Orrington, Maine
E134931
Orrington, Maine is a small town in Penobscot County known for its rural character and proximity to the Penobscot River and the city of Bangor.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Orrington, Maine canonical | 8 |
| Orrington | 4 |
| Town of Orrington, Maine | 3 |
| Town of Orrington | 2 |
| Town of Orrington, Maine municipal government | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T434058 — 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: Orrington, Maine Context triple: [Penobscot County, Maine, hasTown, Orrington, Maine]
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A.
Lovell, Maine
Lovell, Maine is a small rural town in Oxford County known for its scenic lakes and mountains in western Maine.
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B.
Orono, Maine
Orono, Maine is a small town in Penobscot County best known as the home of the University of Maine’s flagship campus.
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Rumford, Maine
Rumford, Maine is a small mill town in western Maine known for its paper industry heritage and proximity to outdoor recreation in the surrounding mountains and rivers.
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D.
Harrison, Maine
Harrison, Maine is a small town in western Maine known for its lakeside setting and recreational opportunities in Oxford County.
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E.
Howland, Maine
Howland, Maine is a small rural town in Penobscot County known for its location along the Penobscot and Piscataquis Rivers and its outdoor recreation opportunities.
- 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: Orrington, Maine Target entity description: Orrington, Maine is a small town in Penobscot County known for its rural character and proximity to the Penobscot River and the city of Bangor.
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A.
Lovell, Maine
Lovell, Maine is a small rural town in Oxford County known for its scenic lakes and mountains in western Maine.
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B.
Orono, Maine
Orono, Maine is a small town in Penobscot County best known as the home of the University of Maine’s flagship campus.
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C.
Rumford, Maine
Rumford, Maine is a small mill town in western Maine known for its paper industry heritage and proximity to outdoor recreation in the surrounding mountains and rivers.
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D.
Harrison, Maine
Harrison, Maine is a small town in western Maine known for its lakeside setting and recreational opportunities in Oxford County.
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E.
Howland, Maine
Howland, Maine is a small rural town in Penobscot County known for its location along the Penobscot and Piscataquis Rivers and its outdoor recreation opportunities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Orrington, Maine Description of subject: Orrington, Maine is a small town in Penobscot County known for its rural character and proximity to the Penobscot River and the city of Bangor.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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