Kalmarsund
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Kalmarsund is a strait in the Baltic Sea that separates the Swedish island of Öland from the mainland province of Småland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kalmarsund canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5571912 — 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: Kalmarsund Context triple: [Kalmar Strait, hasAlternativeName, Kalmarsund]
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A.
Strelasund
Strelasund is a strait in the Baltic Sea separating the German island of Rügen from the mainland near the city of Stralsund.
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B.
Kvarner Gulf
Kvarner Gulf is a bay of the northern Adriatic Sea known for its coastal cities and islands that form a popular tourist region of Croatia.
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C.
Riddarfjärden
Riddarfjärden is the easternmost bay of Lake Mälaren in central Stockholm, known for its iconic city skyline views and historic waterfront.
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D.
Norrsundet
Norrsundet is a small coastal locality in eastern Sweden known historically for its sawmill and harbor along the Gulf of Bothnia.
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E.
Karmsundet
Karmsundet is a narrow strait in Rogaland county, Norway, separating the island of Karmøy from the mainland and forming part of the historic sailing route along the Norwegian coast.
- 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: Kalmarsund Target entity description: Kalmarsund is a strait in the Baltic Sea that separates the Swedish island of Öland from the mainland province of Småland.
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A.
Strelasund
Strelasund is a strait in the Baltic Sea separating the German island of Rügen from the mainland near the city of Stralsund.
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B.
Kvarner Gulf
Kvarner Gulf is a bay of the northern Adriatic Sea known for its coastal cities and islands that form a popular tourist region of Croatia.
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C.
Riddarfjärden
Riddarfjärden is the easternmost bay of Lake Mälaren in central Stockholm, known for its iconic city skyline views and historic waterfront.
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D.
Norrsundet
Norrsundet is a small coastal locality in eastern Sweden known historically for its sawmill and harbor along the Gulf of Bothnia.
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E.
Karmsundet
Karmsundet is a narrow strait in Rogaland county, Norway, separating the island of Karmøy from the mainland and forming part of the historic sailing route along the Norwegian coast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
body of water
ⓘ
strait ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Kalmar County
ⓘ
Småland ⓘ Öland ⓘ |
| connects |
northern Baltic Sea
ⓘ
southern Baltic Sea ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Sweden ⓘ |
| crossedBy | Öland Bridge ⓘ |
| hasCoastOn |
Kalmar
ⓘ
Småland ⓘ Öland ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage | sv:Kalmarsund ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Swedish territorial waters ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Baltic Sea
ⓘ
Kalmar County ⓘ Sweden ⓘ southeastern Sweden ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Kalmar ⓘ |
| near | Kalmar ⓘ |
| region | Scandinavia ⓘ |
| separates |
Småland
ⓘ
Öland ⓘ |
| usedFor |
fishing
ⓘ
recreation ⓘ shipping ⓘ |
| waterBodyType | marine strait ⓘ |
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: Kalmarsund Description of subject: Kalmarsund is a strait in the Baltic Sea that separates the Swedish island of Öland from the mainland province of Småland.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.