Maine Department of Public Safety
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The Maine Department of Public Safety is the state-level agency responsible for coordinating law enforcement, emergency response, and public safety services across Maine.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maine Department of Public Safety canonical | 3 |
| Maine Bureau of Emergency Communications | 1 |
| Maine Bureau of Highway Safety | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1850205 — 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: Maine Department of Public Safety Context triple: [Government of Maine, hasAgency, Maine Department of Public Safety]
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A.
Maine State Police
The Maine State Police is the statewide law enforcement agency responsible for patrolling highways, investigating crimes, and providing public safety services throughout the state of Maine.
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B.
Maine Bureau of General Services
The Maine Bureau of General Services is a state agency responsible for managing and maintaining government facilities and related support services in Maine.
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C.
Massachusetts State Police
The Massachusetts State Police is the statewide law enforcement agency responsible for highway patrol, criminal investigations, and public safety across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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D.
Government of Maine
The Government of Maine is the state’s central governing authority, encompassing the executive, legislative, and judicial branches that administer public policy and services across Maine.
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E.
Maine Department of Transportation
The Maine Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Maine’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and related facilities.
- 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: Maine Department of Public Safety Target entity description: The Maine Department of Public Safety is the state-level agency responsible for coordinating law enforcement, emergency response, and public safety services across Maine.
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A.
Maine State Police
The Maine State Police is the statewide law enforcement agency responsible for patrolling highways, investigating crimes, and providing public safety services throughout the state of Maine.
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B.
Maine Bureau of General Services
The Maine Bureau of General Services is a state agency responsible for managing and maintaining government facilities and related support services in Maine.
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C.
Massachusetts State Police
The Massachusetts State Police is the statewide law enforcement agency responsible for highway patrol, criminal investigations, and public safety across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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D.
Government of Maine
The Government of Maine is the state’s central governing authority, encompassing the executive, legislative, and judicial branches that administer public policy and services across Maine.
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E.
Maine Department of Transportation
The Maine Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Maine’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and related facilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public safety agency
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state government agency ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
Maine
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Maine ⓘ
surface form:
State of Maine
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| coordinatesWith |
Maine Department of Health and Human Services
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Maine Department of Transportation ⓘ Maine Emergency Management Agency ⓘ county law enforcement agencies in Maine ⓘ federal law enforcement agencies ⓘ local law enforcement agencies in Maine ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| employerOf |
public safety administrators
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public safety communications personnel ⓘ state fire marshals ⓘ state troopers ⓘ |
| hasHeadquartersLocation | Augusta, Maine ⓘ |
| hasMission |
to coordinate public safety resources across Maine
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to protect lives and property in Maine ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Maine Bureau of Highway Safety
ⓘ
Maine Emergency Medical Services ⓘ Maine State Police ⓘ Maine Office of State Fire Marshal ⓘ
surface form:
Office of the State Fire Marshal (Maine)
communications and dispatch services ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.maine.gov/dps ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | state executive department ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| operatesIn | statewide Maine ⓘ |
| oversees |
Maine Department of Public Safety
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Maine Bureau of Emergency Communications
Maine Department of Public Safety self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Maine Bureau of Highway Safety
Maine Emergency Management-related programs ⓘ Maine Emergency Medical Services ⓘ Maine Office of State Fire Marshal ⓘ Maine State Police ⓘ |
| partOf | Government of Maine ⓘ |
| performs |
emergency medical services regulation
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fire safety and arson investigation ⓘ law enforcement support services ⓘ public safety planning ⓘ statewide emergency communications ⓘ traffic safety programs ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
emergency response coordination
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homeland security functions in Maine ⓘ public safety in Maine ⓘ statewide law enforcement coordination ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| subordinateTo |
Executive branch of Maine
ⓘ
surface form:
Executive Branch of Maine
Governor of Maine ⓘ |
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: Maine Department of Public Safety Description of subject: The Maine Department of Public Safety is the state-level agency responsible for coordinating law enforcement, emergency response, and public safety services across Maine.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Maine Department of Public Safety
→
oversees
→
Maine Department of Public Safety
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Maine Bureau of Emergency Communications
Maine Department of Public Safety
→
oversees
→
Maine Department of Public Safety
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Maine Bureau of Highway Safety