Ambon Island
E241023
Ambon Island is a historically significant and densely populated island in Indonesia’s Maluku province, known for its role in the spice trade and its strategic port city of Ambon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ambon Island canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1476799 — 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: Ambon Island Context triple: [Maluku Islands, contains, Ambon Island]
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A.
Halmahera
Halmahera is the largest island in Indonesia’s Maluku archipelago, known for its rugged terrain, rich biodiversity, and strategic location between the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
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B.
Maluku Islands
The Maluku Islands are an Indonesian archipelago historically known as the Spice Islands, famed for their production of nutmeg, cloves, and other valuable spices that drew intense European colonial interest.
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C.
Flores
Flores is a large island in eastern Indonesia known for its volcanic landscapes, traditional villages, and proximity to Komodo National Park with its famous Komodo dragons.
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D.
Madura Island
Madura Island is an Indonesian island off the northeastern coast of Java, known for its distinct Madurese culture, traditional bull races (karapan sapi), and salt production.
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E.
Tidore
Tidore is an island and historic sultanate in eastern Indonesia that was once a major center of the regional spice trade.
- 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: Ambon Island Target entity description: Ambon Island is a historically significant and densely populated island in Indonesia’s Maluku province, known for its role in the spice trade and its strategic port city of Ambon.
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A.
Halmahera
Halmahera is the largest island in Indonesia’s Maluku archipelago, known for its rugged terrain, rich biodiversity, and strategic location between the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
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B.
Maluku Islands
The Maluku Islands are an Indonesian archipelago historically known as the Spice Islands, famed for their production of nutmeg, cloves, and other valuable spices that drew intense European colonial interest.
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C.
Flores
Flores is a large island in eastern Indonesia known for its volcanic landscapes, traditional villages, and proximity to Komodo National Park with its famous Komodo dragons.
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D.
Madura Island
Madura Island is an Indonesian island off the northeastern coast of Java, known for its distinct Madurese culture, traditional bull races (karapan sapi), and salt production.
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E.
Tidore
Tidore is an island and historic sultanate in eastern Indonesia that was once a major center of the regional spice trade.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Ambon Island Description of subject: Ambon Island is a historically significant and densely populated island in Indonesia’s Maluku province, known for its role in the spice trade and its strategic port city of Ambon.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Eastern Indonesia