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.