United States territorial waters
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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.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| United States territorial waters canonical | 2 |
| U.S. territorial sea | 1 |
| United States coastal waters | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T383852 — 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: United States territorial waters Context triple: [United States airspace, extendsOver, United States territorial waters]
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A.
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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B.
U.S. Pacific territories
U.S. Pacific territories are a group of American island jurisdictions in the Pacific Ocean, such as Guam and American Samoa, that extend U.S. political, military, and maritime presence across the region.
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C.
United States territories
United States territories are regions under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United States that are not part of any state, such as Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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D.
United States airspace
United States airspace is the controlled portion of the atmosphere above U.S. territory and territorial waters where U.S. authorities regulate and manage all civil and military aviation activities.
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E.
U.S. Caribbean territories
The U.S. Caribbean territories are American island jurisdictions in the Caribbean Sea, such as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, that extend U.S. political, economic, and maritime presence into the region.
- 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: United States territorial waters Target entity description: 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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A.
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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B.
U.S. Pacific territories
U.S. Pacific territories are a group of American island jurisdictions in the Pacific Ocean, such as Guam and American Samoa, that extend U.S. political, military, and maritime presence across the region.
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C.
United States territories
United States territories are regions under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United States that are not part of any state, such as Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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D.
United States airspace
United States airspace is the controlled portion of the atmosphere above U.S. territory and territorial waters where U.S. authorities regulate and manage all civil and military aviation activities.
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E.
U.S. Caribbean territories
The U.S. Caribbean territories are American island jurisdictions in the Caribbean Sea, such as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, that extend U.S. political, economic, and maritime presence into the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
maritime zone
ⓘ
territorial sea ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Arctic Ocean
ⓘ
Atlantic Ocean ⓘ Beaufort Sea ⓘ Bering Sea ⓘ Bristol Bay ⓘ Caribbean Sea ⓘ Chesapeake Bay ⓘ Chukchi Sea ⓘ Cook Inlet ⓘ Straits of Florida ⓘ
surface form:
Florida Straits
Gulf of Alaska ⓘ Gulf of Maine ⓘ Gulf of Mexico ⓘ Hudson Bay approaches near Alaska (via Arctic seas) ⓘ Long Island Sound ⓘ Pacific Ocean ⓘ Puget Sound ⓘ San Francisco Bay ⓘ Juan de Fuca Strait ⓘ
surface form:
Strait of Juan de Fuca
|
| coastalState | United States of America ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| enforcedBy |
United States Navy
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Navy
United States Coast Guard ⓘ state and local maritime law enforcement agencies ⓘ |
| extendsFrom | baseline of the United States ⓘ |
| governedBy |
federal law of the United States
ⓘ
international law of the sea ⓘ state law of coastal U.S. states (in certain areas) ⓘ |
| includesAreasOff |
Alaska
ⓘ
American Samoa ⓘ Guam ⓘ Hawaii ⓘ Northern Mariana Islands ⓘ Puerto Rico ⓘ U.S. Virgin Islands ⓘ contiguous United States ⓘ
surface form:
continental United States
other U.S. island territories ⓘ |
| legalStatus | sovereign territory of the United States ⓘ |
| maximumBreadth | 12 nautical miles ⓘ |
| measuredFrom | U.S. coastal baselines ⓘ |
| navigationRegime | innocent passage for foreign vessels ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
U.S. baseline regulations
ⓘ
U.S. contiguous zone ⓘ U.S. exclusive economic zone ⓘ U.S. internal waters ⓘ United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ⓘ |
| sovereignState | United States of America ⓘ |
| sovereigntyIncludes |
airspace above territorial sea
ⓘ
seabed ⓘ subsoil ⓘ water column ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
U.S. criminal jurisdiction
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U.S. customs and immigration control ⓘ U.S. environmental regulations ⓘ U.S. safety and navigation rules ⓘ |
| unitOfDistance | nautical mile ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial shipping
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environmental protection ⓘ fishing ⓘ national defense ⓘ offshore resource exploitation ⓘ recreation and tourism ⓘ |
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: United States territorial waters Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
C1 cargo ship
this entity surface form:
United States coastal waters
this entity surface form:
U.S. territorial sea