Crisfield, Maryland
E553374
Crisfield, Maryland is a small waterfront city on Maryland’s Eastern Shore known historically for its blue crab industry and as a departure point for Chesapeake Bay island ferries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Crisfield, Maryland canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5832340 — 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: Crisfield, Maryland Context triple: [Tangier Island, hasFerryConnectionTo, Crisfield, Maryland]
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A.
Seabrook, Maryland
Seabrook, Maryland is a suburban community in Prince George's County known for its residential neighborhoods and proximity to Washington, D.C.
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B.
Pomfret, Maryland
Pomfret, Maryland is a small unincorporated community in southern Maryland known for its rural character and historic churches.
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C.
Chesapeake Beach, Maryland
Chesapeake Beach, Maryland is a small waterfront town on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay known for its marinas, boardwalk, and recreational fishing.
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D.
Chestertown, Maryland
Chestertown, Maryland is a historic small town on Maryland’s Eastern Shore known for its colonial architecture, waterfront on the Chester River, and role as a regional cultural and educational center.
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E.
Accokeek, Maryland
Accokeek, Maryland is a suburban community in southern Prince George’s County known for its scenic Potomac River shoreline and proximity to Washington, D.C.
- 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: Crisfield, Maryland Target entity description: Crisfield, Maryland is a small waterfront city on Maryland’s Eastern Shore known historically for its blue crab industry and as a departure point for Chesapeake Bay island ferries.
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A.
Seabrook, Maryland
Seabrook, Maryland is a suburban community in Prince George's County known for its residential neighborhoods and proximity to Washington, D.C.
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B.
Pomfret, Maryland
Pomfret, Maryland is a small unincorporated community in southern Maryland known for its rural character and historic churches.
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C.
Chesapeake Beach, Maryland
Chesapeake Beach, Maryland is a small waterfront town on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay known for its marinas, boardwalk, and recreational fishing.
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D.
Chestertown, Maryland
Chestertown, Maryland is a historic small town on Maryland’s Eastern Shore known for its colonial architecture, waterfront on the Chester River, and role as a regional cultural and educational center.
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E.
Accokeek, Maryland
Accokeek, Maryland is a suburban community in southern Prince George’s County known for its scenic Potomac River shoreline and proximity to Washington, D.C.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| adjacentWaterBody | Tangier Sound ⓘ |
| areaCode |
410
ⓘ
443 ⓘ 667 ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| coastline | Chesapeake Bay shoreline ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| elevation |
0 feet
ⓘ
0 meters ⓘ |
| featureClass | populated place ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
marinas
ⓘ
seafood packing houses ⓘ working waterfront ⓘ |
| hasFestival | National Hard Crab Derby ⓘ |
| hasHarbor | Crisfield Harbor ⓘ |
| hasPort | Crisfield city dock ⓘ |
| hasRecreation |
birdwatching
ⓘ
boating ⓘ sport fishing ⓘ |
| historicalIndustry |
crab packing
ⓘ
oyster harvesting ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Chesapeake Bay ferries
ⓘ
blue crab industry ⓘ departure point for Smith Island ferries ⓘ departure point for Tangier Island ferries ⓘ seafood processing ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Atlantic Coastal Plain
ⓘ
linked to:
Atlantic coastal plain
Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Shore of Maryland
Somerset County, Maryland ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Chesapeake Bay
ⓘ
Eastern Shore of Maryland ⓘ |
| namedAfter | John W. Crisfield ⓘ |
| nickname | Seafood Capital of the World ⓘ |
| partOf |
United States Mid-Atlantic region
ⓘ
linked to:
Mid-Atlantic states
|
| populationRange | under 5,000 inhabitants ⓘ |
| postalCode | 21817 ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicSector |
commercial fishing
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| region | Somerset County seat area ⓘ |
| state | Maryland ⓘ |
| timezone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| timezoneDST |
Eastern Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Time Zone
|
| transport |
ferry services to Chesapeake Bay islands
ⓘ
served by Maryland Route 413 ⓘ |
| waterfront | true ⓘ |
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: Crisfield, Maryland Description of subject: Crisfield, Maryland is a small waterfront city on Maryland’s Eastern Shore known historically for its blue crab industry and as a departure point for Chesapeake Bay island ferries.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.