Limerick, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Limerick, Massachusetts Bay Colony was a colonial-era settlement located in what was then York County in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in present-day Maine.
All labels observed (1)
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| Limerick, Massachusetts Bay Colony canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19776265 — 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: Limerick, Massachusetts Bay Colony Context triple: [York County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, hasSettlement, Limerick, Massachusetts Bay Colony]
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Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony was an early English settlement in New England that developed into a key frontier trading and agricultural community along the Connecticut River in the 17th century.
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B.
Northampton, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Northampton, Massachusetts Bay Colony was an important 18th-century New England town known as a center of religious life and revivalism in colonial Massachusetts.
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C.
Salisbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Salisbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony was a 17th-century English settlement in northeastern Massachusetts, known as one of the early coastal towns established in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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D.
Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colony was one of the earliest English settlements in New England, located across the Charles River from Boston and serving as an important colonial town in the 17th century.
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E.
Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony was one of the earliest English settlements in New England, established in 1630 in what is now part of Boston, Massachusetts.
- 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: Limerick, Massachusetts Bay Colony Target entity description: Limerick, Massachusetts Bay Colony was a colonial-era settlement located in what was then York County in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in present-day Maine.
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A.
Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony was an early English settlement in New England that developed into a key frontier trading and agricultural community along the Connecticut River in the 17th century.
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B.
Northampton, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Northampton, Massachusetts Bay Colony was an important 18th-century New England town known as a center of religious life and revivalism in colonial Massachusetts.
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C.
Salisbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Salisbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony was a 17th-century English settlement in northeastern Massachusetts, known as one of the early coastal towns established in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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D.
Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colony was one of the earliest English settlements in New England, located across the Charles River from Boston and serving as an important colonial town in the 17th century.
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E.
Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony was one of the earliest English settlements in New England, established in 1630 in what is now part of Boston, Massachusetts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.