The Ocean Cleanup
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The Ocean Cleanup is a nonprofit environmental organization that develops advanced technologies to remove plastic pollution from the world’s oceans and rivers.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Ocean Cleanup canonical | 4 |
| Great Pacific Garbage Patch cleanup | 1 |
| The Ocean Cleanup Foundation | 1 |
| ocean cleanup | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6383900 — 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: The Ocean Cleanup Context triple: [Boyan Slat, knownFor, The Ocean Cleanup]
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A.
Sea of Plastic
The "Sea of Plastic" is a vast expanse of intensive greenhouse agriculture in Almería, Spain, characterized by its nearly continuous white plastic-covered greenhouses visible from space.
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B.
Mission Blue
Mission Blue is a marine conservation organization led by oceanographer Sylvia Earle that works to protect critical ocean areas known as "Hope Spots" worldwide.
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C.
Ocean Unite
Ocean Unite is an ocean conservation initiative focused on protecting and restoring the world’s oceans through advocacy, partnerships, and policy change.
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D.
Red Sea Project
The Red Sea Project is a major Saudi Arabian luxury tourism and sustainable development initiative transforming a vast stretch of Red Sea coastline into a high-end global destination as part of the country’s economic diversification efforts.
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E.
New World Water
"New World Water" is a politically charged hip-hop track by Mos Def that critiques environmental exploitation, corporate greed, and the commodification of water.
- 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: The Ocean Cleanup Target entity description: The Ocean Cleanup is a nonprofit environmental organization that develops advanced technologies to remove plastic pollution from the world’s oceans and rivers.
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A.
Sea of Plastic
The "Sea of Plastic" is a vast expanse of intensive greenhouse agriculture in Almería, Spain, characterized by its nearly continuous white plastic-covered greenhouses visible from space.
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B.
Mission Blue
Mission Blue is a marine conservation organization led by oceanographer Sylvia Earle that works to protect critical ocean areas known as "Hope Spots" worldwide.
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C.
Ocean Unite
Ocean Unite is an ocean conservation initiative focused on protecting and restoring the world’s oceans through advocacy, partnerships, and policy change.
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D.
Red Sea Project
The Red Sea Project is a major Saudi Arabian luxury tourism and sustainable development initiative transforming a vast stretch of Red Sea coastline into a high-end global destination as part of the country’s economic diversification efforts.
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E.
New World Water
"New World Water" is a politically charged hip-hop track by Mos Def that critiques environmental exploitation, corporate greed, and the commodification of water.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
clean up plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
ⓘ
reduce plastic inflow from rivers to oceans ⓘ |
| basedIn | Rotterdam ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Netherlands ⓘ |
| develops |
System 001
ⓘ
System 002 ⓘ System 03 ⓘ The Interceptor ⓘ ocean plastic collection systems ⓘ river plastic interception systems ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
marine pollution
ⓘ
ocean cleanup technology ⓘ river plastic interception ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
macroplastic pollution
ⓘ
plastic waste removal ⓘ riverine plastic sources ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Boyan Slat ⓘ |
| foundedIn | Netherlands ⓘ |
| founder | Boyan Slat ⓘ |
| hasFocusRegion |
heavily polluting rivers
ⓘ
ocean gyres ⓘ |
| hasKeyPerson | Boyan Slat ⓘ |
| hasMethod |
anchored and moored river barriers
ⓘ
concentrating floating plastic for extraction ⓘ deploying barriers in ocean gyres ⓘ |
| hasProject |
Great Pacific Garbage Patch cleanup
ⓘ
linked to:
The Ocean Cleanup
System 002 (Jenny) ⓘ System 03 ⓘ The Interceptor river program ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Netherlands
ⓘ
Rotterdam ⓘ |
| inception | 2013 ⓘ |
| legalForm | nonprofit ⓘ |
| missionStatement | develop advanced technologies to rid the world’s oceans of plastic ⓘ |
| nonProfitStatus | charitable organization ⓘ |
| operatesAs | international NGO ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
ⓘ
linked to:
North Pacific Gyre
Pacific Ocean ⓘ multiple rivers worldwide ⓘ |
| purpose |
environmental protection
ⓘ
removal of plastic pollution from oceans ⓘ removal of plastic pollution from rivers ⓘ |
| uses |
passive collection systems driven by ocean currents
ⓘ
solar-powered river interceptors ⓘ |
| website | https://theoceancleanup.com ⓘ |
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: The Ocean Cleanup Description of subject: The Ocean Cleanup is a nonprofit environmental organization that develops advanced technologies to remove plastic pollution from the world’s oceans and rivers.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Ocean Cleanup
linked to: The Ocean Cleanup