Sumba Strait
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Sumba Strait is a body of water in eastern Indonesia that separates Sumba Island from neighboring islands and connects parts of the Indian Ocean with the surrounding seas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sumba Strait canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1384868 — 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: Sumba Strait Context triple: [Sumba, borderedBy, Sumba Strait]
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A.
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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B.
Sape Strait
Sape Strait is a narrow body of water in eastern Indonesia that separates the islands of Sumbawa and Komodo and serves as an important passage between the Flores Sea and the Indian Ocean.
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C.
Bali Strait
The Bali Strait is a narrow body of water separating the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali, serving as an important local shipping and ferry route.
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D.
Madura Strait
Madura Strait is the body of water separating the island of Madura from northeastern Java in Indonesia, serving as an important local maritime passage.
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E.
Makassar Strait
The Makassar Strait is a major sea passage in Indonesia that separates the islands of Borneo and Sulawesi and forms part of an important shipping route between the Pacific and Indian 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: Sumba Strait Target entity description: Sumba Strait is a body of water in eastern Indonesia that separates Sumba Island from neighboring islands and connects parts of the Indian Ocean with the surrounding seas.
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A.
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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B.
Sape Strait
Sape Strait is a narrow body of water in eastern Indonesia that separates the islands of Sumbawa and Komodo and serves as an important passage between the Flores Sea and the Indian Ocean.
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C.
Bali Strait
The Bali Strait is a narrow body of water separating the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali, serving as an important local shipping and ferry route.
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D.
Madura Strait
Madura Strait is the body of water separating the island of Madura from northeastern Java in Indonesia, serving as an important local maritime passage.
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E.
Makassar Strait
The Makassar Strait is a major sea passage in Indonesia that separates the islands of Borneo and Sulawesi and forms part of an important shipping route between the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
body of water
ⓘ
strait ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Flores
ⓘ
surface form:
Flores Island coast
Savu Sea islands coasts ⓘ Sumba Island coast ⓘ |
| connects |
Flores Sea
ⓘ
Indian Ocean ⓘ Savu Sea ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction | Indonesian territorial waters ⓘ |
| hasPart | shipping lanes ⓘ |
| locatedBetween |
Flores
ⓘ
surface form:
Flores Island
Sumba ⓘ
surface form:
Sumba Island
|
| locatedIn |
Indonesian archipelago
ⓘ
Lesser Sunda Islands ⓘ
surface form:
Lesser Sunda Islands region
Maritime Southeast Asia ⓘ eastern Indonesia ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Lesser Sunda Islands ⓘ |
| partOf |
Indian Ocean Region
ⓘ
surface form:
Indian Ocean region
Indonesian seas ⓘ |
| separates |
Flores
ⓘ
surface form:
Flores Island
Savu Sea islands ⓘ Sumba ⓘ
surface form:
Sumba Island
|
| usedFor | regional maritime transport ⓘ |
| waterBodyType | marine strait ⓘ |
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: Sumba Strait Description of subject: Sumba Strait is a body of water in eastern Indonesia that separates Sumba Island from neighboring islands and connects parts of the Indian Ocean with the surrounding seas.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.