Java volcanic arc
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The Java volcanic arc is a chain of active and dormant volcanoes formed by subduction along the southern margin of the Indonesian island of Java.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Java volcanic arc canonical | 1 |
| Java volcanic chain | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7133288 — 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: Java volcanic arc Context triple: [Mount Kelud, mountainRange, Java volcanic arc]
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A.
Cascade Volcanic Arc
The Cascade Volcanic Arc is a major chain of active and dormant volcanoes in western North America, stretching from northern California through Oregon and Washington into British Columbia.
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B.
Taconic volcanic arc
The Taconic volcanic arc was an ancient chain of volcanoes active along the eastern margin of ancestral North America during the Ordovician period, whose collision and accretion played a key role in building the early Appalachian Mountains.
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C.
Fuji Volcanic Zone
The Fuji Volcanic Zone is a major volcanic region in central Japan that encompasses Mount Fuji and surrounding volcanoes formed by complex tectonic interactions.
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D.
Apennine volcanic arc
The Apennine volcanic arc is a chain of volcanoes and related geological features in Italy associated with the tectonic activity of the Apennine mountain range.
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E.
Canary hotspot volcanic system
The Canary hotspot volcanic system is a mantle plume-driven volcanic region responsible for forming and sustaining the volcanically active Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean.
- 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: Java volcanic arc Target entity description: The Java volcanic arc is a chain of active and dormant volcanoes formed by subduction along the southern margin of the Indonesian island of Java.
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A.
Cascade Volcanic Arc
The Cascade Volcanic Arc is a major chain of active and dormant volcanoes in western North America, stretching from northern California through Oregon and Washington into British Columbia.
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B.
Taconic volcanic arc
The Taconic volcanic arc was an ancient chain of volcanoes active along the eastern margin of ancestral North America during the Ordovician period, whose collision and accretion played a key role in building the early Appalachian Mountains.
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C.
Fuji Volcanic Zone
The Fuji Volcanic Zone is a major volcanic region in central Japan that encompasses Mount Fuji and surrounding volcanoes formed by complex tectonic interactions.
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D.
Apennine volcanic arc
The Apennine volcanic arc is a chain of volcanoes and related geological features in Italy associated with the tectonic activity of the Apennine mountain range.
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E.
Canary hotspot volcanic system
The Canary hotspot volcanic system is a mantle plume-driven volcanic region responsible for forming and sustaining the volcanically active Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
subduction-related volcanic arc
ⓘ
volcanic arc ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Indonesian volcanic arc system
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sunda Arc NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
Mount Agung
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mount Bromo NERFINISHED ⓘ Mount Galunggung NERFINISHED ⓘ Mount Guntur NERFINISHED ⓘ Mount Ijen NERFINISHED ⓘ Mount Kelud NERFINISHED ⓘ Mount Lawu NERFINISHED ⓘ Mount Merapi NERFINISHED ⓘ Mount Papandayan NERFINISHED ⓘ Mount Raung NERFINISHED ⓘ Mount Semeru NERFINISHED ⓘ Mount Sindoro NERFINISHED ⓘ Mount Slamet NERFINISHED ⓘ Mount Sumbing NERFINISHED ⓘ Mount Tangkuban Perahu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsVolcanoes |
active volcanoes
ⓘ
dormant volcanoes ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| dominantRockType |
andesite
ⓘ
basaltic andesite ⓘ |
| formedBy | subduction ⓘ |
| geologicalAge | Cenozoic ⓘ |
| hazardType |
ash fall
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explosive eruptions ⓘ lahars ⓘ pyroclastic flows ⓘ |
| influences |
Java geothermal activity
ⓘ
Java regional seismicity ⓘ Java soil fertility ⓘ |
| length | approximately 1000 km ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Southeast Asia
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Sunda Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Java NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| magmatismType | calc-alkaline ⓘ |
| marginType | southern margin of Java ⓘ |
| orientedAlong | east–west direction ⓘ |
| overridingPlate |
Eurasian Plate
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sunda Plate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parallelTo | Java Trench NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Pacific Ring of Fire ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Bali-Lombok volcanic segment
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sunda Strait volcanic segment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subductingPlate | Indo-Australian Plate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tectonicSetting | convergent plate boundary ⓘ |
| volcanoTypeDominant | stratovolcano ⓘ |
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: Java volcanic arc Description of subject: The Java volcanic arc is a chain of active and dormant volcanoes formed by subduction along the southern margin of the Indonesian island of Java.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Java volcanic chain