Madura Strait
E32620
Madura Strait is the body of water separating the island of Madura from northeastern Java in Indonesia, serving as an important local maritime passage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madura Strait canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T184864 — 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: Madura Strait Context triple: [Java, hasStrait, Madura Strait]
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A.
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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B.
Sunda Strait
The Sunda Strait is a narrow waterway in Indonesia that separates the islands of Java and Sumatra, connecting the Java Sea with the Indian Ocean.
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C.
Luzon Strait
The Luzon Strait is a strategically important body of water between Taiwan and the Philippines that connects the South China Sea with the Philippine Sea in the western Pacific Ocean.
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D.
Korea Strait
The Korea Strait is a narrow body of water between the Korean Peninsula and Japan that forms a key maritime passage linking the East China Sea with the Sea of Japan.
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E.
La Pérouse Strait
La Pérouse Strait is a narrow international waterway between Japan’s Hokkaido and Russia’s Sakhalin Island that links the Sea of Japan with the Sea of Okhotsk.
- 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: Madura Strait Target entity description: 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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A.
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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B.
Sunda Strait
The Sunda Strait is a narrow waterway in Indonesia that separates the islands of Java and Sumatra, connecting the Java Sea with the Indian Ocean.
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C.
Luzon Strait
The Luzon Strait is a strategically important body of water between Taiwan and the Philippines that connects the South China Sea with the Philippine Sea in the western Pacific Ocean.
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D.
Korea Strait
The Korea Strait is a narrow body of water between the Korean Peninsula and Japan that forms a key maritime passage linking the East China Sea with the Sea of Japan.
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E.
La Pérouse Strait
La Pérouse Strait is a narrow international waterway between Japan’s Hokkaido and Russia’s Sakhalin Island that links the Sea of Japan with the Sea of Okhotsk.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
body of water
ⓘ
strait ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Greater Surabaya metropolitan area
ⓘ
surface form:
Surabaya metropolitan area
north coast of East Java ⓘ south coast of Madura Island ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Indonesia ⓘ |
| connectsTo | Java Sea ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
coastal trade
ⓘ
small-scale fisheries ⓘ |
| hasIslandOnOneSide |
Java
ⓘ
Madura ⓘ |
| hasNavigationRole | important local maritime passage ⓘ |
| languageRegion |
Indonesian language
ⓘ
Madurese language ⓘ |
| locatedBetween |
Madura
ⓘ
northeastern Java ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
East Java
ⓘ
Maritime Southeast Asia ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| locatedInOcean |
Indian Ocean
ⓘ
surface form:
Indian Ocean basin
|
| nearCity | Surabaya ⓘ |
| nearIsland |
Java
ⓘ
Madura ⓘ |
| partOf |
Indonesian archipelagic waters
ⓘ
Java Sea ⓘ
surface form:
Java Sea region
|
| region | Java ⓘ |
| separates |
Java
ⓘ
Madura ⓘ |
| sovereignWatersOf | Indonesia ⓘ |
| usedFor |
coastal shipping
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ local 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: Madura Strait Description of subject: Madura Strait is the body of water separating the island of Madura from northeastern Java in Indonesia, serving as an important local maritime passage.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.