Sawusea
E682444
Sawusea, also known as the Savu Sea, is a small sea in the western Pacific Ocean located between the islands of Indonesia, including Timor, Sumba, and Flores.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sawusea canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7708318 — 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: Sawusea Context triple: [Timor, seaBorder, Sawusea]
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A.
Ulawa
Ulawa is a small island in the Solomon Islands’ Makira-Ulawa Province, known for its rural villages, subsistence lifestyle, and surrounding coral reefs.
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B.
Okanisi
Okanisi is another name for the Ndyuka Maroons, a community of African-descended people in Suriname and French Guiana known for their distinct language and culture formed through resistance to slavery.
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C.
Eulau
Eulau is a German-language surname associated with individuals such as political scientist Heinz Eulau.
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D.
Nawuli
Nawuli is an alternative name for the Nawuri language, a Guang language spoken primarily in parts of Ghana.
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E.
Arawa
Arawa is a town on the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea that served as the former provincial capital and a key service and administrative center for the surrounding mining region.
- 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: Sawusea Target entity description: Sawusea, also known as the Savu Sea, is a small sea in the western Pacific Ocean located between the islands of Indonesia, including Timor, Sumba, and Flores.
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A.
Ulawa
Ulawa is a small island in the Solomon Islands’ Makira-Ulawa Province, known for its rural villages, subsistence lifestyle, and surrounding coral reefs.
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B.
Okanisi
Okanisi is another name for the Ndyuka Maroons, a community of African-descended people in Suriname and French Guiana known for their distinct language and culture formed through resistance to slavery.
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C.
Eulau
Eulau is a German-language surname associated with individuals such as political scientist Heinz Eulau.
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D.
Nawuli
Nawuli is an alternative name for the Nawuri language, a Guang language spoken primarily in parts of Ghana.
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E.
Arawa
Arawa is a town on the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea that served as the former provincial capital and a key service and administrative center for the surrounding mining region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | sea ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Laut Sawu
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Savu Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| area | approximately 350000 km² ⓘ |
| averageDepth | around 2500 m ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Indonesia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Banda Sea
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Flores Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Indian Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ Timor Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| boundedBy |
Flores
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rote Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Savu Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Sumba NERFINISHED ⓘ Timor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | tropical ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Banda Sea
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Flores Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Indian Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| hasIsland |
Rote Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Savu Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Semau Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
high marine biodiversity
ⓘ
whale migration routes ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
Southeast Asia ⓘ western Pacific Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
East Nusa Tenggara
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
East Timor maritime zone NERFINISHED ⓘ West Nusa Tenggara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Flores Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lesser Sunda Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ Sumba Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Timor Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Australian Plate margin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marineEcoregion | Lesser Sunda Ecoregion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maximumDepth | 3474 m ⓘ |
| oceanographicFeature |
deep basin
ⓘ
steep island slopes ⓘ |
| partOf |
Indonesian archipelagic waters
ⓘ
Maritime Southeast Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| sovereignWatersOf | Indonesia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| waterType | salt water ⓘ |
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: Sawusea Description of subject: Sawusea, also known as the Savu Sea, is a small sea in the western Pacific Ocean located between the islands of Indonesia, including Timor, Sumba, and Flores.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.