Dirigo
E195500
Dirigo is the Latin motto meaning "I lead," famously associated with the state of Maine and the University of Maine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dirigo canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1762264 — 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: Dirigo Context triple: [University of Maine, motto, Dirigo]
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A.
Chevak
Chevak is a distinct dialect of the Central Alaskan Yup’ik language spoken primarily in the village of Chevak in western Alaska.
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B.
Crowfoot
Crowfoot is the maiden surname of Nobel Prize–winning chemist Dorothy Hodgkin, reflecting her family lineage.
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C.
Corrsin
Corrsin is a surname most notably associated with Stanley Corrsin, an influential American fluid dynamicist known for his work on turbulence.
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D.
Dedridge
Dedridge is a residential neighbourhood within the new town of Livingston in West Lothian, Scotland.
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E.
Gardiner
Gardiner is an English surname historically associated with Princess Muna al-Hussein, the British-born mother of King Abdullah II of Jordan.
- 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: Dirigo Target entity description: Dirigo is the Latin motto meaning "I lead," famously associated with the state of Maine and the University of Maine.
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A.
Chevak
Chevak is a distinct dialect of the Central Alaskan Yup’ik language spoken primarily in the village of Chevak in western Alaska.
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B.
Crowfoot
Crowfoot is the maiden surname of Nobel Prize–winning chemist Dorothy Hodgkin, reflecting her family lineage.
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C.
Corrsin
Corrsin is a surname most notably associated with Stanley Corrsin, an influential American fluid dynamicist known for his work on turbulence.
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D.
Dedridge
Dedridge is a residential neighbourhood within the new town of Livingston in West Lothian, Scotland.
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E.
Gardiner
Gardiner is an English surname historically associated with Princess Muna al-Hussein, the British-born mother of King Abdullah II of Jordan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | motto ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Maine
ⓘ
State of Maine ⓘ
linked to:
Maine
University of Maine ⓘ |
| etymologyLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| hasTranslation |
I direct
ⓘ
I guide ⓘ I lead ⓘ |
| hasWordType | verb phrase ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| meaning |
I direct
ⓘ
I lead ⓘ |
| mottoOf |
Maine
ⓘ
University of Maine ⓘ |
| partOf | symbolism of Maine ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
authority
ⓘ
direction ⓘ guidance ⓘ initiative ⓘ leadership ⓘ |
| usedAs | state motto of Maine ⓘ |
| usedBy |
University of Maine
ⓘ
government of Maine ⓘ
linked to:
Government of Maine
|
| usedInContext |
educational institutions mottos
ⓘ
state symbols of the United States ⓘ |
| writtenForm | Dirigo ⓘ |
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: Dirigo Description of subject: Dirigo is the Latin motto meaning "I lead," famously associated with the state of Maine and the University of Maine.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.