Bahamas Exclusive Economic Zone
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The Bahamas Exclusive Economic Zone is a vast maritime area over which the Bahamas holds special rights for exploring, exploiting, conserving, and managing natural resources, including regions like the Cay Sal Bank.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bahamas Exclusive Economic Zone canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7762956 — 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: Bahamas Exclusive Economic Zone Context triple: [Cay Sal Bank, partOf, Bahamas Exclusive Economic Zone]
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U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone
The U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone is a vast maritime area extending from the U.S. coastline in which the United States has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.
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B.
Bahamas
The Bahamas is an island country in the Atlantic Ocean, known for its tropical climate, coral-based archipelago, and status as a popular tourist and offshore financial center.
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C.
Bahamas
Bahamas is the stage name of Canadian musician Afie Jurvanen, known for his mellow, folk-influenced indie rock and introspective songwriting.
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D.
Open Bay Islands
The Open Bay Islands are a small, remote island group off the west coast of New Zealand’s South Island, noted for their rugged coastline and important breeding colonies of seabirds and marine mammals.
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E.
northern Bahamas
The northern Bahamas is a region of the Bahamian archipelago comprising its uppermost islands and cays, known for clear turquoise waters, extensive coral reefs, and popular boating and fishing destinations.
- 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: Bahamas Exclusive Economic Zone Target entity description: The Bahamas Exclusive Economic Zone is a vast maritime area over which the Bahamas holds special rights for exploring, exploiting, conserving, and managing natural resources, including regions like the Cay Sal Bank.
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A.
U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone
The U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone is a vast maritime area extending from the U.S. coastline in which the United States has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.
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B.
Bahamas
The Bahamas is an island country in the Atlantic Ocean, known for its tropical climate, coral-based archipelago, and status as a popular tourist and offshore financial center.
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C.
Bahamas
Bahamas is the stage name of Canadian musician Afie Jurvanen, known for his mellow, folk-influenced indie rock and introspective songwriting.
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D.
Open Bay Islands
The Open Bay Islands are a small, remote island group off the west coast of New Zealand’s South Island, noted for their rugged coastline and important breeding colonies of seabirds and marine mammals.
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E.
northern Bahamas
The northern Bahamas is a region of the Bahamian archipelago comprising its uppermost islands and cays, known for clear turquoise waters, extensive coral reefs, and popular boating and fishing destinations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
exclusive economic zone
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maritime zone ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
high seas
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territorial sea of The Bahamas ⓘ |
| allows |
freedom of navigation for other states
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freedom of overflight for other states ⓘ |
| coastalStateRights |
jurisdiction over artificial islands and installations
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jurisdiction over marine scientific research ⓘ jurisdiction over protection and preservation of the marine environment ⓘ sovereign rights for economic exploitation ⓘ |
| contains |
coral reef ecosystems
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fishing grounds important to Bahamian economy ⓘ marine protected areas (designated within EEZ) ⓘ |
| country | The Bahamas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| environmentalConcerns |
climate change impacts on marine ecosystems
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coral reef degradation risk ⓘ overfishing risk ⓘ |
| givesRightsTo |
conserve natural resources
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exploit natural resources ⓘ explore natural resources ⓘ manage natural resources ⓘ |
| hasLegalBasis | United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includesArea |
Bahama Banks
NERFINISHED
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Cay Sal Bank NERFINISHED ⓘ Great Bahama Bank NERFINISHED ⓘ Little Bahama Bank NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalRegime | UNCLOS Part V NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
Caribbean Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maximumExtentFromBaseline | 200 nautical miles ⓘ |
| naturalResources |
fisheries
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marine biodiversity ⓘ offshore hydrocarbons (potential) ⓘ seabed minerals (potential) ⓘ |
| partOf | maritime zones of The Bahamas ⓘ |
| purpose |
conservation of marine ecosystems
ⓘ
economic development through marine sectors ⓘ sustainable use of marine resources ⓘ |
| regulatingAuthority |
Bahamas Department of Marine Resources
NERFINISHED
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Bahamas Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources NERFINISHED ⓘ Government of the Bahamas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sovereignState | The Bahamas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Bahamas Exclusive Economic Zone Description of subject: The Bahamas Exclusive Economic Zone is a vast maritime area over which the Bahamas holds special rights for exploring, exploiting, conserving, and managing natural resources, including regions like the Cay Sal Bank.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.