Pacific Ocean (indirectly via Willapa Bay)
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The Pacific Ocean is the world's largest and deepest ocean basin, spanning from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south and bordered by Asia, Australia, and the Americas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pacific Ocean (indirectly via Willapa Bay) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4797411 — 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: Pacific Ocean (indirectly via Willapa Bay) Context triple: [South Bend, Washington, locatedOnCoastOf, Pacific Ocean (indirectly via Willapa Bay)]
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A.
Northwestern Pacific Ocean
The Northwestern Pacific Ocean is the northwestern sector of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing the waters off East Asia and surrounding numerous island groups and archipelagos.
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B.
Salish Sea
The Salish Sea is an intricate network of coastal waterways spanning the border between Washington State and British Columbia, renowned for its rich marine biodiversity and deep cultural significance to Indigenous Coast Salish peoples.
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C.
Puget Sound
Puget Sound is a complex system of interconnected marine waterways and basins in northwestern Washington State, known for its deep fjord-like inlets, rich marine ecosystems, and role as a major hub for shipping and coastal communities.
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D.
Strait of Juan de Fuca watershed
The Strait of Juan de Fuca watershed is the drainage area that channels freshwater from surrounding rivers and lakes into the Strait of Juan de Fuca between Washington State and Vancouver Island.
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E.
Georgia Strait
Georgia Strait is a major coastal waterway in British Columbia that separates Vancouver Island from the mainland and forms part of the Salish 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: Pacific Ocean (indirectly via Willapa Bay) Target entity description: The Pacific Ocean is the world's largest and deepest ocean basin, spanning from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south and bordered by Asia, Australia, and the Americas.
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A.
Northwestern Pacific Ocean
The Northwestern Pacific Ocean is the northwestern sector of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing the waters off East Asia and surrounding numerous island groups and archipelagos.
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B.
Salish Sea
The Salish Sea is an intricate network of coastal waterways spanning the border between Washington State and British Columbia, renowned for its rich marine biodiversity and deep cultural significance to Indigenous Coast Salish peoples.
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C.
Puget Sound
Puget Sound is a complex system of interconnected marine waterways and basins in northwestern Washington State, known for its deep fjord-like inlets, rich marine ecosystems, and role as a major hub for shipping and coastal communities.
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D.
Strait of Juan de Fuca watershed
The Strait of Juan de Fuca watershed is the drainage area that channels freshwater from surrounding rivers and lakes into the Strait of Juan de Fuca between Washington State and Vancouver Island.
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E.
Georgia Strait
Georgia Strait is a major coastal waterway in British Columbia that separates Vancouver Island from the mainland and forms part of the Salish Sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (65)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
marine ecosystem
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ocean ⓘ water body ⓘ |
| basinType | ocean basin ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Asia
NERFINISHED
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Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ North America NERFINISHED ⓘ South America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borders |
Arctic Ocean
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Atlantic Ocean ⓘ Indian Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
Bering Sea
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Coral Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ East China Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Fiji Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ Great Barrier Reef NERFINISHED ⓘ Gulf of Alaska NERFINISHED ⓘ Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain NERFINISHED ⓘ Japan Trench NERFINISHED ⓘ Kermadec Trench NERFINISHED ⓘ Kuril–Kamchatka Trench NERFINISHED ⓘ Peru–Chile Trench NERFINISHED ⓘ Philippine Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Ring of Fire NERFINISHED ⓘ Sea of Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ Sea of Okhotsk NERFINISHED ⓘ South China Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Tasman Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Tonga Trench NERFINISHED ⓘ Willapa Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ Yellow Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ major fisheries ⓘ microscopic marine life ⓘ numerous islands ⓘ |
| crossedBy |
Equator
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tropic of Cancer NERFINISHED ⓘ Tropic of Capricorn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deepestPoint | Challenger Deep NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deepestTrench | Mariana Trench NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| extendsFrom | Arctic Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| extendsTo | Southern Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Ring of Fire
NERFINISHED
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deep-sea trenches ⓘ mid-ocean ridges ⓘ volcanic island arcs ⓘ |
| influences |
El Niño–Southern Oscillation
NERFINISHED
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La Niña NERFINISHED ⓘ global climate ⓘ |
| largestOceanBy |
surface area
ⓘ
volume ⓘ |
| locatedOnPlanet | Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorCurrent |
California Current
NERFINISHED
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East Australian Current NERFINISHED ⓘ Equatorial Countercurrent NERFINISHED ⓘ Kuroshio Current NERFINISHED ⓘ North Pacific Current NERFINISHED ⓘ Peru Current NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedBy | Ferdinand Magellan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | peaceful sea ⓘ |
| partOf | World Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| salinityType | saltwater ⓘ |
| usedFor |
fishing
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offshore energy production ⓘ shipping routes ⓘ |
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: Pacific Ocean (indirectly via Willapa Bay) Description of subject: The Pacific Ocean is the world's largest and deepest ocean basin, spanning from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south and bordered by Asia, Australia, and the Americas.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.