Submerged Lands Act
E181966
The Submerged Lands Act is a U.S. federal law that grants coastal states ownership and control over natural resources in the submerged lands and seabed within their territorial waters, typically extending three nautical miles from the coastline.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Submerged Lands Act canonical | 6 |
| Submerged Lands Act (as to boundary with state waters) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1606592 — 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: Submerged Lands Act Context triple: [Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, relatedTo, Submerged Lands Act]
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A.
Rivers and Harbors Act of 1937
The Rivers and Harbors Act of 1937 is a U.S. federal law that, among other water infrastructure measures, authorized major reclamation and water management projects in California’s Central Valley.
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B.
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act
The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act is a U.S. federal law that governs the exploration and development of offshore oil, gas, and other mineral resources on the outer continental shelf.
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C.
Guano Islands Act
The Guano Islands Act is an 1856 United States federal law that allowed U.S. citizens to claim unoccupied islands containing guano deposits for the United States.
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D.
Butler Act
The Butler Act was a Tennessee state law enacted in 1925 that prohibited the teaching of human evolution in public schools, becoming infamous as the focus of the Scopes "Monkey" Trial.
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E.
Reclamation Act of 1902
The Reclamation Act of 1902 is a U.S. federal law that launched large-scale, federally funded irrigation and water management projects to promote agricultural development and settlement in the arid Western states.
- 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: Submerged Lands Act Target entity description: The Submerged Lands Act is a U.S. federal law that grants coastal states ownership and control over natural resources in the submerged lands and seabed within their territorial waters, typically extending three nautical miles from the coastline.
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A.
Rivers and Harbors Act of 1937
The Rivers and Harbors Act of 1937 is a U.S. federal law that, among other water infrastructure measures, authorized major reclamation and water management projects in California’s Central Valley.
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B.
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act
The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act is a U.S. federal law that governs the exploration and development of offshore oil, gas, and other mineral resources on the outer continental shelf.
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C.
Guano Islands Act
The Guano Islands Act is an 1856 United States federal law that allowed U.S. citizens to claim unoccupied islands containing guano deposits for the United States.
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D.
Butler Act
The Butler Act was a Tennessee state law enacted in 1925 that prohibited the teaching of human evolution in public schools, becoming infamous as the focus of the Scopes "Monkey" Trial.
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E.
Reclamation Act of 1902
The Reclamation Act of 1902 is a U.S. federal law that launched large-scale, federally funded irrigation and water management projects to promote agricultural development and settlement in the arid Western states.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States federal law
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statute ⓘ |
| appliesTo | coastal states of the United States ⓘ |
| beneficiary | U.S. coastal states ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| covers |
marine resources in submerged lands within state jurisdiction
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mineral resources in submerged lands within state jurisdiction ⓘ submerged lands beneath navigable waters within state boundaries ⓘ |
| defines |
seaward boundary of coastal states for resource ownership
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state ownership of seabed within territorial waters ⓘ |
| grants |
rights to natural resources in submerged lands to coastal states
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title to submerged lands to coastal states ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States government
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surface form:
United States federal government
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| legalEffect | transfers certain offshore resource rights from federal government to states ⓘ |
| purpose | clarify ownership and control of offshore submerged lands and resources between federal government and states ⓘ |
| regulates |
control of natural resources in submerged lands
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ownership of submerged lands ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act
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territorial sea of the United States ⓘ |
| shortName | Submerged Lands Act self-link ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
natural resources
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seabed ⓘ submerged lands ⓘ territorial waters ⓘ |
| typeOfOwnership | state ownership of submerged lands and resources ⓘ |
| typicalExtent | three nautical miles from the coastline ⓘ |
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: Submerged Lands Act Description of subject: The Submerged Lands Act is a U.S. federal law that grants coastal states ownership and control over natural resources in the submerged lands and seabed within their territorial waters, typically extending three nautical miles from the coastline.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Submerged Lands Act (as to boundary with state waters)