Durham, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Durham, Massachusetts Bay Colony was a historical settlement located within the colonial jurisdiction of York County in what was then the Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Durham, Massachusetts Bay Colony canonical | 1 |
| Sanford, Massachusetts Bay Colony | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19776277 — 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: Durham, Massachusetts Bay Colony Context triple: [York County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, hasSettlement, Durham, Massachusetts Bay Colony]
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York, Massachusetts Bay Colony
York, Massachusetts Bay Colony was a prominent early English settlement in what is now Maine, serving as an important administrative and coastal community in the region.
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B.
Northampton, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Northampton, Massachusetts Bay Colony was an important 18th-century New England town known as a center of religious life and revivalism in colonial Massachusetts.
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C.
Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony was one of the earliest English settlements in New England, established in 1630 in what is now part of Boston, Massachusetts.
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D.
Salisbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Salisbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony was a 17th-century English settlement in northeastern Massachusetts, known as one of the early coastal towns established in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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E.
Kingston, Plymouth Colony
Kingston, Plymouth Colony was a 17th-century English settlement in what is now southeastern Massachusetts, established as part of the broader Plymouth Colony.
- 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: Durham, Massachusetts Bay Colony Target entity description: Durham, Massachusetts Bay Colony was a historical settlement located within the colonial jurisdiction of York County in what was then the Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England.
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A.
York, Massachusetts Bay Colony
York, Massachusetts Bay Colony was a prominent early English settlement in what is now Maine, serving as an important administrative and coastal community in the region.
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B.
Northampton, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Northampton, Massachusetts Bay Colony was an important 18th-century New England town known as a center of religious life and revivalism in colonial Massachusetts.
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C.
Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony was one of the earliest English settlements in New England, established in 1630 in what is now part of Boston, Massachusetts.
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D.
Salisbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Salisbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony was a 17th-century English settlement in northeastern Massachusetts, known as one of the early coastal towns established in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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E.
Kingston, Plymouth Colony
Kingston, Plymouth Colony was a 17th-century English settlement in what is now southeastern Massachusetts, established as part of the broader Plymouth Colony.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Durham, Massachusetts Bay Colony