Australian territorial sea
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The Australian territorial sea is the belt of coastal waters extending up to 12 nautical miles from Australia's baseline, within which Australia exercises full sovereignty subject to certain navigational rights for other states.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Australian maritime zones | 1 |
| Australian territorial sea canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3303264 — 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: Australian territorial sea Context triple: [Australian Exclusive Economic Zone, beyond, Australian territorial sea]
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A.
United States territorial waters
United States territorial waters are the maritime zones adjacent to the U.S. coast over which the United States exercises sovereignty and jurisdiction, typically extending up to 12 nautical miles from its shorelines.
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B.
U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone
The U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone is a vast maritime area extending from the U.S. coastline in which the United States has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.
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C.
U.S. contiguous zone
The U.S. contiguous zone is a band of ocean adjacent to U.S. territorial waters where the United States exercises limited control to prevent and punish infringements of its customs, fiscal, immigration, and sanitary laws.
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D.
Australian Exclusive Economic Zone
The Australian Exclusive Economic Zone is a vast maritime area surrounding Australia over which it has special rights to explore, exploit, conserve, and manage marine resources under international law.
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E.
United Kingdom territorial waters
United Kingdom territorial waters are the maritime areas extending from the UK’s coastline over which it exercises full sovereignty and jurisdiction, including parts of surrounding seas such as the North Sea, English Channel, Irish Sea, and Atlantic approaches.
- 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: Australian territorial sea Target entity description: The Australian territorial sea is the belt of coastal waters extending up to 12 nautical miles from Australia's baseline, within which Australia exercises full sovereignty subject to certain navigational rights for other states.
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A.
United States territorial waters
United States territorial waters are the maritime zones adjacent to the U.S. coast over which the United States exercises sovereignty and jurisdiction, typically extending up to 12 nautical miles from its shorelines.
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B.
U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone
The U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone is a vast maritime area extending from the U.S. coastline in which the United States has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.
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C.
U.S. contiguous zone
The U.S. contiguous zone is a band of ocean adjacent to U.S. territorial waters where the United States exercises limited control to prevent and punish infringements of its customs, fiscal, immigration, and sanitary laws.
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D.
Australian Exclusive Economic Zone
The Australian Exclusive Economic Zone is a vast maritime area surrounding Australia over which it has special rights to explore, exploit, conserve, and manage marine resources under international law.
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E.
United Kingdom territorial waters
United Kingdom territorial waters are the maritime areas extending from the UK’s coastline over which it exercises full sovereignty and jurisdiction, including parts of surrounding seas such as the North Sea, English Channel, Irish Sea, and Atlantic approaches.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
maritime zone
ⓘ
territorial sea ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Australian contiguous zone
ⓘ
Australian Exclusive Economic Zone ⓘ
surface form:
Australian exclusive economic zone
|
| appliesTo |
Ashmore and Cartier Islands
ⓘ
Australian Antarctic Territory ⓘ Australian mainland coast ⓘ Christmas Island ⓘ Cocos (Keeling) Islands ⓘ Coral Sea Islands Territory ⓘ Heard Island and McDonald Islands ⓘ Norfolk Island ⓘ Tasmania ⓘ |
| coastalState | Australia ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| enforcementJurisdiction |
Australian Border Force
ⓘ
surface form:
Australian border protection authorities
Australian Border Force ⓘ
surface form:
Australian customs authorities
Australian Defence Force ⓘ
surface form:
Australian naval forces
|
| governedByPrinciple | full sovereignty of coastal state ⓘ |
| includes |
Australian mainland coastal waters
ⓘ
Tasmanian coastal waters ⓘ coastal waters of Australian external territories ⓘ |
| includesSovereigntyOver |
airspace above territorial sea
ⓘ
seabed ⓘ subsoil ⓘ water column ⓘ |
| innerLimit | Australian baseline ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
Maritime Powers Act 2013 (Cth)
ⓘ
Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973 (Cth) ⓘ United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ⓘ |
| maximumBreadth | 12 nautical miles ⓘ |
| measuredFrom | Australian baseline ⓘ |
| navigationRightsOfOtherStates |
innocent passage of foreign ships
ⓘ
transit passage in straits used for international navigation ⓘ |
| outerLimitDistanceFromBaseline | 12 nautical miles ⓘ |
| partOf | Australian maritime jurisdiction ⓘ |
| regulatedBy |
Australian law
ⓘ
surface form:
Australian federal legislation
|
| relatedConcept |
Australian continental shelf
ⓘ
Australian Exclusive Economic Zone ⓘ
surface form:
Australian exclusive economic zone
Australian territorial sea self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Australian maritime zones
|
| sovereigntyExercisedBy | Commonwealth of Australia ⓘ |
| status | recognized under international law ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
international maritime law
ⓘ
right of innocent passage ⓘ right of transit passage through straits used for international navigation ⓘ |
| usedFor | maritime boundary delimitation with neighbouring states ⓘ |
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: Australian territorial sea Description of subject: The Australian territorial sea is the belt of coastal waters extending up to 12 nautical miles from Australia's baseline, within which Australia exercises full sovereignty subject to certain navigational rights for other states.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Australian maritime zones