law of the sea
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The law of the sea is the body of international rules and principles that governs states’ rights and responsibilities in the world’s oceans, including navigation, resource exploitation, environmental protection, and maritime boundaries.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| law of the sea canonical | 3 |
| Law of the Sea | 1 |
| law of the sea tribunal | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3830025 — 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: law of the sea Context triple: [Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, legalDomain, law of the sea]
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law of the sea movement
The law of the sea movement is an international legal and political effort aimed at establishing comprehensive rules governing the use, conservation, and shared management of the world’s oceans and their resources.
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The Ocean Regime
The Ocean Regime is a seminal work by Elisabeth Mann Borgese that explores the legal, political, and environmental governance of the world’s oceans as a shared global resource.
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United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea is an international treaty that defines nations’ rights and responsibilities in the world’s oceans, including maritime boundaries, resource exploitation, navigation, and environmental protection.
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Meetings of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
The Meetings of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea are formal gatherings of countries that have ratified the Convention, convened to review its implementation, address legal and institutional issues, and make decisions on matters such as the election of judges to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.
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United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea
The United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea was a series of international meetings that produced the comprehensive legal framework governing the rights and responsibilities of nations in their use of the world’s oceans, culminating in the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
- 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: law of the sea Target entity description: The law of the sea is the body of international rules and principles that governs states’ rights and responsibilities in the world’s oceans, including navigation, resource exploitation, environmental protection, and maritime boundaries.
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A.
law of the sea movement
The law of the sea movement is an international legal and political effort aimed at establishing comprehensive rules governing the use, conservation, and shared management of the world’s oceans and their resources.
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B.
The Ocean Regime
The Ocean Regime is a seminal work by Elisabeth Mann Borgese that explores the legal, political, and environmental governance of the world’s oceans as a shared global resource.
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C.
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea is an international treaty that defines nations’ rights and responsibilities in the world’s oceans, including maritime boundaries, resource exploitation, navigation, and environmental protection.
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D.
Meetings of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
The Meetings of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea are formal gatherings of countries that have ratified the Convention, convened to review its implementation, address legal and institutional issues, and make decisions on matters such as the election of judges to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.
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E.
United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea
The United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea was a series of international meetings that produced the comprehensive legal framework governing the rights and responsibilities of nations in their use of the world’s oceans, culminating in the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
body of international law
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public international law ⓘ |
| abbreviation | UNCLOS framework ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
balance coastal state rights and freedoms of navigation
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promote orderly use of the oceans ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
airspace above maritime zones
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all oceans ⓘ seas ⓘ submarine areas ⓘ |
| basedOn | customary international law ⓘ |
| codifiedIn | United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ⓘ |
| definesConcept |
contiguous zone
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continental shelf ⓘ exclusive economic zone ⓘ high seas ⓘ international seabed area ⓘ territorial sea ⓘ |
| developedBy |
international courts and tribunals
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international organizations ⓘ states ⓘ |
| fieldOfLaw | maritime law ⓘ |
| governs |
states’ responsibilities in the oceans
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states’ rights in the oceans ⓘ |
| includesPrinciple |
common heritage of mankind for the deep seabed
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equitable utilization of marine resources ⓘ freedom of navigation ⓘ freedom of overflight ⓘ peaceful uses of the seas ⓘ protection and preservation of the marine environment ⓘ |
| providesFor |
dispute settlement mechanisms
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maritime boundary agreements ⓘ rights of landlocked states of access to the sea ⓘ |
| regulates |
archipelagic sea lanes passage
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fishing rights ⓘ innocent passage of ships ⓘ marine environmental protection ⓘ marine pollution control ⓘ maritime boundary delimitation ⓘ navigation in exclusive economic zones ⓘ navigation in territorial seas ⓘ navigation on the high seas ⓘ offshore oil and gas exploitation ⓘ seabed mining ⓘ transit passage through straits ⓘ use of marine natural resources ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
international maritime security
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suppression of illicit trafficking by sea ⓘ suppression of piracy ⓘ |
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: law of the sea Description of subject: The law of the sea is the body of international rules and principles that governs states’ rights and responsibilities in the world’s oceans, including navigation, resource exploitation, environmental protection, and maritime boundaries.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
law of the sea tribunal
this entity surface form:
Law of the Sea