Greater Antilles
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The Greater Antilles is a major island group in the Caribbean comprising the large islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, and forms the northern boundary of the Caribbean Sea.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Greater Antilles canonical | 71 |
| Greater Antilles region | 6 |
| Greater Antilles mountain systems | 2 |
| Caribbean mountain system | 1 |
| Greater Antilles islands | 1 |
| Greater Antilles region (broad Caribbean context) | 1 |
| Western Cuba | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17027 — 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: Greater Antilles Context triple: [Puerto Rico, locatedIn, Greater Antilles]
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A.
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a region of tropical islands and coastal areas in the Caribbean Sea, known for its diverse cultures, colonial history, and tourism-driven economies.
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B.
Isla de Vieques
Isla de Vieques is a small Caribbean island off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico, known for its pristine beaches, wild horses, and one of the world’s brightest bioluminescent bays.
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C.
British West Indies
The British West Indies were a group of Caribbean colonies under British rule, central to the Atlantic slave trade and plantation-based sugar economy from the 17th to 19th centuries.
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D.
Yucatán Peninsula
The Yucatán Peninsula is a large landmass in southeastern Mexico extending into the Caribbean, known for its Maya archaeological sites, cenotes, and tropical coastal ecosystems.
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E.
Bahamas
The Bahamas is an island country in the Atlantic Ocean, known for its tropical climate, coral-based archipelago, and status as a popular tourist and offshore financial center.
- 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: Greater Antilles Target entity description: The Greater Antilles is a major island group in the Caribbean comprising the large islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, and forms the northern boundary of the Caribbean Sea.
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A.
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a region of tropical islands and coastal areas in the Caribbean Sea, known for its diverse cultures, colonial history, and tourism-driven economies.
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B.
Isla de Vieques
Isla de Vieques is a small Caribbean island off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico, known for its pristine beaches, wild horses, and one of the world’s brightest bioluminescent bays.
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C.
British West Indies
The British West Indies were a group of Caribbean colonies under British rule, central to the Atlantic slave trade and plantation-based sugar economy from the 17th to 19th centuries.
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D.
Yucatán Peninsula
The Yucatán Peninsula is a large landmass in southeastern Mexico extending into the Caribbean, known for its Maya archaeological sites, cenotes, and tropical coastal ecosystems.
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E.
Bahamas
The Bahamas is an island country in the Atlantic Ocean, known for its tropical climate, coral-based archipelago, and status as a popular tourist and offshore financial center.
- 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: Greater Antilles Description of subject: The Greater Antilles is a major island group in the Caribbean comprising the large islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, and forms the northern boundary of the Caribbean Sea.
Referenced by (83)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Industriales
this entity surface form:
Western Cuba
this entity surface form:
Greater Antilles region
this entity surface form:
Greater Antilles region (broad Caribbean context)
this entity surface form:
Greater Antilles islands
this entity surface form:
Greater Antilles region
subject surface form:
Sierra Maestra
this entity surface form:
Greater Antilles mountain systems
this entity surface form:
Greater Antilles region
this entity surface form:
Greater Antilles region
subject surface form:
Western Cuba
this entity surface form:
Greater Antilles region