Seram Sea
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The Seram Sea is a marginal sea in eastern Indonesia, bordered by islands such as Seram and Buru and forming part of the larger Pacific and Indonesian archipelagic waters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Seram Sea canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7355277 — 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: Seram Sea Context triple: [Buru, locatedInBodyOfWater, Seram Sea]
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A.
Flores Sea
The Flores Sea is a marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, located in Indonesia between the islands of Flores, Sulawesi, and Sumbawa, and known for its deep basins and rich marine biodiversity.
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B.
Ambon Bay
Ambon Bay is a sheltered inlet in the Maluku Islands of Indonesia, known for surrounding the city of Ambon and serving as an important natural harbor and marine habitat.
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C.
Natuna Islands
The Natuna Islands are a remote group of islands in the South China Sea administered by Indonesia, known for their strategic location and significant natural gas reserves.
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D.
Palu Bay
Palu Bay is a coastal inlet on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, known for its narrow, elongated shape and vulnerability to tsunamis and seismic activity.
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E.
Banggai Islands
The Banggai Islands are an archipelago in eastern Indonesia known for their rich marine biodiversity, traditional fishing communities, and the endemic Banggai cardinalfish.
- 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: Seram Sea Target entity description: The Seram Sea is a marginal sea in eastern Indonesia, bordered by islands such as Seram and Buru and forming part of the larger Pacific and Indonesian archipelagic waters.
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A.
Flores Sea
The Flores Sea is a marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, located in Indonesia between the islands of Flores, Sulawesi, and Sumbawa, and known for its deep basins and rich marine biodiversity.
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B.
Ambon Bay
Ambon Bay is a sheltered inlet in the Maluku Islands of Indonesia, known for surrounding the city of Ambon and serving as an important natural harbor and marine habitat.
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C.
Natuna Islands
The Natuna Islands are a remote group of islands in the South China Sea administered by Indonesia, known for their strategic location and significant natural gas reserves.
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D.
Palu Bay
Palu Bay is a coastal inlet on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, known for its narrow, elongated shape and vulnerability to tsunamis and seismic activity.
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E.
Banggai Islands
The Banggai Islands are an archipelago in eastern Indonesia known for their rich marine biodiversity, traditional fishing communities, and the endemic Banggai cardinalfish.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | marginal sea ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Indonesia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Ambon Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Banda Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Buru Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Halmahera Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Seram Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Sula Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ Tanimbar Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | tropical ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
fisheries
ⓘ
shipping routes ⓘ |
| hasIsland |
Ambon Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Buru Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Haruku Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Kelang Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Manipa Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Nusa Laut Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Saparua Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Seram Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguageRegion | Maluku languages area ⓘ |
| hasStrait |
Buru Strait
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Manipa Strait NERFINISHED ⓘ Sapinang Strait NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
complex tectonics
ⓘ
deep basins ⓘ rich marine biodiversity ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Maluku Islands
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maritime Southeast Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ eastern Indonesia ⓘ |
| locatedOnPlate |
Australian Plate
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pacific Plate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Seram Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near |
Banda Arc
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Seram Trough NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| oceanRegion | western Pacific Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Coral Triangle region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
East Indian Archipelago NERFINISHED ⓘ Indonesian archipelagic waters ⓘ Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| separatedFrom |
Banda Sea
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Halmahera Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
fishing
ⓘ
marine transport ⓘ |
| waterType | salt water ⓘ |
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: Seram Sea Description of subject: The Seram Sea is a marginal sea in eastern Indonesia, bordered by islands such as Seram and Buru and forming part of the larger Pacific and Indonesian archipelagic waters.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.