Halmahera Sea
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The Halmahera Sea is a marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, located in eastern Indonesia between Halmahera Island and surrounding island groups, and forms part of the complex seas of the Maluku Islands.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Halmahera Sea canonical | 27 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6560758 — 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: Halmahera Sea Context triple: [Molucca Sea, separatedFrom, Halmahera Sea]
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A.
Koro Sea
The Koro Sea is a deep, relatively isolated marginal sea in the central South Pacific, lying between Fiji’s main islands and known for its rich marine biodiversity and complex ocean currents.
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B.
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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C.
Savu Sea
The Savu Sea is a small sea in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia, known for its deep waters, rich marine biodiversity, and location between islands such as Timor, Sumba, and Flores.
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D.
Timor Sea
The Timor Sea is a tropical marginal sea in the eastern Indian Ocean, lying between Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and northern Australia, known for its rich offshore oil and gas reserves.
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E.
Molucca Sea
The Molucca Sea is a marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, located between Sulawesi and the Maluku Islands in Indonesia and known for its deep basins and tectonic activity.
- 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: Halmahera Sea Target entity description: The Halmahera Sea is a marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, located in eastern Indonesia between Halmahera Island and surrounding island groups, and forms part of the complex seas of the Maluku Islands.
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A.
Koro Sea
The Koro Sea is a deep, relatively isolated marginal sea in the central South Pacific, lying between Fiji’s main islands and known for its rich marine biodiversity and complex ocean currents.
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B.
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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C.
Savu Sea
The Savu Sea is a small sea in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia, known for its deep waters, rich marine biodiversity, and location between islands such as Timor, Sumba, and Flores.
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D.
Timor Sea
The Timor Sea is a tropical marginal sea in the eastern Indian Ocean, lying between Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and northern Australia, known for its rich offshore oil and gas reserves.
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E.
Molucca Sea
The Molucca Sea is a marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, located between Sulawesi and the Maluku Islands in Indonesia and known for its deep basins and tectonic activity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | marginal sea ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Indonesia ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Indo-Pacific region ⓘ |
| between | Halmahera Island and surrounding island groups ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Bacan Islands
ⓘ
linked to:
Bacan Island
Banda Sea ⓘ Ceram Sea ⓘ Halmahera Island ⓘ
linked to:
Halmahera
Molucca Sea ⓘ Morotai Island ⓘ
linked to:
Morotai
Obi Islands ⓘ Pacific Ocean ⓘ Philippine Sea ⓘ Seram Sea ⓘ Waigeo Island ⓘ
linked to:
Waigeo
|
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| hasAverageSurfaceTemperature | warm tropical waters ⓘ |
| hasBiodiversitySignificance |
important habitat for marine invertebrates
ⓘ
important habitat for reef fish ⓘ |
| hasClimate | tropical ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
fishing
ⓘ
small-scale shipping ⓘ |
| hasGeologicalSetting |
area of active plate convergence
ⓘ
complex tectonic region ⓘ |
| knownFor |
coral reef ecosystems
ⓘ
marine biodiversity ⓘ |
| languageRegion | Indonesian language ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Maritime Southeast Asia
ⓘ
eastern Indonesia ⓘ western Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | UTC+9 ⓘ |
| navigationUse | regional shipping routes ⓘ |
| near |
Maluku Islands
ⓘ
New Guinea ⓘ Philippines ⓘ |
| oceanRegion |
Australasian Mediterranean Sea
ⓘ
East Indies ⓘ |
| partOf |
Coral Triangle
ⓘ
Indonesian archipelagic waters ⓘ Maluku Islands region ⓘ
linked to:
Maluku Islands
Pacific Ocean ⓘ seas of Indonesia ⓘ |
| separates |
Halmahera Island
ⓘ
linked to:
Halmahera
|
| sovereignWatersOf | Indonesia ⓘ |
| waterType | saltwater ⓘ |
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: Halmahera Sea Description of subject: The Halmahera Sea is a marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, located in eastern Indonesia between Halmahera Island and surrounding island groups, and forms part of the complex seas of the Maluku Islands.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.