York County, Maine
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York County, Maine is a coastal county in the southwestern corner of Maine known for its historic towns, beaches, and role as one of the state’s earliest settled regions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| York County, Maine canonical | 169 |
| York County, Maine, United States | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T320408 — 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 County, Maine Context triple: [Oxford County, Maine, bordersWith, York County, Maine]
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Oxford County, Maine
Oxford County, Maine is a largely rural county in western Maine known for its forests, lakes, and small towns near the New Hampshire border.
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B.
Franklin County, Maine
Franklin County, Maine is a largely rural county in western Maine known for its forests, lakes, and outdoor recreation areas in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
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Cumberland County, Maine
Cumberland County, Maine is a coastal county in southern Maine that includes the state’s largest city, Portland, and serves as its economic and cultural hub.
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D.
Kennebec County, Maine
Kennebec County, Maine is a central Maine county that includes the state capital city of Augusta and serves as an important administrative and economic hub for the region.
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E.
Somerset County, Maine
Somerset County, Maine is a largely rural county in central Maine known for its forests, rivers, and outdoor recreation, including parts of the Kennebec River and the Moosehead Lake 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: York County, Maine Target entity description: York County, Maine is a coastal county in the southwestern corner of Maine known for its historic towns, beaches, and role as one of the state’s earliest settled regions.
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A.
Oxford County, Maine
Oxford County, Maine is a largely rural county in western Maine known for its forests, lakes, and small towns near the New Hampshire border.
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B.
Franklin County, Maine
Franklin County, Maine is a largely rural county in western Maine known for its forests, lakes, and outdoor recreation areas in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
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C.
Cumberland County, Maine
Cumberland County, Maine is a coastal county in southern Maine that includes the state’s largest city, Portland, and serves as its economic and cultural hub.
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D.
Kennebec County, Maine
Kennebec County, Maine is a central Maine county that includes the state capital city of Augusta and serves as an important administrative and economic hub for the region.
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E.
Somerset County, Maine
Somerset County, Maine is a largely rural county in central Maine known for its forests, rivers, and outdoor recreation, including parts of the Kennebec River and the Moosehead Lake region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 County, Maine Description of subject: York County, Maine is a coastal county in the southwestern corner of Maine known for its historic towns, beaches, and role as one of the state’s earliest settled regions.
Referenced by (171)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Walker’s Point
subject linked to:
Nubble Light (Cape Neddick Light)
subject linked to:
Cumberland County