Spieden Channel
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Spieden Channel is a narrow waterway in Washington State’s San Juan Islands, known for separating Spieden Island from San Juan Island and serving as a passage within the larger Haro Strait.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spieden Channel canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10083752 — 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: Spieden Channel Context triple: [Haro Strait, hasPart, Spieden Channel]
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A.
Sealark Channel
Sealark Channel is a marine waterway located off the coast of Sri Lanka’s Central Province in the Indian Ocean.
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B.
Sealark Channel
Sealark Channel is a strait in the Solomon Islands that separates Savo Island from Guadalcanal and forms part of the Ironbottom Sound area known for major World War II naval battles.
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C.
Stuart Channel
Stuart Channel is a coastal waterway off Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, known for its sheltered marine environment and nearby coastal communities.
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D.
Thyborøn Channel
Thyborøn Channel is a key waterway on Denmark’s west coast that connects the Limfjord to the North Sea, enabling maritime access between the fjord and open ocean.
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E.
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.
- 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: Spieden Channel Target entity description: Spieden Channel is a narrow waterway in Washington State’s San Juan Islands, known for separating Spieden Island from San Juan Island and serving as a passage within the larger Haro Strait.
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A.
Sealark Channel
Sealark Channel is a strait in the Solomon Islands that separates Savo Island from Guadalcanal and forms part of the Ironbottom Sound area known for major World War II naval battles.
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B.
Sealark Channel
Sealark Channel is a marine waterway located off the coast of Sri Lanka’s Central Province in the Indian Ocean.
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C.
Stuart Channel
Stuart Channel is a coastal waterway off Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, known for its sheltered marine environment and nearby coastal communities.
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D.
Thyborøn Channel
Thyborøn Channel is a key waterway on Denmark’s west coast that connects the Limfjord to the North Sea, enabling maritime access between the fjord and open ocean.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
marine waterway
ⓘ
strait ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Haro Strait main shipping route ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasActivity | whale watching ⓘ |
| hasCurrent | tidal currents ⓘ |
| hasHazard |
navigational rocks and shoals
ⓘ
strong tidal flows ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction | State of Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWildlife |
marine mammals
ⓘ
seabirds ⓘ |
| isConnectedTo |
Haro Strait
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
San Juan Channel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Salish Sea region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
San Juan County, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ San Juan Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Washington State
north of San Juan Island ⓘ south of Spieden Island ⓘ |
| nearbyIsland |
San Juan Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spieden Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Haro Strait NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| separates |
San Juan Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spieden Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
recreational boating
ⓘ
small-craft navigation ⓘ sport fishing ⓘ |
| waterBodyType | saltwater channel ⓘ |
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: Spieden Channel Description of subject: Spieden Channel is a narrow waterway in Washington State’s San Juan Islands, known for separating Spieden Island from San Juan Island and serving as a passage within the larger Haro Strait.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.