Molucca Sea
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The Molucca Sea is a marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, located between Sulawesi and the Maluku Islands in Indonesia and known for its deep basins and tectonic activity.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Molucca Sea canonical | 18 |
| Molucca Sea Collision Zone | 2 |
| Ceram Sea | 1 |
| Halmahera Sea | 1 |
| Molucca Sea collision zone | 1 |
| Molucca Sea region | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T945237 — 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: Molucca Sea Context triple: [Celebes Sea, connectedTo, Molucca Sea]
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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.
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Solomon Sea
The Solomon Sea is a marginal sea of the southwestern Pacific Ocean located between Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, known for its deep basins and significant role in World War II naval battles.
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Timor Sea
The Timor Sea is a tropical marginal sea in the eastern Indian Ocean, lying between Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and northern Australia, known for its rich offshore oil and gas reserves.
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Flores Sea
The Flores Sea is a marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, located in Indonesia between the islands of Flores, Sulawesi, and Sumbawa, and known for its deep basins and rich marine biodiversity.
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Banda Sea
The Banda Sea is a deep, tectonically active marginal sea in the eastern Indonesian archipelago, known for its complex basins, volcanic islands, and rich marine biodiversity.
- 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: Molucca Sea Target entity description: The Molucca Sea is a marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, located between Sulawesi and the Maluku Islands in Indonesia and known for its deep basins and tectonic activity.
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A.
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.
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B.
Solomon Sea
The Solomon Sea is a marginal sea of the southwestern Pacific Ocean located between Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, known for its deep basins and significant role in World War II naval battles.
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C.
Timor Sea
The Timor Sea is a tropical marginal sea in the eastern Indian Ocean, lying between Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and northern Australia, known for its rich offshore oil and gas reserves.
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D.
Flores Sea
The Flores Sea is a marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, located in Indonesia between the islands of Flores, Sulawesi, and Sumbawa, and known for its deep basins and rich marine biodiversity.
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E.
Banda Sea
The Banda Sea is a deep, tectonically active marginal sea in the eastern Indonesian archipelago, known for its complex basins, volcanic islands, and rich marine biodiversity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Molucca Sea Description of subject: The Molucca Sea is a marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, located between Sulawesi and the Maluku Islands in Indonesia and known for its deep basins and tectonic activity.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ceram Sea
this entity surface form:
Halmahera Sea
this entity surface form:
Molucca Sea Collision Zone
subject surface form:
Eastern Indonesia
this entity surface form:
Molucca Sea region
this entity surface form:
Molucca Sea collision zone
this entity surface form:
Molucca Sea Collision Zone