Mactan Channel

E115453

body of water narrow strait strait

Mactan Channel is a narrow strait in the central Philippines that separates Mactan Island from Cebu Island and serves as an important maritime passage and harbor area.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Mactan Channel canonical	14

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	body of water ⓘ narrow strait ⓘ strait ⓘ
adjacentTo	Cebu ⓘ surface form: Cebu City Cordova, Cebu ⓘ Lapu-Lapu City ⓘ Mandaue City ⓘ
borders	Cebu Island ⓘ Mactan ⓘ surface form: Mactan Island Metro Cebu ⓘ
connectsTo	Cebu Strait ⓘ surface form: Bohol Strait Camotes Sea ⓘ
country	Philippines ⓘ
crossedBy	Cebu–Cordova Link Expressway ⓘ Mactan–Mandaue Bridge ⓘ Marcelo Fernan Bridge ⓘ
governedBy	local government units of Cebu City ⓘ local government units of Cordova, Cebu ⓘ local government units of Lapu-Lapu City ⓘ local government units of Mandaue City ⓘ
hasEconomicRole	supports inter-island trade ⓘ supports international shipping to Cebu ⓘ
hasIssue	marine pollution ⓘ solid waste accumulation ⓘ water quality degradation ⓘ
hasNavigationRole	access route to Cebu domestic port ⓘ access route to Cebu international port ⓘ
hasPort	Port of Cebu ⓘ surface form: Cebu International Port Mactan wharves ⓘ Port of Cebu ⓘ
importance	major maritime passage for Cebu metropolitan area ⓘ
locatedIn	Central Visayas ⓘ central Philippines ⓘ
locatedInBody	Visayas ⓘ surface form: Visayan Sea region
near	Mactan–Cebu International Airport ⓘ
partOf	Port of Cebu ⓘ surface form: Cebu City harbor area Cebu Strait ⓘ
separates	Cebu Island ⓘ Mactan ⓘ surface form: Mactan Island
usedFor	ferry transport ⓘ harbor operations ⓘ maritime navigation ⓘ shipping ⓘ
waterwayType	coastal channel ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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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: Mactan Channel
Description of subject: Mactan Channel is a narrow strait in the central Philippines that separates Mactan Island from Cebu Island and serves as an important maritime passage and harbor area.

Referenced by (14)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mactan → surroundedBy → Mactan Channel ⓘ

Lapu-Lapu → associatedWithPlace → Mactan Channel ⓘ

Lapu-Lapu Shrine → hasViewOf → Mactan Channel ⓘ

Cordova → hasBodyOfWater → Mactan Channel ⓘ

subject surface form: Cordova, Cebu

Mactan–Mandaue Bridge → crosses → Mactan Channel ⓘ

Mactan–Mandaue Bridge → hasLocale → Mactan Channel ⓘ

Mactan–Mandaue Bridge → waterway → Mactan Channel ⓘ

Marcelo Fernan Bridge → crosses → Mactan Channel ⓘ

Marcelo Fernan Bridge → waterway → Mactan Channel ⓘ

Mandaue City → hasCoastlineOn → Mactan Channel ⓘ

Nalusuan Island reef → partOf → Mactan Channel ⓘ

Cebu–Mactan road network → crosses → Mactan Channel ⓘ

Cilapulapu → associatedWith → Mactan Channel ⓘ

Port of Cebu → locatedOnBodyOfWater → Mactan Channel ⓘ