Bohol Sea
E138085
The Bohol Sea, also known as the Mindanao Sea, is a deep basin in the southern Philippines renowned for its rich marine biodiversity and popular dive sites.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bohol Sea canonical | 46 |
| Mindanao Sea | 6 |
| Bohol Sea area | 1 |
| Bohol Sea region | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T807515 — 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: Bohol Sea Context triple: [Visayas, bodyOfWater, Bohol Sea]
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A.
Visayan Sea
The Visayan Sea is a central Philippine sea renowned for its rich fishing grounds and its location surrounded by the islands of the Visayas.
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B.
Sibuyan Sea
The Sibuyan Sea is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean in the central Philippines, known as the site of major World War II naval battles and shipwrecks.
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C.
Lingayen Gulf
Lingayen Gulf is a large bay on the northwestern coast of Luzon in the Philippines, known for its historical role in World War II and its fishing and coastal communities.
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D.
Sulu Sea
The Sulu Sea is a marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, located between the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia, known for its rich marine biodiversity and important shipping routes.
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E.
Celebes Sea
The Celebes Sea is a deep marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, located between the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia, known for its rich marine biodiversity and important shipping routes.
- 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: Bohol Sea Target entity description: The Bohol Sea, also known as the Mindanao Sea, is a deep basin in the southern Philippines renowned for its rich marine biodiversity and popular dive sites.
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A.
Visayan Sea
The Visayan Sea is a central Philippine sea renowned for its rich fishing grounds and its location surrounded by the islands of the Visayas.
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B.
Sibuyan Sea
The Sibuyan Sea is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean in the central Philippines, known as the site of major World War II naval battles and shipwrecks.
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C.
Lingayen Gulf
Lingayen Gulf is a large bay on the northwestern coast of Luzon in the Philippines, known for its historical role in World War II and its fishing and coastal communities.
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D.
Sulu Sea
The Sulu Sea is a marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, located between the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia, known for its rich marine biodiversity and important shipping routes.
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E.
Celebes Sea
The Celebes Sea is a deep marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, located between the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia, known for its rich marine biodiversity and important shipping routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
marginal sea
ⓘ
sea ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Bohol Sea
ⓘ
surface form:
Mindanao Sea
|
| basinType | deep oceanic basin ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
Coral Triangle
ⓘ
surface form:
Coral Triangle region
|
| borderedBy |
Bohol Island
ⓘ
surface form:
Bohol
Camiguin Island ⓘ
surface form:
Camiguin
Cebu ⓘ Mindanao ⓘ Negros Island ⓘ |
| climate | tropical ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Camotes Sea
ⓘ
Philippine Sea ⓘ Sulu Sea ⓘ |
| country | Philippines ⓘ |
| ecoregionStatus | biodiversity hotspot ⓘ |
| governedBy | Philippine national jurisdiction ⓘ |
| hasCurrent | local circulation influenced by monsoon winds ⓘ |
| hasDiveSite |
Apo Island
ⓘ
Balicasag Island ⓘ Camiguin dive sites ⓘ Pamilacan Island ⓘ |
| hasIsland |
Camiguin Island
ⓘ
surface form:
Camiguin
Siquijor ⓘ |
| hasMarineSpecies |
dolphins
ⓘ
hard corals ⓘ sea turtles ⓘ soft corals ⓘ various reef fish ⓘ whale sharks ⓘ |
| hasPort |
Port of Cagayan de Oro
ⓘ
surface form:
Cagayan de Oro Port
Dumaguete Port ⓘ Tagbilaran City Port ⓘ
surface form:
Tagbilaran Port
|
| knownFor |
coral reefs
ⓘ
deep basin topography ⓘ popular dive sites ⓘ rich marine biodiversity ⓘ whale and dolphin watching ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southern Philippines ⓘ |
| maximumDepth | about 3000 meters ⓘ |
| near |
Bohol Strait
ⓘ
Surigao Strait ⓘ |
| partOf |
Philippine Archipelago
ⓘ
surface form:
Philippine archipelago
western Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| usedFor |
fishing
ⓘ
marine transportation ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
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: Bohol Sea Description of subject: The Bohol Sea, also known as the Mindanao Sea, is a deep basin in the southern Philippines renowned for its rich marine biodiversity and popular dive sites.
Referenced by (54)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bohol Sea area