United Kingdom territorial waters
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United Kingdom territorial waters are the maritime areas extending from the UK’s coastline over which it exercises full sovereignty and jurisdiction, including parts of surrounding seas such as the North Sea, English Channel, Irish Sea, and Atlantic approaches.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom territorial waters canonical | 4 |
| United Kingdom exclusive economic zone | 2 |
| United Kingdom maritime zones | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1975223 — 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: United Kingdom territorial waters Context triple: [North Channel, belongsToMaritimeZone, United Kingdom territorial waters]
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A.
United States territorial waters
United States territorial waters are the maritime zones adjacent to the U.S. coast over which the United States exercises sovereignty and jurisdiction, typically extending up to 12 nautical miles from its shorelines.
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B.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom is a sovereign country in northwestern Europe comprising England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, known for its parliamentary democracy, global cultural influence, and historic role in world affairs.
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C.
Great Britain
Great Britain is the name used by the United Kingdom’s athletes competing together as a single national team at the Olympic Games.
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D.
Great Britain
Great Britain is the large island comprising England, Scotland, and Wales, historically central to the development of the United Kingdom and the British Empire.
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E.
Admiralty (United Kingdom)
Admiralty (United Kingdom) was the historic government department and naval command responsible for administering and directing the Royal Navy.
- 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: United Kingdom territorial waters Target entity description: United Kingdom territorial waters are the maritime areas extending from the UK’s coastline over which it exercises full sovereignty and jurisdiction, including parts of surrounding seas such as the North Sea, English Channel, Irish Sea, and Atlantic approaches.
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A.
United States territorial waters
United States territorial waters are the maritime zones adjacent to the U.S. coast over which the United States exercises sovereignty and jurisdiction, typically extending up to 12 nautical miles from its shorelines.
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B.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom is a sovereign country in northwestern Europe comprising England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, known for its parliamentary democracy, global cultural influence, and historic role in world affairs.
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C.
Great Britain
Great Britain is the name used by the United Kingdom’s athletes competing together as a single national team at the Olympic Games.
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D.
Great Britain
Great Britain is the large island comprising England, Scotland, and Wales, historically central to the development of the United Kingdom and the British Empire.
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E.
Admiralty (United Kingdom)
Admiralty (United Kingdom) was the historic government department and naval command responsible for administering and directing the Royal Navy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
maritime zone
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territorial waters ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
territorial waters of Belgium
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territorial waters of Denmark ⓘ territorial waters of France ⓘ territorial waters of Germany ⓘ territorial waters of Iceland ⓘ territorial waters of Ireland ⓘ territorial waters of Norway ⓘ territorial waters of Spain ⓘ territorial waters of the Netherlands ⓘ |
| borderOf | United Kingdom land territory ⓘ |
| contains |
UK coastal shipping routes
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areas of naval exercise ⓘ marine protected areas within 12 nautical miles of the coast ⓘ sea lanes used for international navigation ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| environmentRegulatedBy | UK marine environmental law ⓘ |
| extendsFrom | coastline of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| governedBy |
UK domestic maritime law
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United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ⓘ |
| includesPartOfSea |
Atlantic Ocean approaches
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English Channel ⓘ Irish Sea ⓘ North Sea ⓘ |
| jurisdictionIncludes |
airspace above the territorial sea
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seabed ⓘ subsoil ⓘ water column ⓘ |
| legalRegime | full sovereignty ⓘ |
| partOf |
United Kingdom territorial waters
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
United Kingdom maritime zones
seas surrounding Great Britain ⓘ seas surrounding Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| policedBy |
Maritime and Coastguard Agency
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Royal Navy ⓘ UK Border Force ⓘ |
| securityMonitoredBy |
Royal Navy
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UK maritime surveillance systems ⓘ |
| sovereigntyExercisedBy |
Crown
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UK government ⓘ
surface form:
United Kingdom government
|
| subjectTo | right of innocent passage for foreign vessels ⓘ |
| usedFor |
defence activities
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environmental protection ⓘ fishing ⓘ offshore energy production ⓘ shipping ⓘ |
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: United Kingdom territorial waters Description of subject: United Kingdom territorial waters are the maritime areas extending from the UK’s coastline over which it exercises full sovereignty and jurisdiction, including parts of surrounding seas such as the North Sea, English Channel, Irish Sea, and Atlantic approaches.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
United Kingdom exclusive economic zone
this entity surface form:
United Kingdom exclusive economic zone
United Kingdom territorial waters
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partOf
→
United Kingdom territorial waters
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
United Kingdom maritime zones