Belawan Port
E122011
Belawan Port is a major seaport and key maritime gateway for the city of Medan and the surrounding region in North Sumatra, Indonesia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Belawan Port canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1063332 — 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: Belawan Port Context triple: [Medan, hasPort, Belawan Port]
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A.
Port of Tanjung Emas
The Port of Tanjung Emas is the main seaport serving Semarang and Central Java, Indonesia, handling regional cargo and passenger traffic along the northern coast of Java.
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B.
Tanjung Priok
Tanjung Priok is Indonesia’s busiest and largest seaport, serving as the main maritime gateway to Jakarta and the island of Java.
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C.
Kamarajar Port
Kamarajar Port is a major deep-water seaport near Chennai on India’s east coast, serving as a key hub for cargo and industrial maritime trade.
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D.
Labuan
Labuan is a federal territory of Malaysia comprising a main island and several smaller ones, known as an offshore financial center and duty-free port off the coast of Borneo.
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E.
Port of Nacala
The Port of Nacala is a deep-water seaport in northern Mozambique that serves as a major regional hub for maritime trade and transport in southeastern Africa.
- 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: Belawan Port Target entity description: Belawan Port is a major seaport and key maritime gateway for the city of Medan and the surrounding region in North Sumatra, Indonesia.
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A.
Port of Tanjung Emas
The Port of Tanjung Emas is the main seaport serving Semarang and Central Java, Indonesia, handling regional cargo and passenger traffic along the northern coast of Java.
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B.
Tanjung Priok
Tanjung Priok is Indonesia’s busiest and largest seaport, serving as the main maritime gateway to Jakarta and the island of Java.
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C.
Kamarajar Port
Kamarajar Port is a major deep-water seaport near Chennai on India’s east coast, serving as a key hub for cargo and industrial maritime trade.
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D.
Labuan
Labuan is a federal territory of Malaysia comprising a main island and several smaller ones, known as an offshore financial center and duty-free port off the coast of Borneo.
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E.
Port of Nacala
The Port of Nacala is a deep-water seaport in northern Mozambique that serves as a major regional hub for maritime trade and transport in southeastern Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
container port
ⓘ
seaport ⓘ |
| climate | tropical rainforest climate ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Strait of Malacca
ⓘ
surface form:
Strait of Malacca shipping lanes
domestic Indonesian ports ⓘ international shipping routes ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
cargo handling
ⓘ
container handling ⓘ export-import hub ⓘ passenger services ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructure |
bulk cargo facilities
ⓘ
container terminal ⓘ customs facilities ⓘ multipurpose terminal ⓘ passenger terminal ⓘ warehousing facilities ⓘ |
| hasNearbyAirport | Kualanamu International Airport ⓘ |
| hasUNLocode | IDBLW ⓘ |
| isMajorPortFor |
agricultural commodities
ⓘ
manufactured goods ⓘ palm oil exports ⓘ rubber exports ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Indonesian ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Binjai
ⓘ
surface form:
Belawan
Medan ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | North Sumatra ⓘ |
| locatedInArchipelago | Greater Sunda Islands ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | UTC+07:00 ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Medan
ⓘ
surface form:
Medan city center
|
| locatedOn | east coast of Sumatra ⓘ |
| locatedOnBodyOfWater | Strait of Malacca ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Pelindo I ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Pelindo I ⓘ |
| partOf |
Port of Indonesia network
ⓘ
national logistics network of Indonesia ⓘ |
| regionServed |
North Sumatra hinterland
ⓘ
Sumatra ⓘ |
| serves |
Medan
ⓘ
North Sumatra ⓘ |
| servesAs |
key maritime gateway for North Sumatra
ⓘ
maritime gateway for Medan ⓘ |
| strategicImportance |
gateway to Strait of Malacca
ⓘ
key node in Indonesia’s western maritime trade ⓘ |
| transportLinks |
rail connections to Medan
ⓘ
road connections to Medan ⓘ |
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: Belawan Port Description of subject: Belawan Port is a major seaport and key maritime gateway for the city of Medan and the surrounding region in North Sumatra, Indonesia.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.