Port of Yangon
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The Port of Yangon is Myanmar’s principal seaport and trade gateway, handling the majority of the country’s maritime cargo and connecting it to regional and global shipping routes.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Port of Yangon canonical | 5 |
| Inland Container Depot at Yangon | 1 |
| Rangoon was a key Burmese port city at the time | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1965820 — 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: Port of Yangon Context triple: [Yangon, hasPort, Port of Yangon]
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A.
Port of Singapore
The Port of Singapore is one of the world’s busiest and most important maritime hubs, serving as a major global transshipment and logistics center.
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B.
Tien Sa Port
Tien Sa Port is a major deep-water seaport in Da Nang, Vietnam, serving as a key hub for cargo shipping and cruise tourism in the central region.
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C.
Bangkok Port
Bangkok Port is a major seaport and logistics hub serving Thailand’s capital city and central region.
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D.
Lach Huyen International Gateway Port
Lach Huyen International Gateway Port is a deep-water seaport near Hai Phong, Vietnam, designed as a major international cargo hub capable of accommodating large container vessels and boosting the region’s maritime trade.
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E.
Mayabunder port
Mayabunder port is a coastal harbor and transport hub on Middle Andaman Island in India’s Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, serving regional passenger and cargo traffic.
- 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: Port of Yangon Target entity description: The Port of Yangon is Myanmar’s principal seaport and trade gateway, handling the majority of the country’s maritime cargo and connecting it to regional and global shipping routes.
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A.
Port of Singapore
The Port of Singapore is one of the world’s busiest and most important maritime hubs, serving as a major global transshipment and logistics center.
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B.
Tien Sa Port
Tien Sa Port is a major deep-water seaport in Da Nang, Vietnam, serving as a key hub for cargo shipping and cruise tourism in the central region.
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C.
Bangkok Port
Bangkok Port is a major seaport and logistics hub serving Thailand’s capital city and central region.
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D.
Lach Huyen International Gateway Port
Lach Huyen International Gateway Port is a deep-water seaport near Hai Phong, Vietnam, designed as a major international cargo hub capable of accommodating large container vessels and boosting the region’s maritime trade.
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E.
Mayabunder port
Mayabunder port is a coastal harbor and transport hub on Middle Andaman Island in India’s Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, serving regional passenger and cargo traffic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
river port
ⓘ
seaport ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Bay of Bengal maritime routes
ⓘ
Indo-Pacific sea lanes of communication ⓘ
surface form:
Indian Ocean shipping lanes
|
| connectsTo |
global shipping routes
ⓘ
regional shipping routes ⓘ |
| country | Myanmar ⓘ |
| function | trade gateway of Myanmar ⓘ |
| governedBy | Ministry of Transport and Communications of Myanmar ⓘ |
| handlesMajorityOf | Myanmar maritime cargo ⓘ |
| hasBerthType |
deep-water berths
ⓘ
river berths ⓘ |
| hasCustomsFacility | Myanmar Customs Department offices ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
bulk cargo terminals
ⓘ
container terminals ⓘ general cargo terminals ⓘ inland container depots ⓘ oil and fuel terminals ⓘ warehouses ⓘ |
| hasNavigationConstraint |
river draft limitations
ⓘ
tidal restrictions ⓘ |
| hasSecurity | port security and immigration control ⓘ |
| isPrincipalSeaportOf | Myanmar ⓘ |
| linkedBy |
rail network of Myanmar
ⓘ
road network of Myanmar ⓘ |
| linkedToInlandPort |
Port of Yangon
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Inland Container Depot at Yangon
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| locatedIn |
Yangon
ⓘ
Yangon Region ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Gulf of Martaban ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterbody |
Bago River
ⓘ
Yangon River ⓘ |
| managedBy | Myanma Port Authority ⓘ |
| nearbyInfrastructure |
Thilawa Special Economic Zone
ⓘ
Yangon ⓘ
surface form:
Yangon industrial zones
|
| operator | Myanma Port Authority ⓘ |
| partOf | Myanmar port system ⓘ |
| regionServed | Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| servesCity | Yangon ⓘ |
| servesIndustry |
agricultural exports
ⓘ
imported consumer goods ⓘ manufacturing exports ⓘ |
| servesRegion |
southern Myanmar
ⓘ
surface form:
Lower Myanmar
|
| strategicImportance | main maritime gateway for Myanmar trade ⓘ |
| subjectTo | monsoon climate conditions ⓘ |
| supportsActivity |
break-bulk cargo handling
ⓘ
bulk commodity exports ⓘ container shipping ⓘ import of fuel and machinery ⓘ |
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: Port of Yangon Description of subject: The Port of Yangon is Myanmar’s principal seaport and trade gateway, handling the majority of the country’s maritime cargo and connecting it to regional and global shipping routes.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Inland Container Depot at Yangon
this entity surface form:
Rangoon was a key Burmese port city at the time