Eastham
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Eastham is a coastal town on outer Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its beaches, salt marshes, and access to the Cape Cod National Seashore.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eastham, Massachusetts | 28 |
| Eastham canonical | 7 |
| Eastham, Plymouth Colony | 3 |
| Town of Eastham | 2 |
| Town of Eastham, Massachusetts | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7448 — 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: Eastham Context triple: [Cape Cod, hasMajorTown, Eastham]
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Yarmouth
Yarmouth is a coastal town on Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its beaches, historic villages, and tourism.
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Falmouth
Falmouth is a prominent coastal town on Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its beaches, ferry access to Martha’s Vineyard, and historic New England charm.
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Provincetown
Provincetown is a historic coastal resort town at the tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, known for its vibrant arts scene, LGBTQ+ community, and scenic beaches.
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Edgartown, Massachusetts
Edgartown, Massachusetts is a historic coastal town on Martha’s Vineyard known for its whaling-era architecture, tourism, and proximity to the site of the Chappaquiddick incident.
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Chatham
Chatham is a coastal town on the southeastern tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, known for its beaches, historic lighthouse, and maritime character.
- 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: Eastham Target entity description: Eastham is a coastal town on outer Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its beaches, salt marshes, and access to the Cape Cod National Seashore.
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Yarmouth
Yarmouth is a coastal town on Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its beaches, historic villages, and tourism.
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Falmouth
Falmouth is a prominent coastal town on Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its beaches, ferry access to Martha’s Vineyard, and historic New England charm.
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Provincetown
Provincetown is a historic coastal resort town at the tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, known for its vibrant arts scene, LGBTQ+ community, and scenic beaches.
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Edgartown, Massachusetts
Edgartown, Massachusetts is a historic coastal town on Martha’s Vineyard known for its whaling-era architecture, tourism, and proximity to the site of the Chappaquiddick incident.
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E.
Chatham
Chatham is a coastal town on the southeastern tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, known for its beaches, historic lighthouse, and maritime character.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
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: Eastham Description of subject: Eastham is a coastal town on outer Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its beaches, salt marshes, and access to the Cape Cod National Seashore.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Cape Cod Rail Trail (nearby access)
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