Food and Agriculture Organization fishing area 21
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Food and Agriculture Organization fishing area 21 is the FAO-designated fishing region covering the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, used for managing and reporting marine fisheries in that part of the world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Food and Agriculture Organization fishing area 21 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4271170 — 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: Food and Agriculture Organization fishing area 21 Context triple: [Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization area, relatedTo, Food and Agriculture Organization fishing area 21]
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A.
FAO Major Fishing Area 41
FAO Major Fishing Area 41 is a designated Atlantic Ocean fishing region defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization for the management and statistical monitoring of marine fisheries.
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B.
FAO Major Fishing Area 31
FAO Major Fishing Area 31 is a designated FAO fishing region in the western Atlantic Ocean used for the management and statistical monitoring of marine fisheries.
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C.
FAO Major Fishing Area 34
FAO Major Fishing Area 34 is an internationally designated Atlantic Ocean fishing zone encompassing the marine waters off West Africa, including the Gulf of Guinea.
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D.
FAO Major Fishing Area 47
FAO Major Fishing Area 47 is the FAO-designated statistical fishing region covering the southeastern Atlantic Ocean off the coasts of southern Africa.
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E.
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization area
The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization area is an internationally managed marine region in the northwest Atlantic Ocean where member countries coordinate the conservation and sustainable use of fishery resources.
- 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: Food and Agriculture Organization fishing area 21 Target entity description: Food and Agriculture Organization fishing area 21 is the FAO-designated fishing region covering the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, used for managing and reporting marine fisheries in that part of the world.
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A.
FAO Major Fishing Area 41
FAO Major Fishing Area 41 is a designated Atlantic Ocean fishing region defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization for the management and statistical monitoring of marine fisheries.
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B.
FAO Major Fishing Area 31
FAO Major Fishing Area 31 is a designated FAO fishing region in the western Atlantic Ocean used for the management and statistical monitoring of marine fisheries.
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C.
FAO Major Fishing Area 34
FAO Major Fishing Area 34 is an internationally designated Atlantic Ocean fishing zone encompassing the marine waters off West Africa, including the Gulf of Guinea.
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D.
FAO Major Fishing Area 47
FAO Major Fishing Area 47 is the FAO-designated statistical fishing region covering the southeastern Atlantic Ocean off the coasts of southern Africa.
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E.
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization area
The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization area is an internationally managed marine region in the northwest Atlantic Ocean where member countries coordinate the conservation and sustainable use of fishery resources.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
FAO major fishing area
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fishing area ⓘ marine region ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
marine invertebrate fisheries
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wild marine fish stocks ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Arctic Ocean
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FAO fishing area 27 ⓘ FAO fishing area 31 ⓘ Greenland ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| classificationSystem | FAO Major Fishing Areas for Statistical Purposes ⓘ |
| coordinateSystem | geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) ⓘ |
| coversEnvironment |
continental shelf areas
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high seas areas ⓘ marine waters ⓘ |
| definedBy |
FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Division
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linked to:
FAO Fishery and Aquaculture Department
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| hasAbbreviation | FAO area 21 ⓘ |
| hasFAOCode | 21 ⓘ |
| hasName |
Northwest Atlantic
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linked to:
Northwest Atlantic Ocean
|
| hasPurpose |
standardization of global fishery statistics
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support to international fisheries agreements ⓘ |
| hasSubdivision |
subarea 0
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subarea 1 ⓘ subarea 2 ⓘ subarea 3 ⓘ subarea 4 ⓘ subarea 5 ⓘ subarea 6 ⓘ subarea 7 ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfBoundary | conventional statistical boundary ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Northern Hemisphere
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Northwest Atlantic Ocean ⓘ Western Hemisphere ⓘ |
| notIdenticalTo |
Exclusive Economic Zones
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political maritime boundaries ⓘ |
| partOf |
Atlantic Ocean
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FAO fishing area system ⓘ |
| regulates | marine capture fisheries ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization
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international fisheries management ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
FAO fisheries statistical yearbooks
ⓘ
linked to:
FAO fisheries statistics
regional fish stock assessments ⓘ |
| use |
fisheries management
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fisheries statistics reporting ⓘ marine resource assessment ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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linked to:
Food and Agriculture Organization
|
| usedSince | 20th century ⓘ |
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: Food and Agriculture Organization fishing area 21 Description of subject: Food and Agriculture Organization fishing area 21 is the FAO-designated fishing region covering the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, used for managing and reporting marine fisheries in that part of the world.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization area
→
relatedTo
→
Food and Agriculture Organization fishing area 21
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