宗谷海峡
E619995
宗谷海峡 is the strait between Japan’s Hokkaidō and Russia’s Sakhalin Island, forming part of the boundary between the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk and serving as an important international shipping route.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 宗谷海峡 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6793740 — 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: 宗谷海峡 Context triple: [Sōya Strait, hasJapaneseName, 宗谷海峡]
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A.
Tsugaru Strait
The Tsugaru Strait is a narrow body of water separating Japan’s Honshu and Hokkaido islands, serving as a key maritime passage between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean.
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B.
Kanmon Straits
Kanmon Straits is a narrow sea passage in southwestern Japan that separates the islands of Honshu and Kyushu and serves as an important shipping and transportation route.
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C.
Akashi Strait
The Akashi Strait is a narrow waterway in Japan separating Awaji Island from the mainland of Honshu and is spanned by the famous Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, one of the world’s longest suspension bridges.
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D.
Uraga Channel
Uraga Channel is the strait at the mouth of Tokyo Bay that serves as a key maritime gateway between the bay and the open Pacific Ocean.
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E.
Bungo Channel
The Bungo Channel is a strait in southwestern Japan separating Kyushu and Shikoku and linking the Pacific Ocean with Japan’s inland seas.
- 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: 宗谷海峡 Target entity description: 宗谷海峡 is the strait between Japan’s Hokkaidō and Russia’s Sakhalin Island, forming part of the boundary between the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk and serving as an important international shipping route.
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A.
Tsugaru Strait
The Tsugaru Strait is a narrow body of water separating Japan’s Honshu and Hokkaido islands, serving as a key maritime passage between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean.
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B.
Kanmon Straits
Kanmon Straits is a narrow sea passage in southwestern Japan that separates the islands of Honshu and Kyushu and serves as an important shipping and transportation route.
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C.
Akashi Strait
The Akashi Strait is a narrow waterway in Japan separating Awaji Island from the mainland of Honshu and is spanned by the famous Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, one of the world’s longest suspension bridges.
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D.
Uraga Channel
Uraga Channel is the strait at the mouth of Tokyo Bay that serves as a key maritime gateway between the bay and the open Pacific Ocean.
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E.
Bungo Channel
The Bungo Channel is a strait in southwestern Japan separating Kyushu and Shikoku and linking the Pacific Ocean with Japan’s inland seas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
国際航路
ⓘ
海域 ⓘ 海峡 ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
コルサコフ周辺海域
ⓘ
宗谷岬 ⓘ 稚内市 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsTo | 環日本海地域の海上交通ネットワーク ⓘ |
| belongsToExclusiveEconomicZone |
ロシアの排他的経済水域の一部
ⓘ
日本の排他的経済水域の一部 ⓘ |
| climate | 寒冷海域 ⓘ |
| connectsBodyOfWater |
オホーツク海
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
日本海 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
ロシア
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
日本 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formsBorderBetween |
ロシア
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
日本 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geopoliticalRole | 日本とロシアの安全保障上の要衝 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | La Pérouse Strait NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEnglishName | Soya Strait NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasJapaneseName | 宗谷海峡 ⓘ |
| hasStrategicImportance |
エネルギー輸送ルート
ⓘ
国際海運 ⓘ |
| iceConditions | 冬季に流氷が発生する海域 ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
ロシアの周辺海域
ⓘ
日本とロシアの国境水域 ⓘ 日本の周辺海域 ⓘ |
| locatedBetween |
サハリン南端
ⓘ
北海道北端 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
サハリン島
ⓘ
北海道 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
北太平洋地域
ⓘ
東アジア ⓘ |
| locatedInWaterbody |
オホーツク海
ⓘ
日本海 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | ジャン＝フランソワ・ド・ラ・ペルーズ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyIsland |
利尻島
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
礼文島 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
オホーツク海
ⓘ
日本海 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfMaritimeRoute | 日本海と北太平洋を結ぶ航路 ⓘ |
| separates |
サハリン島
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
北海道 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shippingLaneRole | アジアと北米・ヨーロッパを結ぶ航路の一部 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
商船航路
ⓘ
国際海上輸送 ⓘ 漁業活動 ⓘ |
| waterwayType | 国際海峡 ⓘ |
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: 宗谷海峡 Description of subject: 宗谷海峡 is the strait between Japan’s Hokkaidō and Russia’s Sakhalin Island, forming part of the boundary between the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk and serving as an important international shipping route.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.