Sulu Sea Plate
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The Sulu Sea Plate is a small tectonic plate in the western Pacific region underlying the Sulu Sea between the Philippines and Borneo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sulu Sea Plate canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10691592 — 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: Sulu Sea Plate Context triple: [Negros Trench, subductingPlate, Sulu Sea Plate]
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A.
Solomon Sea Plate
The Solomon Sea Plate is a small, active oceanic tectonic plate in the southwestern Pacific, located north of Papua New Guinea and associated with intense subduction and volcanism.
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B.
Banda Sea Plate
The Banda Sea Plate is a small tectonic plate in eastern Indonesia involved in complex interactions and subduction with surrounding microplates and major plates in the region.
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C.
Philippine Sea Plate
The Philippine Sea Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate in the western Pacific whose complex subduction zones and boundaries contribute significantly to the intense seismic and volcanic activity of the region.
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D.
Kula Plate
The Kula Plate was an ancient oceanic tectonic plate in the northern Pacific that once subducted beneath western North America before being largely consumed.
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E.
Okinawa Plate
The Okinawa Plate is a minor tectonic plate in the western Pacific region, underlying parts of the East China Sea and associated with active subduction zones and seismic activity near Japan and Taiwan.
- 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: Sulu Sea Plate Target entity description: The Sulu Sea Plate is a small tectonic plate in the western Pacific region underlying the Sulu Sea between the Philippines and Borneo.
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A.
Solomon Sea Plate
The Solomon Sea Plate is a small, active oceanic tectonic plate in the southwestern Pacific, located north of Papua New Guinea and associated with intense subduction and volcanism.
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B.
Banda Sea Plate
The Banda Sea Plate is a small tectonic plate in eastern Indonesia involved in complex interactions and subduction with surrounding microplates and major plates in the region.
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C.
Philippine Sea Plate
The Philippine Sea Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate in the western Pacific whose complex subduction zones and boundaries contribute significantly to the intense seismic and volcanic activity of the region.
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D.
Kula Plate
The Kula Plate was an ancient oceanic tectonic plate in the northern Pacific that once subducted beneath western North America before being largely consumed.
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E.
Okinawa Plate
The Okinawa Plate is a minor tectonic plate in the western Pacific region, underlying parts of the East China Sea and associated with active subduction zones and seismic activity near Japan and Taiwan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
microplate
ⓘ
tectonic plate ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Eurasian Plate
ⓘ
Philippine Mobile Belt ⓘ Philippine Sea Plate ⓘ Sunda Plate ⓘ |
| boundedBy |
subduction zones
ⓘ
trenches ⓘ |
| formedIn | Cenozoic ⓘ |
| geologicalSetting | marginal basin ⓘ |
| liesNorthOf | Celebes Sea ⓘ |
| liesSouthOf | Philippine Mobile Belt ⓘ |
| liesWestOf | Philippine Sea Plate ⓘ |
| lithosphereType | oceanic lithosphere ⓘ |
| locatedBetween |
Borneo
ⓘ
Philippines ⓘ |
| locatedIn | western Pacific region ⓘ |
| locatedOffshoreFrom |
Mindanao
ⓘ
Palawan ⓘ Sabah ⓘ |
| movementType | relative motion with surrounding plates ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Sulu Sea ⓘ |
| overlainBy | Sulu Sea basin sediments ⓘ |
| partOf |
Philippine Sea region
ⓘ
linked to:
Philippine Sea
|
| region | Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| studyField |
marine geology
ⓘ
plate tectonics ⓘ |
| typeOf | oceanic plate ⓘ |
| underlies | Sulu Sea ⓘ |
| underliesPartOf |
Philippine archipelago
ⓘ
linked to:
Philippine Archipelago
northwestern Borneo margin ⓘ |
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: Sulu Sea Plate Description of subject: The Sulu Sea Plate is a small tectonic plate in the western Pacific region underlying the Sulu Sea between the Philippines and Borneo.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Sulu Sea Plate and Philippine Mobile Belt
subject linked to:
Sulu Sea Plate and Philippine Mobile Belt
subject linked to:
Sulu Sea Plate and Philippine Mobile Belt