York, Maine
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York, Maine is a historic coastal town in southern Maine known for its beaches, lighthouses, and status as one of the oldest European-settled communities in the United States.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| York, Maine canonical | 16 |
| York, Maine, United States | 2 |
| town of York, Maine | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T891874 — 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: York, Maine Context triple: [Maine's 1st congressional district, contains, York, Maine]
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A.
Cambridge, Maine
Cambridge, Maine is a small rural town in central Maine known for its quiet, forested landscape and location within Somerset County.
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B.
Westbrook, Maine
Westbrook, Maine is a small city in Cumberland County, just west of Portland, known for its historic mill industry and growing residential and commercial development.
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C.
Plymouth, Maine
Plymouth, Maine is a small rural town in Penobscot County known for its quiet residential character and forested, lake-dotted landscape.
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D.
Bridgewater, Maine
Bridgewater, Maine is a small rural town in northern Maine known for its agricultural landscape and location near the Canadian border.
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E.
Harrison, Maine
Harrison, Maine is a small town in western Maine known for its lakeside setting and recreational opportunities in Oxford County.
- 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: York, Maine Target entity description: York, Maine is a historic coastal town in southern Maine known for its beaches, lighthouses, and status as one of the oldest European-settled communities in the United States.
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A.
Cambridge, Maine
Cambridge, Maine is a small rural town in central Maine known for its quiet, forested landscape and location within Somerset County.
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B.
Westbrook, Maine
Westbrook, Maine is a small city in Cumberland County, just west of Portland, known for its historic mill industry and growing residential and commercial development.
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C.
Plymouth, Maine
Plymouth, Maine is a small rural town in Penobscot County known for its quiet residential character and forested, lake-dotted landscape.
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D.
Bridgewater, Maine
Bridgewater, Maine is a small rural town in northern Maine known for its agricultural landscape and location near the Canadian border.
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E.
Harrison, Maine
Harrison, Maine is a small town in western Maine known for its lakeside setting and recreational opportunities in Oxford County.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: York, Maine Description of subject: York, Maine is a historic coastal town in southern Maine known for its beaches, lighthouses, and status as one of the oldest European-settled communities in the United States.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Justice Wiley B. Rutledge
linked to: York, Maine
linked to: York, Maine
subject linked to:
South Berwick, Maine, United States
subject linked to:
York County
linked to: York, Maine