Alton, Maine
E113013
Alton, Maine is a small rural town located in Penobscot County in the central part of the U.S. state of Maine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alton, Maine canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T434044 — 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: Alton, Maine Context triple: [Penobscot County, Maine, hasTown, Alton, Maine]
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A.
Howland, Maine
Howland, Maine is a small rural town in Penobscot County known for its location along the Penobscot and Piscataquis Rivers and its outdoor recreation opportunities.
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B.
Lovell, Maine
Lovell, Maine is a small rural town in Oxford County known for its scenic lakes and mountains in western Maine.
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C.
Wilton, Maine
Wilton, Maine is a small New England town known for its scenic lakes, outdoor recreation, and historic mill heritage.
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D.
Newburgh, Maine
Newburgh, Maine is a small rural town in central Maine known for its agricultural character and quiet residential community.
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E.
Hudson, Maine
Hudson, Maine is a small rural town located in Penobscot County in central Maine, known for its quiet, forested landscape and close-knit community.
- 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: Alton, Maine Target entity description: Alton, Maine is a small rural town located in Penobscot County in the central part of the U.S. state of Maine.
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A.
Howland, Maine
Howland, Maine is a small rural town in Penobscot County known for its location along the Penobscot and Piscataquis Rivers and its outdoor recreation opportunities.
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B.
Lovell, Maine
Lovell, Maine is a small rural town in Oxford County known for its scenic lakes and mountains in western Maine.
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C.
Wilton, Maine
Wilton, Maine is a small New England town known for its scenic lakes, outdoor recreation, and historic mill heritage.
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D.
Newburgh, Maine
Newburgh, Maine is a small rural town in central Maine known for its agricultural character and quiet residential community.
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E.
Hudson, Maine
Hudson, Maine is a small rural town located in Penobscot County in central Maine, known for its quiet, forested landscape and close-knit community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryCode | US ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision |
U.S. state of Maine
ⓘ
linked to:
Maine
|
| county | Penobscot County, Maine ⓘ |
| governmentType | New England town ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic | small rural community ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
forested areas
ⓘ
low population density ⓘ |
| hasLandUse | rural ⓘ |
| isInCountySeatOf | Penobscot County, Maine (county seat: Bangor, not Alton) ⓘ |
| isInland | true ⓘ |
| isRural | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Maine
ⓘ
New England ⓘ Penobscot County, Maine ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| partOf |
Maine
ⓘ
Penobscot County, Maine ⓘ |
| postalAddressCountry | US ⓘ |
| region | central Maine ⓘ |
| state | Maine ⓘ |
| stateAbbreviation | ME ⓘ |
| timeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Eastern Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Time Zone
|
| timeZoneStandard |
Eastern Standard Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Time Zone
|
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: Alton, Maine Description of subject: Alton, Maine is a small rural town located in Penobscot County in the central part of the U.S. state of Maine.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.