Cocos Basin
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The Cocos Basin is a deep oceanic basin in the eastern Pacific Ocean, located off Central America and associated with the tectonically active Cocos Plate.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cocos Basin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2305775 — 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: Cocos Basin Context triple: [Cocos Ridge, separates, Cocos Basin]
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A.
Wilkinson Basin
Wilkinson Basin is a deep, central submarine basin in the Gulf of Maine that plays a key role in the region’s ocean circulation and sediment deposition.
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B.
Evolution Basin
Evolution Basin is a high-elevation glacial valley in California’s Sierra Nevada, renowned for its chain of alpine lakes, dramatic granite peaks, and location along the John Muir Trail.
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C.
Tasman Basin
The Tasman Basin is a deep oceanic basin on the seafloor between Australia and New Zealand, forming a major structural and sedimentary feature of the Tasman Sea.
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D.
Bonaparte Basin
Bonaparte Basin is a large offshore sedimentary basin off northern Australia known for its significant oil and gas resources.
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E.
Parece Vela Basin
Parece Vela Basin is an oceanic basin in the western Pacific Ocean associated with the Philippine Sea Plate and known for its complex tectonic and volcanic features.
- 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: Cocos Basin Target entity description: The Cocos Basin is a deep oceanic basin in the eastern Pacific Ocean, located off Central America and associated with the tectonically active Cocos Plate.
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A.
Wilkinson Basin
Wilkinson Basin is a deep, central submarine basin in the Gulf of Maine that plays a key role in the region’s ocean circulation and sediment deposition.
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B.
Evolution Basin
Evolution Basin is a high-elevation glacial valley in California’s Sierra Nevada, renowned for its chain of alpine lakes, dramatic granite peaks, and location along the John Muir Trail.
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C.
Tasman Basin
The Tasman Basin is a deep oceanic basin on the seafloor between Australia and New Zealand, forming a major structural and sedimentary feature of the Tasman Sea.
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D.
Bonaparte Basin
Bonaparte Basin is a large offshore sedimentary basin off northern Australia known for its significant oil and gas resources.
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E.
Parece Vela Basin
Parece Vela Basin is an oceanic basin in the western Pacific Ocean associated with the Philippine Sea Plate and known for its complex tectonic and volcanic features.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
oceanic basin
ⓘ
submarine basin ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Cocos Plate ⓘ |
| formedBy | oceanic crustal processes ⓘ |
| geologicalFeatureType | deep-sea basin ⓘ |
| hasEnvironment | deep-marine ⓘ |
| hasTectonicActivityType |
crustal deformation
ⓘ
seismic activity ⓘ |
| isBelowSeaLevel | true ⓘ |
| isInOcean | Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Cocos Plate region
ⓘ
linked to:
Cocos Plate
Cocos Plate tectonic province ⓘ |
| isRelatedTo | Middle America Trench ⓘ |
| isSubjectOfStudyIn |
marine geology
ⓘ
oceanography ⓘ plate tectonics ⓘ |
| isTectonicallyActive | true ⓘ |
| isUnderlainBy | oceanic crust of the Cocos Plate ⓘ |
| liesEastOf | open Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| liesWestOf | Central America ⓘ |
| locatedIn | eastern Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| locatedOffCoastOf | Central America ⓘ |
| partOf | Pacific Ocean seafloor ⓘ |
| tectonicSetting |
convergent margin region
ⓘ
subduction-related environment ⓘ |
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: Cocos Basin Description of subject: The Cocos Basin is a deep oceanic basin in the eastern Pacific Ocean, located off Central America and associated with the tectonically active Cocos Plate.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.