Singapore–Malaysia border
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The Singapore–Malaysia border is the international boundary separating the city-state of Singapore from Peninsular Malaysia, running across both land crossings and maritime areas including the Straits of Johor.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Malaysia–Singapore border | 2 |
| Singapore–Malaysia border canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1561311 — 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: Singapore–Malaysia border Context triple: [Straits of Johor, isPartOf, Singapore–Malaysia border]
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A.
Straits of Johor
The Straits of Johor is a narrow channel of water separating Singapore from the southern coast of Peninsular Malaysia, serving as an important maritime and transportation corridor.
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B.
Thai–Myanmar border
The Thai–Myanmar border is a long, often porous frontier region marked by ethnic diversity, conflict-driven displacement, and extensive humanitarian and refugee activities.
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C.
Cross Border Xpress
Cross Border Xpress is a privately operated pedestrian skybridge and terminal facility that allows ticketed airline passengers to directly access Tijuana International Airport from the United States.
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D.
Johor Lama
Johor Lama was a historic fortified riverine settlement that served as an important political and trading center of the Johor Sultanate in the Malay Peninsula.
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E.
Singapore Strait
The Singapore Strait is a busy maritime waterway in Southeast Asia that connects the Strait of Malacca to the South China Sea and serves as a crucial shipping route for global trade.
- 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: Singapore–Malaysia border Target entity description: The Singapore–Malaysia border is the international boundary separating the city-state of Singapore from Peninsular Malaysia, running across both land crossings and maritime areas including the Straits of Johor.
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A.
Straits of Johor
The Straits of Johor is a narrow channel of water separating Singapore from the southern coast of Peninsular Malaysia, serving as an important maritime and transportation corridor.
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B.
Thai–Myanmar border
The Thai–Myanmar border is a long, often porous frontier region marked by ethnic diversity, conflict-driven displacement, and extensive humanitarian and refugee activities.
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C.
Cross Border Xpress
Cross Border Xpress is a privately operated pedestrian skybridge and terminal facility that allows ticketed airline passengers to directly access Tijuana International Airport from the United States.
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D.
Johor Lama
Johor Lama was a historic fortified riverine settlement that served as an important political and trading center of the Johor Sultanate in the Malay Peninsula.
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E.
Singapore Strait
The Singapore Strait is a busy maritime waterway in Southeast Asia that connects the Strait of Malacca to the South China Sea and serves as a crucial shipping route for global trade.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Singapore–Malaysia border Description of subject: The Singapore–Malaysia border is the international boundary separating the city-state of Singapore from Peninsular Malaysia, running across both land crossings and maritime areas including the Straits of Johor.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Malaysia–Singapore border
this entity surface form:
Malaysia–Singapore border