Minot, Maine
E199465
Minot, Maine is a small rural town in southwestern Maine known for its quiet residential character and proximity to the cities of Lewiston and Auburn.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Minot, Maine canonical | 8 |
| Minot Fire Department | 1 |
| Minot Town Office | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T517320 — 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: Minot, Maine Context triple: [Androscoggin County, Maine, contains, Minot, Maine]
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A.
Millinocket, Maine
Millinocket, Maine is a small town in northern Maine known historically as a paper mill community and as a gateway to Baxter State Park and Mount Katahdin.
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B.
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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C.
Bingham, Maine
Bingham, Maine is a small rural town in central Maine known for its outdoor recreation opportunities along the Kennebec River.
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D.
Madison, Maine
Madison, Maine is a small town in central Maine known for its rural character, historic mill industry, and location along the Kennebec River.
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E.
Holden, Maine
Holden, Maine is a small New England town located near Bangor in eastern Maine, known for its rural character and scenic, wooded landscape.
- 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: Minot, Maine Target entity description: Minot, Maine is a small rural town in southwestern Maine known for its quiet residential character and proximity to the cities of Lewiston and Auburn.
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A.
Millinocket, Maine
Millinocket, Maine is a small town in northern Maine known historically as a paper mill community and as a gateway to Baxter State Park and Mount Katahdin.
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B.
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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C.
Bingham, Maine
Bingham, Maine is a small rural town in central Maine known for its outdoor recreation opportunities along the Kennebec River.
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D.
Madison, Maine
Madison, Maine is a small town in central Maine known for its rural character, historic mill industry, and location along the Kennebec River.
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E.
Holden, Maine
Holden, Maine is a small New England town located near Bangor in eastern Maine, known for its rural character and scenic, wooded landscape.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Auburn, Maine
ⓘ
Buckfield, Maine ⓘ Hebron, Maine ⓘ Mechanic Falls, Maine ⓘ Poland, Maine ⓘ Turner, Maine ⓘ |
| areaCode | 207 ⓘ |
| characterizedBy | quiet residential character ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| county | Androscoggin County, Maine ⓘ |
| governmentType | New England town government ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
agricultural
ⓘ
residential ⓘ |
| hasLocalGovernment | Minot Board of Selectmen ⓘ |
| hasLocalService |
Minot Fire Department
ⓘ
linked to:
Minot, Maine
Minot Town Office ⓘ
linked to:
Minot, Maine
|
| incorporatedIn | Androscoggin County, Maine ⓘ |
| isRural | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn | New England ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| near |
Auburn, Maine
ⓘ
Lewiston, Maine ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | yes ⓘ |
| partOfMetropolitanArea |
Lewiston–Auburn metropolitan area
ⓘ
linked to:
Lewiston-Auburn metropolitan area
|
| postalCode | 04258 ⓘ |
| region |
southwestern Maine
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Maine
|
| state | Maine ⓘ |
| transportationAccess |
Maine State Route 11
ⓘ
Maine State Route 119 ⓘ |
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: Minot, Maine Description of subject: Minot, Maine is a small rural town in southwestern Maine known for its quiet residential character and proximity to the cities of Lewiston and Auburn.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Minot, Maine
linked to: Minot, Maine