Howard County Fair
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The Howard County Fair is an annual agricultural and community festival featuring livestock shows, rides, contests, and family entertainment in Howard County, Maryland.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Howard County Fair canonical | 2 |
| Howard County Fair Association | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8957639 — 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: Howard County Fair Context triple: [West Friendship, Maryland, hostsEvent, Howard County Fair]
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A.
Delaware County Fair
The Delaware County Fair is an annual agricultural and community festival in Delaware County, Ohio, featuring livestock shows, midway rides, food vendors, and various entertainment events.
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B.
Maryland State Fair
The Maryland State Fair is an annual late-summer fair in Timonium featuring agricultural exhibits, carnival rides, live entertainment, and food, serving as one of the state's major public events.
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C.
Craig County Fair
The Craig County Fair is an annual local event in Craig County, Oklahoma, featuring agricultural exhibits, livestock shows, youth competitions, and community entertainment.
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D.
Adams County Fair
Adams County Fair is an annual community fair in Adams County, Washington, featuring agricultural exhibits, livestock shows, entertainment, and local cultural activities.
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E.
Fairfield County Fair
The Fairfield County Fair is an annual county fair featuring agricultural exhibits, livestock shows, rides, and community events in Fairfield County, Ohio.
- 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: Howard County Fair Target entity description: The Howard County Fair is an annual agricultural and community festival featuring livestock shows, rides, contests, and family entertainment in Howard County, Maryland.
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A.
Delaware County Fair
The Delaware County Fair is an annual agricultural and community festival in Delaware County, Ohio, featuring livestock shows, midway rides, food vendors, and various entertainment events.
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B.
Maryland State Fair
The Maryland State Fair is an annual late-summer fair in Timonium featuring agricultural exhibits, carnival rides, live entertainment, and food, serving as one of the state's major public events.
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C.
Craig County Fair
The Craig County Fair is an annual local event in Craig County, Oklahoma, featuring agricultural exhibits, livestock shows, youth competitions, and community entertainment.
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D.
Adams County Fair
Adams County Fair is an annual community fair in Adams County, Washington, featuring agricultural exhibits, livestock shows, entertainment, and local cultural activities.
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E.
Fairfield County Fair
The Fairfield County Fair is an annual county fair featuring agricultural exhibits, livestock shows, rides, and community events in Fairfield County, Ohio.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
annual event
ⓘ
county fair ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasActivity |
baking contests
ⓘ
craft competitions ⓘ demolition derby ⓘ horse shows ⓘ live music performances ⓘ livestock judging ⓘ petting zoo ⓘ tractor pulls ⓘ youth competitions ⓘ |
| hasDuration | multiple days ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
4-H competitions
ⓘ
agricultural exhibits ⓘ contests ⓘ family entertainment ⓘ food vendors ⓘ games ⓘ livestock shows ⓘ midway rides ⓘ |
| hasSeason | summer ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
agriculture
ⓘ
community ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Howard County, Maryland
ⓘ
linked to:
Howard County
Maryland ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| organizedAs | nonprofit event ⓘ |
| purpose |
promote local agriculture
ⓘ
provide community entertainment ⓘ support 4-H and youth programs ⓘ |
| recurs | annually ⓘ |
| regionServed | Howard County ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
families
ⓘ
local community ⓘ |
| typicalMonthHeld | August ⓘ |
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: Howard County Fair Description of subject: The Howard County Fair is an annual agricultural and community festival featuring livestock shows, rides, contests, and family entertainment in Howard County, Maryland.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Howard County Fair