Kii Strait
E243909
Kii Strait is a narrow body of water in Japan that separates Honshu from Shikoku and connects the Pacific Ocean with the Inland Sea.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kii Strait canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2213898 — 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: Kii Strait Context triple: [Kii Channel, hasAlternativeName, Kii Strait]
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A.
Nemuro Strait
Nemuro Strait is a narrow body of water separating Japan’s Hokkaido from the southern Kuril Islands, known for its rich marine life and geopolitical significance.
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B.
Sōya Strait
Sōya Strait is the narrow sea passage between Japan’s Hokkaido and Russia’s Sakhalin Island, serving as a key shipping route connecting the Sea of Japan with the Sea of Okhotsk.
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C.
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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D.
Palk Strait
Palk Strait is a narrow stretch of sea between southeastern India and northern Sri Lanka, known for its shallow waters and significance as a maritime boundary.
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E.
Tokara Strait
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.
- 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: Kii Strait Target entity description: Kii Strait is a narrow body of water in Japan that separates Honshu from Shikoku and connects the Pacific Ocean with the Inland Sea.
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A.
Nemuro Strait
Nemuro Strait is a narrow body of water separating Japan’s Hokkaido from the southern Kuril Islands, known for its rich marine life and geopolitical significance.
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B.
Sōya Strait
Sōya Strait is the narrow sea passage between Japan’s Hokkaido and Russia’s Sakhalin Island, serving as a key shipping route connecting the Sea of Japan with the Sea of Okhotsk.
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C.
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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D.
Palk Strait
Palk Strait is a narrow stretch of sea between southeastern India and northern Sri Lanka, known for its shallow waters and significance as a maritime boundary.
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E.
Tokara Strait
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Kii Strait Description of subject: Kii Strait is a narrow body of water in Japan that separates Honshu from Shikoku and connects the Pacific Ocean with the Inland Sea.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.