Port of Dalian
E146531
The Port of Dalian is a major deep-water seaport in northeastern China that serves as a key gateway for international trade and shipping in the Bohai Sea region.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dalian Port | 4 |
| Port of Dalian canonical | 4 |
| Dalian | 3 |
| 大連港 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1038256 — 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: Port of Dalian Context triple: [Eastern China, hasMajorPort, Port of Dalian]
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A.
Port of Tianjin
The Port of Tianjin is one of China’s largest and busiest seaports, serving as a major maritime gateway to Beijing and the industrial north.
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B.
Port of Qingdao
The Port of Qingdao is one of the world’s busiest and most important seaports, serving as a major international trade and shipping hub on China’s Yellow Sea coast.
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C.
Port of Shanghai
The Port of Shanghai is the world’s busiest container port and a major global shipping and logistics hub located at the mouth of the Yangtze River in eastern China.
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D.
Port of Shenzhen
The Port of Shenzhen is one of the world’s busiest and most important container ports, serving as a major gateway for China’s international trade and manufacturing exports.
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E.
Shenzhen Bay Port
Shenzhen Bay Port is a major land-border crossing and transportation hub linking Shenzhen in mainland China with Hong Kong, facilitating significant passenger and cargo movement between the two regions.
- 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: Port of Dalian Target entity description: The Port of Dalian is a major deep-water seaport in northeastern China that serves as a key gateway for international trade and shipping in the Bohai Sea region.
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A.
Port of Tianjin
The Port of Tianjin is one of China’s largest and busiest seaports, serving as a major maritime gateway to Beijing and the industrial north.
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B.
Port of Qingdao
The Port of Qingdao is one of the world’s busiest and most important seaports, serving as a major international trade and shipping hub on China’s Yellow Sea coast.
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C.
Port of Shanghai
The Port of Shanghai is the world’s busiest container port and a major global shipping and logistics hub located at the mouth of the Yangtze River in eastern China.
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D.
Port of Shenzhen
The Port of Shenzhen is one of the world’s busiest and most important container ports, serving as a major gateway for China’s international trade and manufacturing exports.
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E.
Shenzhen Bay Port
Shenzhen Bay Port is a major land-border crossing and transportation hub linking Shenzhen in mainland China with Hong Kong, facilitating significant passenger and cargo movement between the two regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
container port
ⓘ
deep-water port ⓘ seaport ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
China Belt and Road Initiative
ⓘ
surface form:
Belt and Road Initiative maritime routes
|
| connectedTo |
China Railway
ⓘ
surface form:
Chinese national railway network
Trans-Siberian rail routes via inland connections ⓘ expressway network of Northeast China ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| governingBody | Dalian Municipal People’s Government ⓘ |
| handles |
automobiles
ⓘ
coal ⓘ containers ⓘ crude oil ⓘ grain ⓘ iron ore ⓘ refined oil products ⓘ |
| hasBerthsFor |
VLCC oil tankers
ⓘ
bulk carriers ⓘ large container ships ⓘ passenger ferries ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
LNG terminals
ⓘ
bulk cargo terminals ⓘ container terminals ⓘ oil terminals ⓘ passenger terminals ⓘ ro-ro terminals ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Dalian
ⓘ
Liaoning ⓘ
surface form:
Liaoning Province
Manchuria ⓘ
surface form:
Northeast China
|
| locatedOn |
Bohai Sea
ⓘ
Yellow Sea ⓘ |
| majorFunction |
bulk cargo handling
ⓘ
container handling ⓘ international trade gateway ⓘ oil and petrochemical terminal ⓘ passenger transport ⓘ |
| nearbyCity | Dalian urban area ⓘ |
| operator | Dalian Port Corporation Limited ⓘ |
| partOf | Bohai Rim port cluster ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Bohai Sea
ⓘ
surface form:
Bohai Sea region
Manchuria ⓘ
surface form:
Northeast China
|
| servesAs |
gateway port for Northeast China
ⓘ
transshipment hub in North China ⓘ |
| servesTradeWith |
Japan
ⓘ
Russia ⓘ South Korea ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| strategicImportance |
important outlet to the Pacific for Northeast China
ⓘ
key port for China’s northern maritime trade ⓘ |
| UNLocode | CNDLC ⓘ |
| waterDepth | deep-water berths suitable for large ocean-going vessels ⓘ |
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: Port of Dalian Description of subject: The Port of Dalian is a major deep-water seaport in northeastern China that serves as a key gateway for international trade and shipping in the Bohai Sea region.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dalian
this entity surface form:
Dalian
subject surface form:
Eastern China
this entity surface form:
Dalian Port
this entity surface form:
Dalian Port
this entity surface form:
Dalian Port
this entity surface form:
Dalian Port