New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone
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The New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone is a vast maritime area surrounding New Zealand over which the country has special rights to explore, manage, and use marine resources.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New Zealand continental shelf | 3 |
| New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone canonical | 2 |
| Exclusive Economic Zone of New Zealand | 1 |
| New Zealand EEZ | 1 |
| New Zealand exclusive economic zone | 1 |
| New Zealand maritime domain | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1600040 — 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: New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone Context triple: [Royal New Zealand Navy, operatesIn, New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone]
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A.
Australian Exclusive Economic Zone
The Australian Exclusive Economic Zone is a vast maritime area surrounding Australia over which it has special rights to explore, exploit, conserve, and manage marine resources under international law.
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B.
Zealandia ecosanctuary
Zealandia ecosanctuary is a protected natural reserve and wildlife sanctuary in Wellington, New Zealand, dedicated to restoring native ecosystems and reintroducing indigenous species.
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C.
U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone
The U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone is a vast maritime area extending from the U.S. coastline in which the United States has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.
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D.
Coral Sea Marine Park
Coral Sea Marine Park is a vast Australian marine protected area renowned for its rich coral reef ecosystems, diverse marine life, and important role in ocean conservation in the Coral Sea region.
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E.
Lamlash Bay no-take zone
Lamlash Bay no-take zone is a fully protected marine reserve off the Isle of Arran in Scotland, renowned as the country’s first community-led no-take marine conservation area.
- 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: New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone Target entity description: The New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone is a vast maritime area surrounding New Zealand over which the country has special rights to explore, manage, and use marine resources.
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A.
Australian Exclusive Economic Zone
The Australian Exclusive Economic Zone is a vast maritime area surrounding Australia over which it has special rights to explore, exploit, conserve, and manage marine resources under international law.
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B.
Zealandia ecosanctuary
Zealandia ecosanctuary is a protected natural reserve and wildlife sanctuary in Wellington, New Zealand, dedicated to restoring native ecosystems and reintroducing indigenous species.
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C.
U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone
The U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone is a vast maritime area extending from the U.S. coastline in which the United States has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.
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D.
Coral Sea Marine Park
Coral Sea Marine Park is a vast Australian marine protected area renowned for its rich coral reef ecosystems, diverse marine life, and important role in ocean conservation in the Coral Sea region.
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E.
Lamlash Bay no-take zone
Lamlash Bay no-take zone is a fully protected marine reserve off the Isle of Arran in Scotland, renowned as the country’s first community-led no-take marine conservation area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
exclusive economic zone
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maritime zone ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
New Zealand EEZ
|
| adjacentTo |
Australian Exclusive Economic Zone
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French Southern and Antarctic Lands maritime zones ⓘ high seas ⓘ |
| area | about 4,083,744 square kilometres ⓘ |
| areaRank | one of the largest EEZs in the world ⓘ |
| boundaryType | maritime boundary ⓘ |
| containsEcosystem |
deep-sea ecosystems
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seamount ecosystems ⓘ |
| containsResource |
fisheries resources
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hydrocarbon resources ⓘ seabed minerals ⓘ |
| containsSpecies |
commercial fish species
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marine mammals ⓘ seabirds ⓘ |
| country | New Zealand ⓘ |
| environmentalImpactRegulatedBy | Environmental Protection Authority of New Zealand ⓘ |
| establishedUnder | New Zealand legislation implementing UNCLOS ⓘ |
| fishingRegulatedBy |
New Zealand regulatory agencies
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surface form:
Quota Management System of New Zealand
|
| governedBy | Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Act 2012 ⓘ |
| includesWatersAround |
Antipodes Islands
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New Zealand subantarctic islands ⓘ
surface form:
Auckland Islands
Bounty Islands ⓘ Campbell Island ⓘ Chatham Islands ⓘ Kermadec Islands ⓘ North Island ⓘ Snares Islands ⓘ South Island ⓘ Stewart Island / Rakiura ⓘ |
| legalBasis | United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
South Pacific Ocean
ⓘ
Southern Ocean ⓘ |
| managedBy |
Department of Conservation (New Zealand)
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surface form:
Department of Conservation of New Zealand
Environmental Protection Authority of New Zealand ⓘ Ministry for Primary Industries ⓘ |
| maximumExtentFromBaseline | 200 nautical miles ⓘ |
| partOf |
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
New Zealand maritime domain
|
| purpose |
conservation of marine environment
ⓘ
management and use of marine resources ⓘ |
| resourceRights |
jurisdiction over artificial islands, installations and structures
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jurisdiction over marine scientific research ⓘ jurisdiction over protection and preservation of the marine environment ⓘ sovereign rights for exploring, exploiting, conserving and managing natural resources ⓘ |
| sovereignRightsHolder |
New Zealand government
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surface form:
New Zealand Government
|
| surrounds | New Zealand ⓘ |
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: New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone Description of subject: The New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone is a vast maritime area surrounding New Zealand over which the country has special rights to explore, manage, and use marine resources.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Exclusive Economic Zone of New Zealand
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone
→
abbreviation
→
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
New Zealand EEZ
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone
→
partOf
→
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
New Zealand maritime domain
this entity surface form:
New Zealand continental shelf
this entity surface form:
New Zealand continental shelf
this entity surface form:
New Zealand exclusive economic zone
this entity surface form:
New Zealand continental shelf