Iki Island
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Iki Island is a Japanese island in the Tsushima Strait known for its historic role in Japan–Korea maritime routes, scenic coastlines, and ancient cultural sites.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iki Island canonical | 26 |
| Iki Island coastal area | 1 |
| Iki Island region | 1 |
| Iki Island trade and communication routes | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T601781 — 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: Iki Island Context triple: [Korea Strait, borderedBy, Iki Island]
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A.
Omelek Island
Omelek Island is a small atoll in the Marshall Islands that served as SpaceX’s early orbital launch site for its Falcon 1 rocket.
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B.
Buvuma Island
Buvuma Island is one of the largest islands in Uganda’s portion of Lake Victoria, known for its fishing communities and tropical landscapes.
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C.
Chamisso Island
Chamisso Island is a small island in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska, known for its rich Arctic wildlife and designation as part of the Chukchi Sea unit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.
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D.
Amantaní Island
Amantaní Island is a remote, traditionally Quechua-speaking island in Peru’s Lake Titicaca, known for its terraced agriculture, community-run homestays, and well-preserved indigenous culture.
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E.
Mona Island
Mona Island is a remote, uninhabited nature reserve in the Mona Passage known for its rugged limestone cliffs, unique wildlife, and pristine beaches.
- 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: Iki Island Target entity description: Iki Island is a Japanese island in the Tsushima Strait known for its historic role in Japan–Korea maritime routes, scenic coastlines, and ancient cultural sites.
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A.
Omelek Island
Omelek Island is a small atoll in the Marshall Islands that served as SpaceX’s early orbital launch site for its Falcon 1 rocket.
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B.
Buvuma Island
Buvuma Island is one of the largest islands in Uganda’s portion of Lake Victoria, known for its fishing communities and tropical landscapes.
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C.
Chamisso Island
Chamisso Island is a small island in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska, known for its rich Arctic wildlife and designation as part of the Chukchi Sea unit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.
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D.
Amantaní Island
Amantaní Island is a remote, traditionally Quechua-speaking island in Peru’s Lake Titicaca, known for its terraced agriculture, community-run homestays, and well-preserved indigenous culture.
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E.
Mona Island
Mona Island is a remote, uninhabited nature reserve in the Mona Passage known for its rugged limestone cliffs, unique wildlife, and pristine beaches.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
island
ⓘ
populated place ⓘ |
| administeredBy | Iki City ⓘ |
| area | about 138 km² ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| elevation | 212 m ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Iki Airport ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
rocky coastlines
ⓘ
sandy beaches ⓘ sea caves ⓘ |
| hasHeritage |
Kofun period burial mounds
ⓘ
Yayoi period archaeological sites ⓘ |
| hasHighestPoint | Takenotsuji ⓘ |
| hasMainEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| hasSite |
Ashibe Port
ⓘ
Gonoura Port ⓘ Harunotsuji archaeological site ⓘ Iki Kokubun-ji ruins ⓘ Indoji Port ⓘ Kuyoshihama Beach ⓘ Oninoashiato (Devil’s Footprint) coast ⓘ Saruiwa (Monkey Rock) ⓘ
linked to:
Meoto Iwa
Satohama Beach ⓘ Sumiyoshi Shrine (Iki) ⓘ Tsukiyomi Shrine ⓘ Yunomoto Onsen ⓘ |
| hasTransport |
ferry connections to Fukuoka
ⓘ
ferry connections to Karatsu ⓘ |
| historicalRole | Japan–Korea maritime routes ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | frontier island between Japan and Korea ⓘ |
| knownFor |
ancient cultural sites
ⓘ
historic role in Japan–Korea maritime routes ⓘ scenic coastlines ⓘ |
| locatedBetween |
Korean Peninsula
ⓘ
Kyushu ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Nagasaki Prefecture ⓘ |
| locatedInBodyOfWater |
Tsushima Strait
ⓘ
linked to:
Korea Strait
|
| locatedInRegion |
Kyushu region
ⓘ
linked to:
Kyushu
|
| locatedInSea | Sea of Japan ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | ancient Chinese chronicles as part of Wa (Japan) ⓘ |
| partOf | Iki City ⓘ |
| population | about 25,000 ⓘ |
| populationAsOf | around 2020 ⓘ |
| produces |
beef
ⓘ
rice ⓘ seafood ⓘ |
| religion |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Shinto ⓘ |
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: Iki Island Description of subject: Iki Island is a Japanese island in the Tsushima Strait known for its historic role in Japan–Korea maritime routes, scenic coastlines, and ancient cultural sites.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Iki Island
linked to: Iki Island
linked to: Iki Island
subject linked to:
Iki Airport (nearby Nagasaki Prefecture, used regionally)
subject linked to:
Iki Airport (nearby Nagasaki Prefecture, used regionally)
subject linked to:
Ōyashima (the eight great islands of Japan)