Suez Canal Authority
E51533
The Suez Canal Authority is the Egyptian state-owned agency responsible for managing, operating, and maintaining the Suez Canal and its associated revenues and infrastructure.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Suez Canal Authority canonical | 13 |
| Suez Canal Authority group of companies | 2 |
| Suez Canal Authority fleet | 1 |
| هيئة قناة السويس | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T394147 — 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: Suez Canal Authority Context triple: [Suez Canal, operator, Suez Canal Authority]
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A.
Ministry of Transport of Egypt
The Ministry of Transport of Egypt is the government body responsible for planning, regulating, and overseeing Egypt’s national transportation systems, including railways, roads, and maritime infrastructure.
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B.
Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources of Egypt
The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources of Egypt is the national governmental body responsible for managing and regulating the country’s oil, gas, and mineral resources sectors.
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C.
Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation
The Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation is Egypt’s state-owned oil and gas company responsible for managing the country’s hydrocarbon resources, exploration, production, and related downstream activities.
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D.
Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company
The Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company is Egypt’s state-owned enterprise responsible for managing, developing, and overseeing the country’s natural gas resources and industry.
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E.
Ganoub El Wadi Petroleum Holding Company
Ganoub El Wadi Petroleum Holding Company is an Egyptian state-owned oil and gas company responsible for exploration, production, and development activities primarily in the southern regions of Egypt.
- 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: Suez Canal Authority Target entity description: The Suez Canal Authority is the Egyptian state-owned agency responsible for managing, operating, and maintaining the Suez Canal and its associated revenues and infrastructure.
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A.
Ministry of Transport of Egypt
The Ministry of Transport of Egypt is the government body responsible for planning, regulating, and overseeing Egypt’s national transportation systems, including railways, roads, and maritime infrastructure.
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B.
Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources of Egypt
The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources of Egypt is the national governmental body responsible for managing and regulating the country’s oil, gas, and mineral resources sectors.
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C.
Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation
The Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation is Egypt’s state-owned oil and gas company responsible for managing the country’s hydrocarbon resources, exploration, production, and related downstream activities.
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D.
Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company
The Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company is Egypt’s state-owned enterprise responsible for managing, developing, and overseeing the country’s natural gas resources and industry.
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E.
Ganoub El Wadi Petroleum Holding Company
Ganoub El Wadi Petroleum Holding Company is an Egyptian state-owned oil and gas company responsible for exploration, production, and development activities primarily in the southern regions of Egypt.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
ⓘ
state-owned enterprise ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | Egypt ⓘ |
| country | Egypt ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
canal management
ⓘ
dredging ⓘ maritime navigation services ⓘ ship repair ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Egyptian government
ⓘ
surface form:
Government of Egypt
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| hasPart |
Suez Canal Authority dredging units
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Suez Canal Authority self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Suez Canal Authority fleet
Port Said Shipyard ⓘ
surface form:
Suez Canal Authority shipyards
|
| headquartersLocation |
Ismailia
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Port Said ⓘ Suez ⓘ |
| industry |
maritime transport
ⓘ
port and waterway management ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Egypt
ⓘ
surface form:
Arab Republic of Egypt
Suez Canal Zone ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Arabic ⓘ |
| legalForm | state authority ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern European Time ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterway | Suez Canal ⓘ |
| mainRevenueSource | Suez Canal transit fees ⓘ |
| maintains | Suez Canal ⓘ |
| manages | Suez Canal ⓘ |
| officialName |
Hay’at Qanāt as-Suways
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Suez Canal Authority self-link ⓘ |
| operates | Suez Canal ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Egyptian government
ⓘ
surface form:
Government of Egypt
|
| parentOrganization |
Egyptian government
ⓘ
surface form:
Government of Egypt
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| precededBy |
Suez Canal Company
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surface form:
Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez
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| responsibleFor |
collection of Suez Canal tolls
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development of Suez Canal infrastructure ⓘ maintenance of the Suez Canal ⓘ management of Suez Canal traffic ⓘ operation of the Suez Canal ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
Suez Canal
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surface form:
New Suez Canal project
Suez Canal expansion projects ⓘ nationalization of the Suez Canal ⓘ |
| subsidiary |
Canal Harbour & Great Projects Company
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Canal Mooring & Lights Company ⓘ Port Said Shipyard ⓘ Port Said Shipyard ⓘ
surface form:
Suez Shipyard Company
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| supervises |
Suez Canal pilots
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Suez Canal traffic control ⓘ |
| website | https://www.suezcanal.gov.eg ⓘ |
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: Suez Canal Authority Description of subject: The Suez Canal Authority is the Egyptian state-owned agency responsible for managing, operating, and maintaining the Suez Canal and its associated revenues and infrastructure.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Suez Canal Authority fleet
this entity surface form:
هيئة قناة السويس
this entity surface form:
Suez Canal Authority group of companies
this entity surface form:
Suez Canal Authority group of companies