Madura Island
E168517
Madura Island is an Indonesian island off the northeastern coast of Java, known for its distinct Madurese culture, traditional bull races (karapan sapi), and salt production.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madura Island canonical | 19 |
| Madura Island, East Java | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1053605 — 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: Madura Island Context triple: [Madurese, primaryRegion, Madura Island]
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A.
Iki Island
Iki Island is a Japanese island in the Tsushima Strait known for its historic role in Japan–Korea maritime routes, scenic coastlines, and ancient cultural sites.
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B.
Malapascua Island
Malapascua Island is a small Philippine island in the Visayas renowned for its pristine beaches and as one of the world’s few reliable dive spots to see thresher sharks.
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C.
Banaba Island
Banaba Island is a raised coral island in the Pacific Ocean that is part of Kiribati and historically known for its rich phosphate deposits.
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D.
Kalanggaman Island
Kalanggaman Island is a small, pristine sandbar island in the Philippines known for its crystal-clear waters, white sand beaches, and popular snorkeling and diving spots.
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E.
Flores
Flores is a large island in eastern Indonesia known for its volcanic landscapes, traditional villages, and proximity to Komodo National Park with its famous Komodo dragons.
- 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: Madura Island Target entity description: Madura Island is an Indonesian island off the northeastern coast of Java, known for its distinct Madurese culture, traditional bull races (karapan sapi), and salt production.
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A.
Iki Island
Iki Island is a Japanese island in the Tsushima Strait known for its historic role in Japan–Korea maritime routes, scenic coastlines, and ancient cultural sites.
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B.
Malapascua Island
Malapascua Island is a small Philippine island in the Visayas renowned for its pristine beaches and as one of the world’s few reliable dive spots to see thresher sharks.
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C.
Banaba Island
Banaba Island is a raised coral island in the Pacific Ocean that is part of Kiribati and historically known for its rich phosphate deposits.
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D.
Kalanggaman Island
Kalanggaman Island is a small, pristine sandbar island in the Philippines known for its crystal-clear waters, white sand beaches, and popular snorkeling and diving spots.
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E.
Flores
Flores is a large island in eastern Indonesia known for its volcanic landscapes, traditional villages, and proximity to Komodo National Park with its famous Komodo dragons.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Madura Island Description of subject: Madura Island is an Indonesian island off the northeastern coast of Java, known for its distinct Madurese culture, traditional bull races (karapan sapi), and salt production.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Madura Island, East Java