Jintotolo Channel
E281416
Jintotolo Channel is a strait in the central Philippines that separates the islands of Masbate and Panay and forms part of an important shipping route between the Sibuyan Sea and the Visayan Sea.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jintotolo Channel canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2566608 — 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: Jintotolo Channel Context triple: [Capiz, locatedOnBodyOfWater, Jintotolo Channel]
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A.
Babuyan Channel
Babuyan Channel is a body of water in the northern Philippines that separates Luzon Island from the Babuyan Islands and forms part of the larger Luzon Strait between the Philippines and Taiwan.
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B.
Sumba Strait
Sumba Strait is a body of water in eastern Indonesia that separates Sumba Island from neighboring islands and connects parts of the Indian Ocean with the surrounding seas.
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C.
Friza Strait
Friza Strait is a sea passage located among Russia’s Kuril Islands in the northwest Pacific Ocean.
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D.
Tokara Strait
Tokara Strait is a body of water in southern Japan that separates the Tokara Islands from the Amami Islands, forming part of the boundary between the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
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E.
Bashi Channel
The Bashi Channel is a strategically important waterway between Taiwan and the northern Philippines that connects the South China Sea with the Philippine Sea and the broader Pacific Ocean.
- 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: Jintotolo Channel Target entity description: Jintotolo Channel is a strait in the central Philippines that separates the islands of Masbate and Panay and forms part of an important shipping route between the Sibuyan Sea and the Visayan Sea.
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A.
Babuyan Channel
Babuyan Channel is a body of water in the northern Philippines that separates Luzon Island from the Babuyan Islands and forms part of the larger Luzon Strait between the Philippines and Taiwan.
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B.
Sumba Strait
Sumba Strait is a body of water in eastern Indonesia that separates Sumba Island from neighboring islands and connects parts of the Indian Ocean with the surrounding seas.
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C.
Friza Strait
Friza Strait is a sea passage located among Russia’s Kuril Islands in the northwest Pacific Ocean.
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D.
Tokara Strait
Tokara Strait is a body of water in southern Japan that separates the Tokara Islands from the Amami Islands, forming part of the boundary between the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
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E.
Bashi Channel
The Bashi Channel is a strategically important waterway between Taiwan and the northern Philippines that connects the South China Sea with the Philippine Sea and the broader Pacific Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | strait ⓘ |
| bodyOfWaterType | marine strait ⓘ |
| connects |
Sibuyan Sea
ⓘ
Visayan Sea ⓘ |
| country | Philippines ⓘ |
| hasStrategicImportance | important shipping lane in the central Philippines ⓘ |
| locatedIn | central Philippines ⓘ |
| locatedInBodyOfWater |
Sibuyan Sea region
ⓘ
Visayan Sea region ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Bicol Region ⓘ |
| locatedNearIsland |
Masbate Island
ⓘ
Panay Island ⓘ |
| partOf |
Philippine archipelagic waters
ⓘ
shipping route between the Sibuyan Sea and the Visayan Sea ⓘ |
| separates |
Masbate
ⓘ
Panay ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial shipping
ⓘ
inter-island navigation ⓘ |
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: Jintotolo Channel Description of subject: Jintotolo Channel is a strait in the central Philippines that separates the islands of Masbate and Panay and forms part of an important shipping route between the Sibuyan Sea and the Visayan Sea.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.