Frederick Sound
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Frederick Sound is a broad waterway in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, known for its scenic fjord-like surroundings and abundant marine wildlife, especially humpback whales.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Frederick Sound canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7097175 — 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: Frederick Sound Context triple: [Stephens Passage, connectsTo, Frederick Sound]
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A.
Jones Sound
Jones Sound is a remote Arctic waterway in the Canadian High Arctic Archipelago, separating Devon Island from Ellesmere Island and connecting Baffin Bay with the Arctic Ocean.
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B.
Ligon
Ligon is a surname most notably associated with Glenn Ligon, an American conceptual artist known for his text-based works exploring race, language, and identity.
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C.
River Hart
The River Hart is a small river in Hampshire, England, that flows through the Hart District and contributes to the area's rural landscape and local ecosystems.
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D.
Bluemull Sound
Bluemull Sound is a narrow sea channel in the Shetland Islands of Scotland, separating the islands of Yell and Unst.
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E.
James Bay
James Bay is a large southern extension of Hudson Bay in northeastern Canada, known for its subarctic environment, rich marine and coastal ecosystems, and historical significance in early European exploration and the fur trade.
- 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: Frederick Sound Target entity description: Frederick Sound is a broad waterway in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, known for its scenic fjord-like surroundings and abundant marine wildlife, especially humpback whales.
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A.
Jones Sound
Jones Sound is a remote Arctic waterway in the Canadian High Arctic Archipelago, separating Devon Island from Ellesmere Island and connecting Baffin Bay with the Arctic Ocean.
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B.
Ligon
Ligon is a surname most notably associated with Glenn Ligon, an American conceptual artist known for his text-based works exploring race, language, and identity.
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C.
River Hart
The River Hart is a small river in Hampshire, England, that flows through the Hart District and contributes to the area's rural landscape and local ecosystems.
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D.
Bluemull Sound
Bluemull Sound is a narrow sea channel in the Shetland Islands of Scotland, separating the islands of Yell and Unst.
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E.
James Bay
James Bay is a large southern extension of Hudson Bay in northeastern Canada, known for its subarctic environment, rich marine and coastal ecosystems, and historical significance in early European exploration and the fur trade.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographic feature
ⓘ
sound ⓘ waterway ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Chatham Strait
ⓘ
Stephens Passage ⓘ Sumner Strait ⓘ |
| bodyOfWaterType |
inlet
ⓘ
sound ⓘ |
| climate | maritime subarctic climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| ecosystemType | temperate rainforest marine interface ⓘ |
| hasPort | Petersburg, Alaska ⓘ |
| historicalUse |
navigation route for indigenous peoples
ⓘ
route for European and Russian explorers ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
State of Alaska
ⓘ
linked to:
Alaska
|
| knownFor |
abundant marine wildlife
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humpback whale watching ⓘ scenic fjord-like surroundings ⓘ whale watching tourism ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alaska
ⓘ
Alexander Archipelago ⓘ Southeast Alaska ⓘ
linked to:
Southeastern Alaska
|
| marineSpecies |
Dall’s porpoise
ⓘ
Pacific salmon ⓘ Steller sea lion ⓘ bald eagle ⓘ harbor seal ⓘ humpback whale ⓘ orca ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Prince Frederick of Great Britain
ⓘ
linked to:
Frederick, Prince of Wales
|
| navigationUse |
fishing grounds
ⓘ
marine transportation route ⓘ |
| nearbyIsland |
Admiralty Island
ⓘ
Kupreanof Island ⓘ Mitkof Island ⓘ Woewodski Island ⓘ |
| nearbySettlement |
Kake, Alaska
ⓘ
Petersburg, Alaska ⓘ |
| ocean | Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| partOf |
Alexander Archipelago waterways network
ⓘ
linked to:
Alexander Archipelago
Inside Passage ⓘ |
| region | Panhandle of Alaska ⓘ |
| tourismActivity |
cruise ship transits
ⓘ
sea kayaking ⓘ whale watching ⓘ wildlife viewing ⓘ |
| wildlifeConcentration | summer feeding area for humpback whales ⓘ |
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: Frederick Sound Description of subject: Frederick Sound is a broad waterway in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, known for its scenic fjord-like surroundings and abundant marine wildlife, especially humpback whales.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.