Maine State Police
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The Maine State Police is the statewide law enforcement agency responsible for patrolling highways, investigating crimes, and providing public safety services throughout the state of Maine.
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T320485 — 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 Police Context triple: [Interstate 95 near Newport, Maine, emergencyServicesProvidedBy, Maine State Police]
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A.
Massachusetts State Police
The Massachusetts State Police is the statewide law enforcement agency responsible for highway patrol, criminal investigations, and public safety across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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B.
Maryland State Police
The Maryland State Police is the statewide law enforcement agency responsible for highway patrol, criminal investigations, and public safety across the state of Maryland.
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C.
New York State Police
The New York State Police is the statewide law enforcement agency responsible for highway patrol, criminal investigations, and public safety across New York State.
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D.
Oregon State Police
The Oregon State Police is a statewide law enforcement agency in Oregon responsible for highway patrol, criminal investigations, and supporting public safety across the state.
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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 Police Target entity description: The Maine State Police is the statewide law enforcement agency responsible for patrolling highways, investigating crimes, and providing public safety services throughout the state of Maine.
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A.
Massachusetts State Police
The Massachusetts State Police is the statewide law enforcement agency responsible for highway patrol, criminal investigations, and public safety across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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B.
Maryland State Police
The Maryland State Police is the statewide law enforcement agency responsible for highway patrol, criminal investigations, and public safety across the state of Maryland.
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C.
New York State Police
The New York State Police is the statewide law enforcement agency responsible for highway patrol, criminal investigations, and public safety across New York State.
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D.
Oregon State Police
The Oregon State Police is a statewide law enforcement agency in Oregon responsible for highway patrol, criminal investigations, and supporting public safety across the state.
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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)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
law enforcement agency
ⓘ
state police agency ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| employerOf |
civilian public safety personnel
ⓘ
state troopers ⓘ sworn law enforcement officers ⓘ |
| follows |
Maine Revised Statutes
ⓘ
United States Constitution ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Maine State Police Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Unit
ⓘ
linked to:
Maine State Police
Maine State Police Communications Unit ⓘ
linked to:
Maine State Police
Maine State Police Criminal Intelligence Unit ⓘ
linked to:
Maine State Police
Maine State Police Forensic Laboratory ⓘ
linked to:
Maine State Police
Maine State Police Major Crimes Unit ⓘ
linked to:
Maine State Police
Maine State Police Tactical Team ⓘ
linked to:
Maine State Police
Maine State Police Traffic Division ⓘ
linked to:
Maine State Police
|
| hasMotto | Integrity, Fairness, Compassion ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Augusta, Maine ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Maine highways
ⓘ
State of Maine ⓘ
linked to:
Maine
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Maine ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
rural areas of Maine
ⓘ
small towns in Maine ⓘ unorganized territories of Maine ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Maine Department of Public Safety ⓘ |
| partOf | Maine law enforcement system ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
commercial vehicle enforcement
ⓘ
criminal intelligence services ⓘ criminal investigations in Maine ⓘ emergency response on state highways ⓘ forensic services ⓘ highway patrol in Maine ⓘ major crime investigations ⓘ missing persons investigations ⓘ public safety services in Maine ⓘ statewide communications for law enforcement ⓘ statewide law enforcement in Maine ⓘ support to local law enforcement agencies ⓘ tactical response operations ⓘ traffic crash investigations ⓘ traffic enforcement on state highways ⓘ |
| sector | public safety ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | Maine Department of Public Safety ⓘ |
| usesEquipment |
emergency lights and sirens
ⓘ
firearms ⓘ marked patrol vehicles ⓘ police radios ⓘ unmarked patrol vehicles ⓘ |
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 Police Description of subject: The Maine State Police is the statewide law enforcement agency responsible for patrolling highways, investigating crimes, and providing public safety services throughout the state of Maine.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Maine State Police
linked to: Maine State Police
linked to: Maine State Police
linked to: Maine State Police
linked to: Maine State Police
linked to: Maine State Police
linked to: Maine State Police