Akashi Strait
E348727
The Akashi Strait is a narrow waterway in Japan separating Awaji Island from the mainland of Honshu and is spanned by the famous Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, one of the world’s longest suspension bridges.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Akashi Strait canonical | 5 |
| Akashi Kaikyō Strait | 3 |
| Akashi Kaikyō | 1 |
| 明石海峡 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3306330 — 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: Akashi Strait Context triple: [Sakishima Islands (Osaka), hasViewOf, Akashi Strait]
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A.
Kanmon Straits
Kanmon Straits is a narrow sea passage in southwestern Japan that separates the islands of Honshu and Kyushu and serves as an important shipping and transportation route.
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B.
Tsugaru Strait
The Tsugaru Strait is a narrow body of water separating Japan’s Honshu and Hokkaido islands, serving as a key maritime passage between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean.
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C.
Tokara Strait
Tokara Strait is a body of water in southern Japan that separates the Tokara Islands from the Amami Islands, forming part of the boundary between the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
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D.
Uraga Channel
Uraga Channel is the strait at the mouth of Tokyo Bay that serves as a key maritime gateway between the bay and the open Pacific Ocean.
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E.
Nemuro Strait
Nemuro Strait is a narrow body of water separating Japan’s Hokkaido from the southern Kuril Islands, known for its rich marine life and geopolitical significance.
- 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: Akashi Strait Target entity description: The Akashi Strait is a narrow waterway in Japan separating Awaji Island from the mainland of Honshu and is spanned by the famous Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, one of the world’s longest suspension bridges.
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A.
Kanmon Straits
Kanmon Straits is a narrow sea passage in southwestern Japan that separates the islands of Honshu and Kyushu and serves as an important shipping and transportation route.
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B.
Tsugaru Strait
The Tsugaru Strait is a narrow body of water separating Japan’s Honshu and Hokkaido islands, serving as a key maritime passage between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean.
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C.
Tokara Strait
Tokara Strait is a body of water in southern Japan that separates the Tokara Islands from the Amami Islands, forming part of the boundary between the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
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D.
Uraga Channel
Uraga Channel is the strait at the mouth of Tokyo Bay that serves as a key maritime gateway between the bay and the open Pacific Ocean.
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E.
Nemuro Strait
Nemuro Strait is a narrow body of water separating Japan’s Hokkaido from the southern Kuril Islands, known for its rich marine life and geopolitical significance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | strait ⓘ |
| adjacentCity | Akashi ⓘ |
| adjacentIsland | Awaji Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climateRegion | temperate ⓘ |
| connectsBodyOfWater |
Harima-nada Sea
ⓘ
Osaka Bay ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| crossedBy |
Honshu–Shikoku Bridge Project
ⓘ
surface form:
Honshū–Shikoku Bridge Project
|
| geologicalSetting | tectonically active area ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
deep central channel
ⓘ
rapid tidal flows ⓘ |
| hasJapaneseName |
Akashi Strait
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
明石海峡
|
| knownFor |
heavy maritime traffic
ⓘ
strong tidal currents ⓘ |
| locatedBetween |
Awaji Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kobe, Hyogo, Japan ⓘ
surface form:
Kobe
|
| locatedInBodyOfWater | Seto Inland Sea ⓘ |
| locatedInPrefecture | Hyōgo Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maximumDepth | about 110 metres ⓘ |
| nameRomanization |
Akashi Strait
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Akashi Kaikyō
|
| navigationStatus | major shipping lane ⓘ |
| nearbyBridgeType | suspension bridge ⓘ |
| ocean | Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| partOf |
Honshu–Shikoku corridor
ⓘ
surface form:
Honshū–Shikoku route
Seto Inland Sea ⓘ |
| region | Kansai region ⓘ |
| separates |
Awaji Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Honshu ⓘ |
| spannedBy |
Akashi Kaikyo Bridge
ⓘ
surface form:
Akashi Kaikyō Bridge
|
| width | approximately 4 kilometres ⓘ |
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: Akashi Strait Description of subject: The Akashi Strait is a narrow waterway in Japan separating Awaji Island from the mainland of Honshu and is spanned by the famous Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, one of the world’s longest suspension bridges.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Akashi Kaikyō Strait
this entity surface form:
明石海峡
this entity surface form:
Akashi Kaikyō