Maine, Minnesota, United States
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Maine is a small unincorporated community in Minnesota, United States, known primarily as the birthplace of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maine, Minnesota, United States canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1539168 — 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: Maine, Minnesota, United States Context triple: [William O. Douglas, birthPlace, Maine, Minnesota, United States]
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A.
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state known for its numerous lakes, cold winters, and vibrant cultural and economic centers like Minneapolis–Saint Paul.
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B.
Maine
Maine is a northeastern U.S. state known for its rugged coastline, maritime history, and vast forested interior.
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C.
Maine
Maine is a historical region in northwestern France that played a significant role in the medieval power struggles between the English and French crowns.
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D.
Mexico, Maine
Mexico, Maine is a small town in Oxford County known historically as a mill and residential community closely linked with the neighboring industrial town of Rumford.
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E.
Strong, Maine
Strong, Maine is a small rural town in western Maine known historically for its lumber and toothpick manufacturing industries.
- 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: Maine, Minnesota, United States Target entity description: Maine is a small unincorporated community in Minnesota, United States, known primarily as the birthplace of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas.
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A.
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state known for its numerous lakes, cold winters, and vibrant cultural and economic centers like Minneapolis–Saint Paul.
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B.
Maine
Maine is a northeastern U.S. state known for its rugged coastline, maritime history, and vast forested interior.
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C.
Maine
Maine is a historical region in northwestern France that played a significant role in the medieval power struggles between the English and French crowns.
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D.
Mexico, Maine
Mexico, Maine is a small town in Oxford County known historically as a mill and residential community closely linked with the neighboring industrial town of Rumford.
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E.
Strong, Maine
Strong, Maine is a small rural town in western Maine known historically for its lumber and toothpick manufacturing industries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
unincorporated community ⓘ |
| birthplace | Maine, Minnesota, United States ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasNotablePerson | William O. Douglas ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Minnesota ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Otter Tail County, Minnesota ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Maine ⓘ |
| occupation | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| partOf |
United States Midwest
ⓘ
linked to:
Midwestern United States
|
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: Maine, Minnesota, United States Description of subject: Maine is a small unincorporated community in Minnesota, United States, known primarily as the birthplace of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Justice William O. Douglas (in part and dissenting in part)
subject linked to:
Maine, Minnesota, United States