New England (fictional island town)
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New England (fictional island town) is the coastal resort community that serves as the primary setting for the shark attacks in the film Jaws 2.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New England (fictional town) | 2 |
| New England (fictional island town) canonical | 1 |
| New England (fictionalized coastal town) | 1 |
| New England (fictionalized) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T995348 — 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: New England (fictional island town) Context triple: [Jaws 2, setIn, New England (fictional island town)]
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A.
Gilead, Maine
Gilead, Maine is a small rural town in western Maine near the New Hampshire border, known for its location along the Androscoggin River and its access to outdoor recreation in the White Mountains region.
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B.
Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts
Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts is a small, affluent coastal town on Cape Ann known for its scenic beaches, historic New England charm, and picturesque harbor.
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C.
Shirley, Massachusetts
Shirley, Massachusetts is a small New England town in north-central Massachusetts known for its historic village center, rural character, and commuter access to the Boston area.
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D.
Old Town, Maine
Old Town, Maine is a small city in Penobscot County known for its historic paper and wood-products industries and its location along the Penobscot River.
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E.
Castle Rock
Castle Rock is a rapidly growing commuter town in central Colorado known for its distinctive castle-shaped butte and family-oriented suburban character between Denver and Colorado Springs.
- 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: New England (fictional island town) Target entity description: New England (fictional island town) is the coastal resort community that serves as the primary setting for the shark attacks in the film Jaws 2.
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A.
Gilead, Maine
Gilead, Maine is a small rural town in western Maine near the New Hampshire border, known for its location along the Androscoggin River and its access to outdoor recreation in the White Mountains region.
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B.
Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts
Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts is a small, affluent coastal town on Cape Ann known for its scenic beaches, historic New England charm, and picturesque harbor.
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C.
Shirley, Massachusetts
Shirley, Massachusetts is a small New England town in north-central Massachusetts known for its historic village center, rural character, and commuter access to the Boston area.
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D.
Old Town, Maine
Old Town, Maine is a small city in Penobscot County known for its historic paper and wood-products industries and its location along the Penobscot River.
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E.
Castle Rock
Castle Rock is a rapidly growing commuter town in central Colorado known for its distinctive castle-shaped butte and family-oriented suburban character between Denver and Colorado Springs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional island
ⓘ
fictional location ⓘ fictional town ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Jaws 2 ⓘ |
| country | United States (fictional setting) ⓘ |
| describedAs | coastal resort community ⓘ |
| genre | thriller film setting ⓘ |
| hasCoastlineOn | Atlantic Ocean (fictional setting) ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
beaches
ⓘ
coastal waters ⓘ marina ⓘ |
| hasType | resort town ⓘ |
| introducedIn |
1978 film Jaws 2
ⓘ
linked to:
Jaws 2
|
| knownFor | shark attacks ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Atlantic Ocean (fictional setting) ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | primary setting of shark attacks in Jaws 2 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Jaws film series fictional universe
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linked to:
Jaws franchise
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| settingFor | Jaws 2 ⓘ |
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: New England (fictional island town) Description of subject: New England (fictional island town) is the coastal resort community that serves as the primary setting for the shark attacks in the film Jaws 2.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: New England (fictional island town)
linked to: New England (fictional island town)
linked to: New England (fictional island town)
linked to: New England (fictional island town)