Cocos Plate
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The Cocos Plate is a young oceanic tectonic plate beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean, whose subduction beneath Central America drives significant volcanic and seismic activity in the region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cocos Plate canonical | 58 |
| Cocos Plate region | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T27396 — 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: Cocos Plate Context triple: [Pacific Ocean, hasTectonicBoundary, Cocos Plate]
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A.
Philippines
The Philippines is a Southeast Asian archipelagic country in the western Pacific Ocean known for its diverse culture, colonial history, and thousands of islands.
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B.
Dutch East Indies
The Dutch East Indies was a vast Dutch colonial territory in Southeast Asia that largely corresponds to present-day Indonesia and played a central role in global spice and trade networks.
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C.
Thailand
Thailand is a Southeast Asian nation known for its rich Buddhist culture, constitutional monarchy, and role as a regional hub for tourism and trade.
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D.
Indonesia
Indonesia is a large Southeast Asian nation made up of thousands of islands, known for its diverse cultures, significant natural resources, and status as one of the world’s largest emerging economies.
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E.
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is a geographically and culturally diverse region of Asia comprising countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Malaysia, situated between the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
- 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: Cocos Plate Target entity description: The Cocos Plate is a young oceanic tectonic plate beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean, whose subduction beneath Central America drives significant volcanic and seismic activity in the region.
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A.
Philippines
The Philippines is a Southeast Asian archipelagic country in the western Pacific Ocean known for its diverse culture, colonial history, and thousands of islands.
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B.
Dutch East Indies
The Dutch East Indies was a vast Dutch colonial territory in Southeast Asia that largely corresponds to present-day Indonesia and played a central role in global spice and trade networks.
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C.
Thailand
Thailand is a Southeast Asian nation known for its rich Buddhist culture, constitutional monarchy, and role as a regional hub for tourism and trade.
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D.
Indonesia
Indonesia is a large Southeast Asian nation made up of thousands of islands, known for its diverse cultures, significant natural resources, and status as one of the world’s largest emerging economies.
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E.
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is a geographically and culturally diverse region of Asia comprising countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Malaysia, situated between the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
oceanic plate
ⓘ
tectonic plate ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Central American Volcanic Arc
ⓘ
surface form:
Central America Volcanic Arc
Middle America Trench earthquakes ⓘ subduction-related volcanism ⓘ |
| borders |
Caribbean Plate
ⓘ
Nazca Plate ⓘ North American Plate ⓘ Pacific Plate ⓘ Rivera Plate ⓘ |
| causes |
megathrust earthquakes in Central America
ⓘ
tsunamis in Central America region ⓘ |
| createdAt |
Cocos–Nazca spreading center
ⓘ
East Pacific Rise ⓘ |
| drives |
Central American seismic activity
ⓘ
Central American volcanic activity ⓘ |
| geologicalSetting | subduction zone margin of Central America ⓘ |
| hasAge | geologically young ⓘ |
| hasComposition | oceanic crust ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Cocos Ridge
ⓘ
Guatemala Basin ⓘ Tehuantepec Ridge ⓘ |
| influences |
hazard risk in Central America
ⓘ
volcanic arc geometry in Central America ⓘ |
| locatedIn | eastern Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| locatedOffCoastOf |
Costa Rica
ⓘ
El Salvador ⓘ Guatemala ⓘ Mexico ⓘ Nicaragua ⓘ Panama ⓘ |
| motionType |
convergent boundary with Caribbean Plate
ⓘ
convergent boundary with North American Plate ⓘ divergent boundary with Nazca Plate ⓘ divergent boundary with Pacific Plate ⓘ transform boundary with Rivera Plate ⓘ |
| movesRelativeTo |
Caribbean Plate
ⓘ
North American Plate ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Cocos Island ⓘ |
| overriddenBy |
Caribbean Plate
ⓘ
surface form:
Caribbean Plate at Central America
North American Plate ⓘ
surface form:
North American Plate at Mexico
|
| partOf | Earth lithosphere ⓘ |
| subductionZone | Middle America Trench ⓘ |
| subductsBeneath |
Caribbean Plate
ⓘ
Central America ⓘ North American Plate ⓘ |
| typeOfSubduction | oceanic-continental subduction ⓘ |
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: Cocos Plate Description of subject: The Cocos Plate is a young oceanic tectonic plate beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean, whose subduction beneath Central America drives significant volcanic and seismic activity in the region.
Referenced by (59)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.