Southern Maine Community College
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Southern Maine Community College is a public two-year college in Maine offering associate degree and certificate programs with a focus on career preparation and transfer pathways.
All labels observed (4)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2388909 — 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: Southern Maine Community College Context triple: [Southern Maine, hasHigherEducationInstitution, Southern Maine Community College]
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Eastern Maine Community College
Eastern Maine Community College is a public two-year college in Bangor, Maine, offering career-focused and transfer-oriented associate degree and certificate programs.
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Maine Community College System
The Maine Community College System is a network of publicly funded two-year colleges in Maine that provides accessible, career-focused and transfer-oriented higher education across the state.
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Kennebec Valley Community College
Kennebec Valley Community College is a public two-year college in central Maine offering career-focused and transfer degree programs to local and regional students.
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D.
University of Maine at Machias
The University of Maine at Machias is a small public university in Machias, Maine, known for its focus on environmental liberal arts and coastal studies.
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Central Maine Community College (in Auburn)
Central Maine Community College is a public two-year college in Auburn, Maine, offering associate degree and certificate programs serving the Central Maine region.
- 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: Southern Maine Community College Target entity description: Southern Maine Community College is a public two-year college in Maine offering associate degree and certificate programs with a focus on career preparation and transfer pathways.
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Eastern Maine Community College
Eastern Maine Community College is a public two-year college in Bangor, Maine, offering career-focused and transfer-oriented associate degree and certificate programs.
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Maine Community College System
The Maine Community College System is a network of publicly funded two-year colleges in Maine that provides accessible, career-focused and transfer-oriented higher education across the state.
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C.
Kennebec Valley Community College
Kennebec Valley Community College is a public two-year college in central Maine offering career-focused and transfer degree programs to local and regional students.
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D.
University of Maine at Machias
The University of Maine at Machias is a small public university in Machias, Maine, known for its focus on environmental liberal arts and coastal studies.
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Central Maine Community College (in Auburn)
Central Maine Community College is a public two-year college in Auburn, Maine, offering associate degree and certificate programs serving the Central Maine region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
community college
ⓘ
public college ⓘ two-year college ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SMCC ⓘ |
| academicFocus |
career preparation
ⓘ
transfer pathways ⓘ |
| accreditation | New England Commission of Higher Education ⓘ |
| campus |
Brunswick campus
ⓘ
Midcoast Campus ⓘ South Portland campus ⓘ |
| campusSetting | coastal ⓘ |
| city |
South Portland
ⓘ
linked to:
South Portland, Maine
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| degreeLevel | undergraduate ⓘ |
| educationalOffer |
associate degree programs
ⓘ
certificate programs ⓘ |
| fundingType | public ⓘ |
| governedBy | Board of Trustees of the Maine Community College System ⓘ |
| governingBody | Maine Community College System ⓘ |
| hasAttribute |
commuter-friendly
ⓘ
open-admission orientation ⓘ workforce-oriented programs ⓘ |
| hasEducationalMission |
to prepare students for the workforce
ⓘ
to provide affordable, accessible higher education ⓘ to support transfer to four-year institutions ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| offersCredential |
Associate of Applied Science
ⓘ
Associate of Arts ⓘ Associate of Science ⓘ academic certificate ⓘ technical certificate ⓘ |
| offersProgramType |
business programs
ⓘ
career and technical education ⓘ health sciences programs ⓘ liberal arts transfer programs ⓘ maritime and marine-related programs ⓘ trade and technical programs ⓘ |
| offersStudentService |
academic advising
ⓘ
career services ⓘ financial aid counseling ⓘ tutoring ⓘ |
| regionServed | Southern Maine ⓘ |
| sector |
public higher education
ⓘ
public two-year colleges in Maine ⓘ |
| state | Maine ⓘ |
| system | Maine Community College System ⓘ |
| typeOfInstitution | public community college ⓘ |
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: Southern Maine Community College Description of subject: Southern Maine Community College is a public two-year college in Maine offering associate degree and certificate programs with a focus on career preparation and transfer pathways.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Southern Maine Community College
linked to: Southern Maine Community College
subject linked to:
Cumberland County
linked to: Southern Maine Community College
linked to: Southern Maine Community College
linked to: Southern Maine Community College