Atlantic Ocean
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The Atlantic Ocean is the world's second-largest ocean, separating the Americas from Europe and Africa and serving as a major route for global climate regulation, trade, and exploration.
All labels observed (33)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T756 — 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.
Target entity: Atlantic Ocean Context triple: [United States of America, borderOcean, Atlantic Ocean]
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Hudson River
The Hudson River is a major waterway in eastern New York State that flows south past cities like Albany and New York City before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at New York Harbor.
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Douglas
Douglas is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
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North Atlantic Treaty
The North Atlantic Treaty is the 1949 founding agreement that created the NATO military alliance, establishing collective defense commitments among Western nations during the early Cold War.
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United States of America
The United States of America is a large federal republic in North America known for its global political, economic, military, and cultural influence.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States, serving as the nation’s political center and home to its federal government institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Atlantic Ocean Target entity description: The Atlantic Ocean is the world's second-largest ocean, separating the Americas from Europe and Africa and serving as a major route for global climate regulation, trade, and exploration.
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A.
Hudson River
The Hudson River is a major waterway in eastern New York State that flows south past cities like Albany and New York City before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at New York Harbor.
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B.
Cape Cod
Cape Cod is a hook-shaped peninsula in southeastern Massachusetts known for its sandy beaches, maritime villages, and popular summer tourism.
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C.
Douglas
Douglas is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
North Atlantic Treaty
The North Atlantic Treaty is the 1949 founding agreement that created the NATO military alliance, establishing collective defense commitments among Western nations during the early Cold War.
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E.
United States of America
The United States of America is a large federal republic in North America known for its global political, economic, military, and cultural influence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (69)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
body of water
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geographical feature ⓘ ocean ⓘ |
| borderedByCountry |
Brazil
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Canada ⓘ France ⓘ Nigeria ⓘ Portugal ⓘ South Africa ⓘ Spain ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| boundedBy |
Africa
ⓘ
Arctic Ocean to the north ⓘ Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ Southern Ocean ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Ocean to the south
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| connectedTo |
Arctic Ocean
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Baltic Sea ⓘ Black Sea via the Mediterranean Sea ⓘ Caribbean Sea ⓘ Gulf of Mexico ⓘ Indian Ocean ⓘ Mediterranean Sea ⓘ North Sea ⓘ Pacific Ocean via the Drake Passage ⓘ Southern Ocean ⓘ |
| containsFeature |
Amazon River mouth
ⓘ
Bermuda Triangle ⓘ Congo River mouth ⓘ Mid-Atlantic Ridge ⓘ Sargasso Sea ⓘ |
| crossedBy | Equator ⓘ |
| hasApproximateArea |
about 106,000,000 square kilometers
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about 41,000,000 square miles ⓘ |
| hasAverageDepth |
about 11,962 feet
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about 3,646 meters ⓘ |
| hasDeepestPoint | Puerto Rico Trench ⓘ |
| hasMajorCurrent |
Benguela Current
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Brazil Current ⓘ Canary Current ⓘ Gulf Stream ⓘ Labrador Current ⓘ Gulf Stream ⓘ
surface form:
North Atlantic Drift
|
| hasMaximumDepth |
about 27,480 feet
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about 8,376 meters ⓘ |
| hasNotableIslandGroup |
Portugal
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surface form:
Azores
Canary Islands ⓘ Cape Verde Islands ⓘ Caribbean ⓘ
surface form:
Caribbean Islands
|
| hasNotableSea | Sargasso Sea ⓘ |
| hasPart |
North Atlantic area
ⓘ
surface form:
North Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
South Atlantic Ocean
|
| hasSalinityRange | about 33 to 37 parts per thousand ⓘ |
| historicallyImportantFor |
Age of Exploration
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European colonization of the Americas ⓘ transatlantic slave trade ⓘ |
| isMajorRouteFor |
international trade
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transatlantic shipping ⓘ |
| isSegmentOf | global ocean conveyor belt ⓘ |
| locatedOnPlanet | Earth ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Atlas from Greek mythology ⓘ |
| partOf | World Ocean ⓘ |
| playsRoleIn |
global climate regulation
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thermohaline circulation ⓘ |
| rankBySize | second-largest ocean on Earth ⓘ |
| separates |
Americas from Africa
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Americas from Europe ⓘ |
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.
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.
Subject: Atlantic Ocean Description of subject: The Atlantic Ocean is the world's second-largest ocean, separating the Americas from Europe and Africa and serving as a major route for global climate regulation, trade, and exploration.
Referenced by (8,001)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.