Panay Gulf
E141820
Panay Gulf is a body of water in the central Philippines that separates Panay Island from Negros Island and connects to the Sulu Sea.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Panay Gulf canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T807518 — 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: Panay Gulf Context triple: [Visayas, bodyOfWater, Panay Gulf]
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A.
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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B.
Bohol Sea
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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C.
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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D.
Samar Sea
The Samar Sea is a small sea in the central Philippines, bordered by the islands of Samar, Masbate, Leyte, and others, and known for its rich marine biodiversity and fishing grounds.
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E.
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.
- 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: Panay Gulf Target entity description: Panay Gulf is a body of water in the central Philippines that separates Panay Island from Negros Island and connects to the Sulu Sea.
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A.
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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B.
Bohol Sea
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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C.
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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D.
Samar Sea
The Samar Sea is a small sea in the central Philippines, bordered by the islands of Samar, Masbate, Leyte, and others, and known for its rich marine biodiversity and fishing grounds.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
body of water
ⓘ
gulf ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Philippines ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Guimaras
ⓘ
surface form:
Guimaras Island
Negros Island ⓘ Panay Island ⓘ |
| connectedViaStraitTo | Iloilo Strait ⓘ |
| connectsTo | Sulu Sea ⓘ |
| country | Philippines ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
fishing
ⓘ
inter-island transport ⓘ shipping ⓘ |
| hasNearbyCity |
Bacolod
ⓘ
Iloilo City ⓘ |
| hasNearbyIsland | Guimaras ⓘ |
| hasNearbyPort |
Port of Iloilo
ⓘ
Pulupandan Port ⓘ |
| hasNearbyStrait | Guimaras Strait ⓘ |
| hasUse |
access route to Bacolod City
ⓘ
access route to Iloilo City ⓘ sea route between Panay and Negros ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Philippine archipelagic waters ⓘ |
| locatedBetween | Panay Island and Negros Island ⓘ |
| locatedEastOf | Sulu Sea ⓘ |
| locatedIn | central Philippines ⓘ |
| locatedInIslandGroup | Visayas ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Western Visayas ⓘ |
| locatedWestOf | Guimaras Strait ⓘ |
| partOf | Visayan Sea region ⓘ |
| separates |
Negros Island
ⓘ
Panay Island ⓘ |
| waterBodyType | marine gulf ⓘ |
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: Panay Gulf Description of subject: Panay Gulf is a body of water in the central Philippines that separates Panay Island from Negros Island and connects to the Sulu Sea.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Pontevedra, Capiz