Greater Sunda Islands
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The Greater Sunda Islands are a major group of large islands in maritime Southeast Asia, including Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and Sulawesi, known for their rich biodiversity and dense human populations.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Greater Sunda Islands canonical | 30 |
| Sunda Islands | 8 |
| Sulawesi Islands | 2 |
| EasternJava | 1 |
| Greater Sunda Islands region | 1 |
| Sulawesi archipelago | 1 |
| Sundaland biodiversity hotspot | 1 |
| island of Java | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T184854 — 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: Greater Sunda Islands Context triple: [Java, partOf, Greater Sunda Islands]
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A.
Indonesian archipelago
The Indonesian archipelago is a vast chain of thousands of islands in Southeast Asia, stretching between the Indian and Pacific Oceans and forming the core territory of the nation of Indonesia.
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B.
Riau Islands
The Riau Islands are an Indonesian archipelago in the South China Sea known for their strategic location near Singapore and Malaysia, maritime trade routes, and growing tourism industry.
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C.
Sumatra
Sumatra is a large Indonesian island in western Indonesia known for its rich biodiversity, active volcanoes, and significant role in regional trade and history.
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D.
Celebes
Celebes, now known as Sulawesi, is a large, uniquely shaped island in Indonesia renowned for its diverse cultures, mountainous landscapes, and rich marine biodiversity.
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E.
Maluku Islands
The Maluku Islands are an Indonesian archipelago historically known as the Spice Islands, famed for their production of nutmeg, cloves, and other valuable spices that drew intense European colonial interest.
- 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: Greater Sunda Islands Target entity description: The Greater Sunda Islands are a major group of large islands in maritime Southeast Asia, including Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and Sulawesi, known for their rich biodiversity and dense human populations.
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A.
Indonesian archipelago
The Indonesian archipelago is a vast chain of thousands of islands in Southeast Asia, stretching between the Indian and Pacific Oceans and forming the core territory of the nation of Indonesia.
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B.
Riau Islands
The Riau Islands are an Indonesian archipelago in the South China Sea known for their strategic location near Singapore and Malaysia, maritime trade routes, and growing tourism industry.
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C.
Sumatra
Sumatra is a large Indonesian island in western Indonesia known for its rich biodiversity, active volcanoes, and significant role in regional trade and history.
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D.
Celebes
Celebes, now known as Sulawesi, is a large, uniquely shaped island in Indonesia renowned for its diverse cultures, mountainous landscapes, and rich marine biodiversity.
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E.
Maluku Islands
The Maluku Islands are an Indonesian archipelago historically known as the Spice Islands, famed for their production of nutmeg, cloves, and other valuable spices that drew intense European colonial interest.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Greater Sunda Islands Description of subject: The Greater Sunda Islands are a major group of large islands in maritime Southeast Asia, including Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and Sulawesi, known for their rich biodiversity and dense human populations.
Referenced by (45)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sunda Islands
this entity surface form:
Sunda Islands
this entity surface form:
Sundaland biodiversity hotspot
this entity surface form:
Greater Sunda Islands region
subject surface form:
Lembang Highlands
this entity surface form:
island of Java
this entity surface form:
Sunda Islands
this entity surface form:
Sunda Islands
this entity surface form:
Sunda Islands
this entity surface form:
Sunda Islands
subject surface form:
Java
this entity surface form:
Sunda Islands
this entity surface form:
Sunda Islands
this entity surface form:
Sulawesi archipelago
this entity surface form:
Sulawesi Islands
this entity surface form:
Sulawesi Islands