Kunashir

E162445

disputed territory island volcanic island

Kunashir is the southernmost of the Kuril Islands, a volcanically active island whose sovereignty is disputed between Russia and Japan.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Kunashir Island	15
Kunashir canonical	8
Kunashiri Island	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	disputed territory ⓘ island ⓘ volcanic island ⓘ
administeredBy	Russia ⓘ
belongsToArchipelago	Kuril Islands ⓘ
borderedBy	Nemuro Strait ⓘ
claimedAs	Northern Territories by Japan ⓘ
climateType	humid continental climate ⓘ
countryClaimedBy	Japan ⓘ Russia ⓘ
currentStatus	administered by Russia, claimed by Japan ⓘ
disputedBetween	Russia and Japan ⓘ
hasArea	about 1490 km² ⓘ
hasBiodiversity	brown bears ⓘ mixed forests ⓘ rich marine life ⓘ seabird colonies ⓘ
hasGeologicalFeature	fumaroles ⓘ hot springs ⓘ stratovolcanoes ⓘ
hasHighestPoint	Tyatya volcano ⓘ
hasHighestPointElevation	1819 m ⓘ
hasLength	about 123 km ⓘ
hasMainSettlement	Yuzhno-Kurilsk ⓘ
hasPopulationCharacteristic	sparsely populated ⓘ
hasPrimaryEconomicActivity	fish processing ⓘ fishing ⓘ small-scale agriculture ⓘ tourism ⓘ
hasVolcano	Golovnin ⓘ Mendeleev ⓘ Rurui ⓘ Tyatya ⓘ
hasWidth	up to about 30 km ⓘ
historicallyControlledBy	Japan ⓘ surface form: Empire of Japan Russian Empire ⓘ Soviet Union ⓘ
isVolcanicallyActive	true ⓘ
locatedIn	Kuril Islands ⓘ Northern Pacific Ocean ⓘ surface form: North Pacific Ocean Sea of Okhotsk ⓘ
nearbyIsland	Hokkaido ⓘ Iturup ⓘ Shikotan ⓘ
partOf	Sakhalin Oblast ⓘ Yuzhno-Kurilsky District ⓘ
separatedFrom	Hokkaido ⓘ
southernmostOf	Kuril Islands ⓘ
strategicImportance	controls sea routes between Sea of Okhotsk and Pacific Ocean ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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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: Kunashir
Description of subject: Kunashir is the southernmost of the Kuril Islands, a volcanically active island whose sovereignty is disputed between Russia and Japan.

Referenced by (24)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kuril Islands → hasMajorIsland → Kunashir ⓘ

Kuril Islands → hasDisputedIslands → Kunashir ⓘ

Soviet occupation of Kuril Islands → appliesToPart → Kunashir ⓘ

Northern Territories Affairs Administration → dealsWith → Kunashir ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kunashiri Island

Northern Territories dispute → concernsIslands → Kunashir ⓘ

Northern Territories dispute → RussiaControls → Kunashir ⓘ

Yuzhno-Kurilsk Mendeleyevo Airport → locatedOn → Kunashir ⓘ