Yellow Sea
E22214
The Yellow Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula, known for its shallow waters and significant shipping and fishing activities.
All labels observed (18)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yellow Sea canonical | 137 |
| West Sea of Korea | 5 |
| Yellow Sea basin | 3 |
| Yellow Sea coast | 3 |
| South Sea of Korea | 2 |
| Yellow Sea ecoregion | 2 |
| Seas of Korea | 1 |
| The Yellow Sea | 1 |
| West Sea | 1 |
| Yellow Sea coastal region | 1 |
| Yellow Sea region | 1 |
| Yellow Sea system | 1 |
| Yellow Sea theater | 1 |
| Yellow Sea theater of operations | 1 |
| Yellow Sea to the east | 1 |
| Yellow Sea via Bohai Sea | 1 |
| 东海 | 1 |
| 黄海 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T105721 — 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: Yellow Sea Context triple: [East China Sea, borderedBy, Yellow Sea]
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A.
East China Sea
The East China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean located between China, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, known for its busy shipping routes and significant geopolitical and economic importance.
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B.
Sea of Japan
The Sea of Japan is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean located between the Japanese archipelago, the Korean Peninsula, and Russia, known for its rich fisheries and strategic shipping routes.
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C.
Sea of Okhotsk
The Sea of Okhotsk is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean bordered by Russia and Japan, known for its rich fisheries, seasonal sea ice, and harsh subarctic climate.
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D.
Korea Strait
The Korea Strait is a narrow body of water between the Korean Peninsula and Japan that forms a key maritime passage linking the East China Sea with the Sea of Japan.
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E.
Philippine Sea
The Philippine Sea is a large marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, lying east of the Philippines and south of Japan, known for its deep ocean trenches and strategic importance.
- 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: Yellow Sea Target entity description: The Yellow Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula, known for its shallow waters and significant shipping and fishing activities.
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A.
East China Sea
The East China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean located between China, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, known for its busy shipping routes and significant geopolitical and economic importance.
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B.
Sea of Japan
The Sea of Japan is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean located between the Japanese archipelago, the Korean Peninsula, and Russia, known for its rich fisheries and strategic shipping routes.
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C.
Sea of Okhotsk
The Sea of Okhotsk is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean bordered by Russia and Japan, known for its rich fisheries, seasonal sea ice, and harsh subarctic climate.
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D.
Korea Strait
The Korea Strait is a narrow body of water between the Korean Peninsula and Japan that forms a key maritime passage linking the East China Sea with the Sea of Japan.
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E.
Philippine Sea
The Philippine Sea is a large marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean, lying east of the Philippines and south of Japan, known for its deep ocean trenches and strategic importance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
marginal sea
ⓘ
sea ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Bohai Sea
ⓘ
China ⓘ North Korea ⓘ South Korea ⓘ |
| colourCausedBy | sediment from rivers ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Bohai Sea
ⓘ
East China Sea ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Huang Hai
ⓘ
Yellow Sea ⓘ
surface form:
West Sea of Korea
|
| hasArea | about 380000 square kilometres ⓘ |
| hasAverageDepth | about 44 metres ⓘ |
| hasClimate | temperate ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
commercial fishing
ⓘ
maritime shipping ⓘ offshore oil and gas exploration ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentalIssue |
eutrophication
ⓘ
overfishing ⓘ pollution ⓘ |
| hasFeature | large tidal ranges in some coastal areas ⓘ |
| hasIsland |
Chongming District
ⓘ
surface form:
Chongming Island
Jeju Island ⓘ |
| hasMajorPort |
Busan
ⓘ
Port of Dalian ⓘ
surface form:
Dalian
Incheon ⓘ Qingdao ⓘ Tianjin ⓘ |
| hasMaximumDepth | about 152 metres ⓘ |
| hasNotableBay |
Bohai Sea
ⓘ
surface form:
Bohai Bay
Korea Bay ⓘ |
| hasNotableCurrent |
China Coastal Current
ⓘ
China Coastal Current ⓘ
surface form:
Korea Coastal Current
Tsushima Current ⓘ
surface form:
Yellow Sea Warm Current
|
| hasSalinity | lower than open ocean average ⓘ |
| hasSeaSurfaceFreezing | in northern parts during winter ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
heavy shipping traffic
ⓘ
high sediment load ⓘ important fishing grounds ⓘ shallow waters ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | territorial disputes in some areas ⓘ |
| locatedBetween |
Korean Peninsula
ⓘ
China ⓘ
surface form:
mainland China
|
| locatedIn | East Asia ⓘ |
| namedAfter | yellowish colour of its waters ⓘ |
| partOf |
western Pacific Ocean
ⓘ
surface form:
Western Pacific Ocean
|
| receivesWaterFrom |
Huai River
ⓘ
Yangtze River ⓘ Yellow River ⓘ |
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: Yellow Sea Description of subject: The Yellow Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula, known for its shallow waters and significant shipping and fishing activities.
Referenced by (164)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Yellow Sea
subject surface form:
Wilgelm Vitgeft
subject surface form:
Incheon
this entity surface form:
West Sea of Korea