Windward Passage
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Windward Passage is a strategically important strait in the Caribbean Sea that separates Cuba and Haiti and serves as a major shipping route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Panama Canal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Windward Passage canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8112687 — 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: Windward Passage Context triple: [Cuban archipelago, borderedBySea, Windward Passage]
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A.
Bahama Passage
Bahama Passage is a mid-20th-century work by Sterling Relyea Walter (better known as author and screenwriter John W. Campbell Jr.), reflecting his early career in popular fiction.
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B.
Mona Passage
The Mona Passage is a strait in the Caribbean Sea that separates the islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, serving as a key shipping route and a challenging stretch of water for navigation.
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C.
Peril Strait
Peril Strait is a narrow, island-dotted waterway in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska, known for its strong currents and challenging navigation.
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D.
Verde Island Passage
Verde Island Passage is a biodiverse strait in the Philippines renowned as a global center of marine shorefish diversity and a prime site for diving and marine conservation.
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E.
Discovery Passage
Discovery Passage is a narrow, fast-flowing marine channel on the British Columbia coast that forms part of the Inside Passage between Vancouver Island and the mainland.
- 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: Windward Passage Target entity description: Windward Passage is a strategically important strait in the Caribbean Sea that separates Cuba and Haiti and serves as a major shipping route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Panama Canal.
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A.
Bahama Passage
Bahama Passage is a mid-20th-century work by Sterling Relyea Walter (better known as author and screenwriter John W. Campbell Jr.), reflecting his early career in popular fiction.
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B.
Mona Passage
The Mona Passage is a strait in the Caribbean Sea that separates the islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, serving as a key shipping route and a challenging stretch of water for navigation.
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C.
Peril Strait
Peril Strait is a narrow, island-dotted waterway in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska, known for its strong currents and challenging navigation.
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D.
Verde Island Passage
Verde Island Passage is a biodiverse strait in the Philippines renowned as a global center of marine shorefish diversity and a prime site for diving and marine conservation.
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E.
Discovery Passage
Discovery Passage is a narrow, fast-flowing marine channel on the British Columbia coast that forms part of the Inside Passage between Vancouver Island and the mainland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Windward Passage Description of subject: Windward Passage is a strategically important strait in the Caribbean Sea that separates Cuba and Haiti and serves as a major shipping route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Panama Canal.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.