Tasman Sea
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The Tasman Sea is the body of water separating Australia and New Zealand, known for its often rough conditions and significance to regional shipping and marine life.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tasman Sea canonical | 383 |
| Tasman | 2 |
| Southwestern Pacific Ocean | 1 |
| Tasman Sea (nearby ocean) | 1 |
| Tasman Sea (via Jervis Bay) | 1 |
| Tasman Sea basin | 1 |
| Tasman Sea opening | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T27364 — 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: Tasman Sea Context triple: [Pacific Ocean, containsFeature, Tasman Sea]
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A.
Coral Sea
The Coral Sea is a marginal sea off the northeast coast of Australia, renowned for its clear waters, rich marine biodiversity, and the Great Barrier Reef.
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B.
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the world’s third-largest ocean, lying between Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Southern Ocean, and serving as a major route for global trade and maritime activity.
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C.
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest ocean on Earth, spanning from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean and from Asia and Australia to the Americas.
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D.
Philippine Sea
The Philippine Sea is a large marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, lying east of the Philippines and south of Japan, known for its deep ocean trenches and strategic importance.
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E.
Southern Ocean
The Southern Ocean is the remote, icy ocean encircling Antarctica, known for its powerful circumpolar currents, rich marine ecosystems, and crucial role in regulating Earth’s climate.
- 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: Tasman Sea Target entity description: The Tasman Sea is the body of water separating Australia and New Zealand, known for its often rough conditions and significance to regional shipping and marine life.
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A.
Coral Sea
The Coral Sea is a marginal sea off the northeast coast of Australia, renowned for its clear waters, rich marine biodiversity, and the Great Barrier Reef.
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B.
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the world’s third-largest ocean, lying between Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Southern Ocean, and serving as a major route for global trade and maritime activity.
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C.
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest ocean on Earth, spanning from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean and from Asia and Australia to the Americas.
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D.
Philippine Sea
The Philippine Sea is a large marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, lying east of the Philippines and south of Japan, known for its deep ocean trenches and strategic importance.
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E.
Southern Ocean
The Southern Ocean is the remote, icy ocean encircling Antarctica, known for its powerful circumpolar currents, rich marine ecosystems, and crucial role in regulating Earth’s climate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Tasman Sea Description of subject: The Tasman Sea is the body of water separating Australia and New Zealand, known for its often rough conditions and significance to regional shipping and marine life.
Referenced by (390)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Cook Strait region (southern North Island and northern South Island)
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bordersBodyOfWater
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Tasman Sea
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subject surface form:
Cook Strait region
subject surface form:
Stockton, New South Wales
subject surface form:
Mount Pleasant, New South Wales
subject surface form:
Kapiti Island
subject surface form:
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