Maine State Ferry Service
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The Maine State Ferry Service is a publicly operated ferry system that provides essential transportation between mainland Maine and several of its coastal island communities.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maine State Ferry Service canonical | 16 |
| Maine State Ferry Service network | 4 |
| Maine State Ferry Service vessels | 1 |
| Maine state ferry network | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T320508 — 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 State Ferry Service Context triple: [Maine Department of Transportation, responsibleFor, Maine State Ferry Service]
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A.
Washington State Ferries
Washington State Ferries is the largest ferry system in the United States, operating a network of passenger and vehicle routes across the waterways of Washington State.
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B.
Cape May–Lewes Ferry
The Cape May–Lewes Ferry is a passenger and vehicle ferry service that crosses the Delaware Bay, connecting Cape May, New Jersey, with Lewes, Delaware.
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C.
Wellfleet
Wellfleet is a coastal town on outer Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its oysters, beaches, and protected seashore.
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D.
Boston and Maine Railroad
The Boston and Maine Railroad was a major New England railroad that operated extensive passenger and freight services across Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and surrounding states from the 19th through the mid-20th century.
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E.
Maine Department of Transportation
The Maine Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Maine’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and related facilities.
- 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 State Ferry Service Target entity description: The Maine State Ferry Service is a publicly operated ferry system that provides essential transportation between mainland Maine and several of its coastal island communities.
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A.
Washington State Ferries
Washington State Ferries is the largest ferry system in the United States, operating a network of passenger and vehicle routes across the waterways of Washington State.
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B.
Cape May–Lewes Ferry
The Cape May–Lewes Ferry is a passenger and vehicle ferry service that crosses the Delaware Bay, connecting Cape May, New Jersey, with Lewes, Delaware.
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C.
Wellfleet
Wellfleet is a coastal town on outer Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its oysters, beaches, and protected seashore.
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D.
Boston and Maine Railroad
The Boston and Maine Railroad was a major New England railroad that operated extensive passenger and freight services across Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and surrounding states from the 19th through the mid-20th century.
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E.
Maine Department of Transportation
The Maine Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Maine’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and related facilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 State Ferry Service Description of subject: The Maine State Ferry Service is a publicly operated ferry system that provides essential transportation between mainland Maine and several of its coastal island communities.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Swan’s Island, Maine
linked to: Maine State Ferry Service
linked to: Maine State Ferry Service