Sumner Strait
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Sumner Strait is a major waterway in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska, separating several large islands and serving as an important route for marine navigation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sumner Strait canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7269687 — 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: Sumner Strait Context triple: [Prince of Wales Island, borderedBy, Sumner Strait]
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Haro Strait
Haro Strait is a major marine waterway in the Salish Sea between Vancouver Island and the San Juan Islands, forming part of the Canada–United States border and serving as an important shipping route.
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Great Sandy Strait
Great Sandy Strait is a shallow, biodiverse waterway and protected marine area separating K'gari (Fraser Island) from mainland Queensland, Australia.
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Gastineau Channel
Gastineau Channel is a narrow tidal waterway in southeastern Alaska that separates Douglas Island from the mainland and provides the waterfront setting for the city of Juneau.
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D.
Dease Strait
Dease Strait is a waterway in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago that forms part of the Northwest Passage between Victoria Island and the mainland of Nunavut.
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E.
Clarence Strait
Clarence Strait is a body of water in Australia’s Northern Territory that forms a key marine passage between the mainland and nearby islands, linking coastal gulfs and the Timor Sea.
- 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: Sumner Strait Target entity description: Sumner Strait is a major waterway in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska, separating several large islands and serving as an important route for marine navigation.
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A.
Haro Strait
Haro Strait is a major marine waterway in the Salish Sea between Vancouver Island and the San Juan Islands, forming part of the Canada–United States border and serving as an important shipping route.
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B.
Great Sandy Strait
Great Sandy Strait is a shallow, biodiverse waterway and protected marine area separating K'gari (Fraser Island) from mainland Queensland, Australia.
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C.
Gastineau Channel
Gastineau Channel is a narrow tidal waterway in southeastern Alaska that separates Douglas Island from the mainland and provides the waterfront setting for the city of Juneau.
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D.
Dease Strait
Dease Strait is a waterway in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago that forms part of the Northwest Passage between Victoria Island and the mainland of Nunavut.
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E.
Clarence Strait
Clarence Strait is a body of water in Australia’s Northern Territory that forms a key marine passage between the mainland and nearby islands, linking coastal gulfs and the Timor Sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Sumner Strait Description of subject: Sumner Strait is a major waterway in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska, separating several large islands and serving as an important route for marine navigation.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.