Caroline Plate
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The Caroline Plate is a small tectonic plate in the western Pacific Ocean, located north of New Guinea and interacting with several surrounding plates in a complex boundary zone.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Caroline Plate canonical | 18 |
| Caroline Plate microplate | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T318628 — 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: Caroline Plate Context triple: [Indo-Australian Plate, hasBoundaryWith, Caroline Plate]
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Caroline
Caroline von Humboldt was a German salonnière, art patron, and intellectual known for her influential role in Berlin’s cultural and scholarly life in the early 19th century.
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B.
Pauletta
Pauletta is a feminine given name, typically considered a diminutive or variant of Paula or Pauline.
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C.
Charlotte Mint
Charlotte Mint was a 19th-century branch of the U.S. Mint in North Carolina that primarily produced gold coins from locally mined gold before the Civil War.
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D.
Cailliau
Cailliau is the surname of Robert Cailliau, a Belgian computer scientist known for co-developing the World Wide Web.
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E.
Crescent
Crescent is a long-distance Amtrak passenger train that runs between New York City and New Orleans, serving major cities along the U.S. East Coast and Deep South.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Caroline Plate Target entity description: The Caroline Plate is a small tectonic plate in the western Pacific Ocean, located north of New Guinea and interacting with several surrounding plates in a complex boundary zone.
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A.
Caroline
Caroline von Humboldt was a German salonnière, art patron, and intellectual known for her influential role in Berlin’s cultural and scholarly life in the early 19th century.
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B.
Pauletta
Pauletta is a feminine given name, typically considered a diminutive or variant of Paula or Pauline.
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C.
Charlotte Mint
Charlotte Mint was a 19th-century branch of the U.S. Mint in North Carolina that primarily produced gold coins from locally mined gold before the Civil War.
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D.
Cailliau
Cailliau is the surname of Robert Cailliau, a Belgian computer scientist known for co-developing the World Wide Web.
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E.
Crescent
Crescent is a long-distance Amtrak passenger train that runs between New York City and New Orleans, serving major cities along the U.S. East Coast and Deep South.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
microplate
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tectonic plate ⓘ |
| boundedBy |
Eauripik Rise
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New Guinea Trench ⓘ
surface form:
Kilinailau Trench
New Guinea Trench ⓘ Sorol Trough ⓘ New Guinea Trench ⓘ
surface form:
West Melanesian Trench
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| containsFeature |
Caroline Ridge
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East Caroline Basin ⓘ Eauripik Rise ⓘ Sorol Trough ⓘ West Caroline Basin ⓘ |
| hasBoundaryType |
convergent boundary
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divergent boundary ⓘ transform boundary ⓘ |
| hasCrustType | oceanic crust ⓘ |
| hasMotionRelativeTo | Pacific Plate ⓘ |
| hasMotionType | generally westward relative motion ⓘ |
| hasSeismicity | frequent earthquakes along its boundaries ⓘ |
| hasTectonicSetting | complex plate boundary zone ⓘ |
| hasVolcanismType | intra-oceanic arc volcanism ⓘ |
| interactsWith |
Indo-Australian Plate
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surface form:
Australian Plate
North Bismarck Plate ⓘ Pacific Plate ⓘ Pacific–Caroline boundary zone ⓘ Philippine Sea Plate ⓘ South Bismarck Plate ⓘ |
| isSubductedBeneath |
North Bismarck Plate
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Philippine Sea Plate ⓘ North Bismarck Plate ⓘ
surface form:
South Bismarck Plate
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| locatedIn | western Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| locatedNorthOf | New Guinea ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Caroline Islands
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surface form:
Caroline Islands region
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| overlies |
West Caroline Basin
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surface form:
Caroline Basin
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| partOf |
Pacific Ocean
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surface form:
Pacific Ocean basin
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| studiedInDiscipline |
marine geology
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plate tectonics ⓘ seismology ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Caroline Plate Description of subject: The Caroline Plate is a small tectonic plate in the western Pacific Ocean, located north of New Guinea and interacting with several surrounding plates in a complex boundary zone.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.