New Bedford Folk Festival
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The New Bedford Folk Festival is an annual music and arts event in New Bedford, Massachusetts, showcasing folk musicians, artisans, and cultural performances from the region and beyond.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New Bedford Folk Festival canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1024061 — 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: New Bedford Folk Festival Context triple: [New Bedford, Massachusetts, hasCulturalEvent, New Bedford Folk Festival]
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A.
Newport Folk Festival
The Newport Folk Festival is a historic American music festival renowned for showcasing influential folk, roots, and Americana artists and for pivotal moments like Bob Dylan’s controversial electric performance in 1965.
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B.
Ithaca Festival
Ithaca Festival is an annual community arts and music celebration in downtown Ithaca, New York, featuring local performers, parades, and cultural activities.
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C.
Wellfleet OysterFest
Wellfleet OysterFest is an annual fall festival in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, celebrating the town’s famous oysters with food, music, and community events.
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D.
Williamstown Theatre Festival
Williamstown Theatre Festival is a renowned summer theater festival in Williamstown, Massachusetts, known for premiering new plays and attracting prominent actors and directors to the Berkshires.
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E.
Harborfest
Harborfest is a major annual maritime and music festival in Norfolk, Virginia, featuring tall ships, live entertainment, and waterfront celebrations.
- 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: New Bedford Folk Festival Target entity description: The New Bedford Folk Festival is an annual music and arts event in New Bedford, Massachusetts, showcasing folk musicians, artisans, and cultural performances from the region and beyond.
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A.
Newport Folk Festival
The Newport Folk Festival is a historic American music festival renowned for showcasing influential folk, roots, and Americana artists and for pivotal moments like Bob Dylan’s controversial electric performance in 1965.
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B.
Ithaca Festival
Ithaca Festival is an annual community arts and music celebration in downtown Ithaca, New York, featuring local performers, parades, and cultural activities.
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C.
Wellfleet OysterFest
Wellfleet OysterFest is an annual fall festival in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, celebrating the town’s famous oysters with food, music, and community events.
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D.
Williamstown Theatre Festival
Williamstown Theatre Festival is a renowned summer theater festival in Williamstown, Massachusetts, known for premiering new plays and attracting prominent actors and directors to the Berkshires.
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E.
Harborfest
Harborfest is a major annual maritime and music festival in Norfolk, Virginia, featuring tall ships, live entertainment, and waterfront celebrations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
annual event
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folk festival ⓘ music festival ⓘ |
| artForm |
crafts
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folk arts ⓘ music ⓘ |
| audience |
folk music fans
ⓘ
local community ⓘ tourists ⓘ |
| category | music and arts festival ⓘ |
| city |
New Bedford, Massachusetts
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surface form:
New Bedford
|
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| culturalRegion | Northeastern United States ⓘ |
| focus |
artisans
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cultural performances ⓘ folk musicians ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| genre | folk music ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
artisan marketplace
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cultural showcases ⓘ live performances ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| location | New Bedford, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| name | New Bedford Folk Festival self-link ⓘ |
| region | New England ⓘ |
| scope |
international
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national ⓘ regional ⓘ |
| state | Massachusetts ⓘ |
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: New Bedford Folk Festival Description of subject: The New Bedford Folk Festival is an annual music and arts event in New Bedford, Massachusetts, showcasing folk musicians, artisans, and cultural performances from the region and beyond.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.