Cebu Strait
E116881
Cebu Strait is a narrow channel in the central Philippines that separates the islands of Cebu and Bohol and serves as an important maritime route in the Visayas region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cebu Strait canonical | 15 |
| Bohol Strait | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T762408 — 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: Cebu Strait Context triple: [Mactan, bodyOfWater, Cebu Strait]
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A.
Luzon Strait
The Luzon Strait is a strategically important body of water between Taiwan and the Philippines that connects the South China Sea with the Philippine Sea in the western Pacific Ocean.
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B.
Mactan Channel
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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C.
Lombok Strait
Lombok Strait is a deep, narrow waterway between the Indonesian islands of Bali and Lombok that serves as a major international shipping route and alternative passage to the nearby Strait of Malacca.
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D.
Madura Strait
Madura Strait is the body of water separating the island of Madura from northeastern Java in Indonesia, serving as an important local maritime passage.
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E.
Bali Strait
The Bali Strait is a narrow body of water separating the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali, serving as an important local shipping and ferry route.
- 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: Cebu Strait Target entity description: Cebu Strait is a narrow channel in the central Philippines that separates the islands of Cebu and Bohol and serves as an important maritime route in the Visayas region.
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A.
Luzon Strait
The Luzon Strait is a strategically important body of water between Taiwan and the Philippines that connects the South China Sea with the Philippine Sea in the western Pacific Ocean.
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B.
Mactan Channel
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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C.
Lombok Strait
Lombok Strait is a deep, narrow waterway between the Indonesian islands of Bali and Lombok that serves as a major international shipping route and alternative passage to the nearby Strait of Malacca.
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D.
Madura Strait
Madura Strait is the body of water separating the island of Madura from northeastern Java in Indonesia, serving as an important local maritime passage.
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E.
Bali Strait
The Bali Strait is a narrow body of water separating the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali, serving as an important local shipping and ferry route.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
sea channel
ⓘ
strait ⓘ |
| adjacentProvince |
Bohol Island
ⓘ
surface form:
Bohol Province
Province of Cebu ⓘ
surface form:
Cebu Province
|
| belongsToOcean |
Pacific Ocean
ⓘ
surface form:
Pacific Ocean basin
|
| bodyOfWaterType | narrow channel ⓘ |
| climateZone | tropical maritime climate ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Bohol Sea
ⓘ
Camotes Sea ⓘ Visayan Sea ⓘ |
| country | Philippines ⓘ |
| geographicRegion | central Philippines ⓘ |
| governedBy | Philippine maritime laws ⓘ |
| hasEconomicRole |
regional trade
ⓘ
tourism transport ⓘ |
| hasHazard |
seasonal typhoons
ⓘ
strong tidal currents ⓘ |
| hasLanguageRegion |
Boholano-speaking area
ⓘ
Cebuano-speaking area ⓘ |
| hasMajorPortNearby |
Cebu
ⓘ
surface form:
Cebu City
Tagbilaran ⓘ
surface form:
Tagbilaran City
|
| hasTransportLink |
Cebu–Getafe ferry routes
ⓘ
Cebu–Tagbilaran ferry routes ⓘ Cebu–Tubigon ferry routes ⓘ |
| historicalUse | trade route among Visayan islands ⓘ |
| locatedBetween |
Bohol Island
ⓘ
surface form:
island of Bohol
Cebu Island ⓘ
surface form:
island of Cebu
|
| locatedIn |
Central Visayas
ⓘ
Visayas ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry |
Philippines
ⓘ
surface form:
Republic of the Philippines
|
| maritimeRouteFor |
cargo vessels
ⓘ
ferry traffic ⓘ inter-island shipping ⓘ |
| navigationImportance | important regional shipping lane ⓘ |
| nearbyIsland |
Mactan
ⓘ
surface form:
Mactan Island
Panglao Island ⓘ |
| partOf |
Philippine Archipelago
ⓘ
surface form:
Philippine archipelago
Philippine Nautical Highway System ⓘ
surface form:
Philippine maritime routes
|
| regionServed | Visayas ⓘ |
| separates |
Bohol Island
ⓘ
surface form:
Bohol
Cebu ⓘ |
| usedFor |
fishing
ⓘ
freight transport ⓘ passenger transport ⓘ |
| usedSince | pre-colonial era ⓘ |
| waterBodyOf |
Philippine Sea
ⓘ
surface form:
Philippine Sea system
|
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: Cebu Strait Description of subject: Cebu Strait is a narrow channel in the central Philippines that separates the islands of Cebu and Bohol and serves as an important maritime route in the Visayas region.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bohol Strait
subject surface form:
Naga, Cebu