Atlantic trade routes
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Atlantic trade routes are major maritime shipping corridors across the Atlantic Ocean that connect ports in North America, Europe, Africa, and beyond for international trade and transport.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Atlantic trade routes canonical | 3 |
| Atlantic–Indian Ocean route | 1 |
| Caribbean trade routes | 1 |
| Iberian Atlantic routes | 1 |
| North Atlantic maritime routes | 1 |
| North Atlantic trade routes | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2943711 — 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: Atlantic trade routes Context triple: [Port of Thunder Bay, linkedTo, Atlantic trade routes]
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A.
South Atlantic trade routes
South Atlantic trade routes are key maritime corridors connecting South America, Africa, and Europe, vital for the movement of commercial shipping, resources, and naval operations across the South Atlantic Ocean.
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B.
Asia–Caribbean shipping routes
Asia–Caribbean shipping routes are major maritime trade corridors linking ports across East and Southeast Asia with destinations in the Caribbean basin for the transport of containerized and bulk cargo.
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C.
Mediterranean trade routes
Mediterranean trade routes were a network of maritime and coastal pathways that connected Europe, North Africa, and the Near East, facilitating extensive commercial, cultural, and disease transmission across the Mediterranean Sea.
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D.
Indian Ocean trade network
The Indian Ocean trade network was a vast, centuries-long maritime system connecting East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia through the exchange of goods, cultures, and ideas driven by monsoon winds.
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E.
Red Sea–Mediterranean–Indian Ocean shipping route
The Red Sea–Mediterranean–Indian Ocean shipping route is a major global maritime corridor linking Europe, Asia, and East Africa via the Suez Canal and adjacent seas, carrying a significant share of the world’s container and energy 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: Atlantic trade routes Target entity description: Atlantic trade routes are major maritime shipping corridors across the Atlantic Ocean that connect ports in North America, Europe, Africa, and beyond for international trade and transport.
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A.
South Atlantic trade routes
South Atlantic trade routes are key maritime corridors connecting South America, Africa, and Europe, vital for the movement of commercial shipping, resources, and naval operations across the South Atlantic Ocean.
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B.
Asia–Caribbean shipping routes
Asia–Caribbean shipping routes are major maritime trade corridors linking ports across East and Southeast Asia with destinations in the Caribbean basin for the transport of containerized and bulk cargo.
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C.
Mediterranean trade routes
Mediterranean trade routes were a network of maritime and coastal pathways that connected Europe, North Africa, and the Near East, facilitating extensive commercial, cultural, and disease transmission across the Mediterranean Sea.
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D.
Indian Ocean trade network
The Indian Ocean trade network was a vast, centuries-long maritime system connecting East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia through the exchange of goods, cultures, and ideas driven by monsoon winds.
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E.
Red Sea–Mediterranean–Indian Ocean shipping route
The Red Sea–Mediterranean–Indian Ocean shipping route is a major global maritime corridor linking Europe, Asia, and East Africa via the Suez Canal and adjacent seas, carrying a significant share of the world’s container and energy trade.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (79)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
maritime trade route network
ⓘ
shipping corridor system ⓘ |
| connects |
Africa
ⓘ
Arctic Ocean approaches ⓘ Caribbean ⓘ
surface form:
Caribbean region
Europe ⓘ Mediterranean Sea coast ⓘ
surface form:
Mediterranean Sea ports
North America ⓘ South America ⓘ |
| hasMajorPort |
Abidjan
ⓘ
Algeciras ⓘ Antwerp ⓘ Baltimore ⓘ Bergen ⓘ Bremen ⓘ Buenos Aires ⓘ Cape Town ⓘ Casablanca ⓘ Charleston ⓘ Dakar ⓘ Hamburg ⓘ Havana, Cuba ⓘ
surface form:
Havana
Houston ⓘ Kingston ⓘ Lagos ⓘ Las Palmas de Gran Canaria ⓘ
surface form:
Las Palmas
Le Havre ⓘ Lisbon ⓘ London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
Miami ⓘ Montreal ⓘ New York City ⓘ Norfolk ⓘ Philadelphia ⓘ Port of Boston ⓘ Port of Freetown ⓘ Port of Halifax ⓘ Port of Luanda ⓘ Port of Montevideo ⓘ Port of New Orleans ⓘ Porto do Recife ⓘ
surface form:
Port of Recife
Port of Rio de Janeiro ⓘ Port of Vigo ⓘ Reykjavík, Iceland ⓘ
surface form:
Reykjavík
Rotterdam ⓘ Santos ⓘ Savannah ⓘ Tangier Med ⓘ Tema ⓘ Tenerife ⓘ Valencia ⓘ |
| historicallyAssociatedWith |
Age of Exploration
ⓘ
surface form:
Age of Discovery
European colonial empires ⓘ
surface form:
European colonial expansion
Atlantic slave trade ⓘ
surface form:
transatlantic slave trade
triangular trade ⓘ |
| includesCorridor |
South Atlantic trade routes
ⓘ
surface form:
Brazil–West Africa route
North Atlantic route between North America and Western Europe ⓘ South Atlantic route between Europe and South America ⓘ US East Coast–Caribbean route ⓘ Europe–Africa transport network ⓘ
surface form:
West Africa–Europe route
|
| linkedTo |
Arctic shipping routes
ⓘ
Mediterranean Sea routes ⓘ Panama Canal ⓘ Suez Canal ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| regulatedBy | International Maritime Organization ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
North Atlantic weather systems
ⓘ
hurricane risk ⓘ tropical storms ⓘ |
| supports |
energy transport
ⓘ
food commodity trade ⓘ global supply chains ⓘ international trade ⓘ manufactured goods trade ⓘ |
| usedFor |
automobile transport
ⓘ
bulk cargo transport ⓘ container shipping ⓘ oil and gas transport ⓘ passenger shipping ⓘ |
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: Atlantic trade routes Description of subject: Atlantic trade routes are major maritime shipping corridors across the Atlantic Ocean that connect ports in North America, Europe, Africa, and beyond for international trade and transport.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Iberian Atlantic routes
this entity surface form:
Atlantic–Indian Ocean route
this entity surface form:
Caribbean trade routes
this entity surface form:
North Atlantic maritime routes
this entity surface form:
North Atlantic trade routes