Turkish contiguous zone
E793356
The Turkish contiguous zone is a maritime area adjacent to Turkey’s territorial waters where the state exercises limited control to prevent and punish infringements of its customs, fiscal, immigration, and sanitary laws.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Turkish contiguous zone canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9354344 — 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: Turkish contiguous zone Context triple: [Turkish Coast Guard, hasJurisdictionOver, Turkish contiguous zone]
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A.
Turkish coast
The Turkish coast is the long, diverse shoreline of Turkey along the Aegean, Mediterranean, Black, and Marmara Seas, known for its beaches, historic sites, and popular resort towns.
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B.
Güneysınır
Güneysınır is a rural district and municipality in central Turkey known for its agricultural landscape within Konya Province.
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C.
Syrian exclusive economic zone
The Syrian exclusive economic zone is a maritime area in the Eastern Mediterranean where Syria holds special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources under international law.
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D.
Körfez
Körfez is a coastal industrial city and district in Turkey’s Kocaeli Province, located along the Gulf of İzmit in the Marmara region.
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E.
Cypriot maritime area
The Cypriot maritime area comprises the territorial waters and exclusive economic zone surrounding Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean, known for its strategic location and offshore energy resources.
- 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: Turkish contiguous zone Target entity description: The Turkish contiguous zone is a maritime area adjacent to Turkey’s territorial waters where the state exercises limited control to prevent and punish infringements of its customs, fiscal, immigration, and sanitary laws.
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A.
Turkish coast
The Turkish coast is the long, diverse shoreline of Turkey along the Aegean, Mediterranean, Black, and Marmara Seas, known for its beaches, historic sites, and popular resort towns.
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B.
Güneysınır
Güneysınır is a rural district and municipality in central Turkey known for its agricultural landscape within Konya Province.
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C.
Syrian exclusive economic zone
The Syrian exclusive economic zone is a maritime area in the Eastern Mediterranean where Syria holds special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources under international law.
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D.
Körfez
Körfez is a coastal industrial city and district in Turkey’s Kocaeli Province, located along the Gulf of İzmit in the Marmara region.
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E.
Cypriot maritime area
The Cypriot maritime area comprises the territorial waters and exclusive economic zone surrounding Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean, known for its strategic location and offshore energy resources.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | contiguous zone ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Turkish territorial sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| beyond | Turkish territorial sea ⓘ |
| coastalStateRights |
control to prevent infringement of specified laws
ⓘ
control to punish infringement of specified laws ⓘ |
| country | Turkey ⓘ |
| distinctFrom |
Turkish exclusive economic zone
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Turkish territorial sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedBy | Turkish maritime law ⓘ |
| legalBasis | United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Aegean Sea
ⓘ
Black Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Mediterranean Sea ⓘ |
| maximumExtentFromBaseline | 24 nautical miles ⓘ |
| measuredFrom | baselines of Turkey ⓘ |
| purpose |
prevention of infringement of customs laws
ⓘ
prevention of infringement of fiscal laws ⓘ prevention of infringement of immigration laws ⓘ prevention of infringement of sanitary laws ⓘ punishment of infringement of customs laws ⓘ punishment of infringement of fiscal laws ⓘ punishment of infringement of immigration laws ⓘ punishment of infringement of sanitary laws ⓘ |
| relatedConcept | contiguous zone under UNCLOS Article 33 ⓘ |
| sovereigntyType | limited control ⓘ |
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: Turkish contiguous zone Description of subject: The Turkish contiguous zone is a maritime area adjacent to Turkey’s territorial waters where the state exercises limited control to prevent and punish infringements of its customs, fiscal, immigration, and sanitary laws.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.