ME
E158750
ME is the official two-letter United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Maine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ME canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1377413 — 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: ME Context triple: [Maine, postalAbbreviation, ME]
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A.
ME
ME is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Montenegro.
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B.
Mc
Mc is a Gaelic patronymic prefix meaning "son of," commonly found in Scottish and Irish surnames.
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C.
Mem
Mem is the thirteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, representing the "m" sound and having both standard and final written forms.
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D.
ER
ER is the commonly used abbreviation for United Russia, the dominant ruling political party in the Russian Federation.
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E.
ER
ER is a critically acclaimed American medical drama television series that follows the personal and professional lives of staff in a busy Chicago emergency room.
- 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: ME Target entity description: ME is the official two-letter United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Maine.
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A.
ME
ME is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Montenegro.
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B.
Mc
Mc is a Gaelic patronymic prefix meaning "son of," commonly found in Scottish and Irish surnames.
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C.
Mem
Mem is the thirteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, representing the "m" sound and having both standard and final written forms.
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D.
ER
ER is the commonly used abbreviation for United Russia, the dominant ruling political party in the Russian Federation.
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E.
ER
ER is a critically acclaimed American medical drama television series that follows the personal and professional lives of staff in a busy Chicago emergency room.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Postal Service state abbreviation
ⓘ
postal abbreviation ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Maine
ⓘ
U.S. state ⓘ |
| character1 | M ⓘ |
| character2 | E ⓘ |
| codeType | two-letter code ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| distinctFrom |
ISO 3166-2:US-ME
ⓘ
linked to:
Maine
word "me" as English pronoun ⓘ |
| hasLength | 2 ⓘ |
| isCaseSensitive | yes ⓘ |
| isOfficial | true ⓘ |
| partOfSystem | USPS state and territory abbreviations ⓘ |
| regionName | Maine ⓘ |
| regionType | state ⓘ |
| represents | Maine ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | United States Postal Service ⓘ |
| typicalCase | uppercase ⓘ |
| usedBy | United States Postal Service ⓘ |
| usedFor |
ZIP Code addressing
ⓘ
mail addressing ⓘ postal sorting ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: ME Description of subject: ME is the official two-letter United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Maine.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.