Mount Desert Island
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Mount Desert Island is a large, scenic island off the coast of Maine best known as the home of Acadia National Park and the town of Bar Harbor.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mount Desert Island canonical | 26 |
| Mount Desert Island, Maine | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1812976 — 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: Mount Desert Island Context triple: [Maine State Route 3, passesThrough, Mount Desert Island]
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A.
Unimak Island
Unimak Island is the largest and easternmost island in Alaska’s Aleutian chain, known for its volcanic peaks and rich wildlife.
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B.
Chebeague Island, Maine
Chebeague Island, Maine is a small island community in Casco Bay known for its coastal scenery, historic fishing and lobstering heritage, and role as a seasonal and year-round residential destination.
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C.
Fundy Isles
Fundy Isles is a scenic archipelago in southwestern New Brunswick, Canada, known for its coastal landscapes, fishing communities, and proximity to the Bay of Fundy.
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D.
Brewsters Islands
Brewsters Islands are a small group of islands in Boston Harbor known for their rugged coastal scenery and historic maritime significance.
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E.
Presque Isle, Maine
Presque Isle, Maine is the largest city in Aroostook County and a regional hub for education, commerce, and outdoor recreation in northern Maine.
- 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: Mount Desert Island Target entity description: Mount Desert Island is a large, scenic island off the coast of Maine best known as the home of Acadia National Park and the town of Bar Harbor.
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A.
Unimak Island
Unimak Island is the largest and easternmost island in Alaska’s Aleutian chain, known for its volcanic peaks and rich wildlife.
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B.
Chebeague Island, Maine
Chebeague Island, Maine is a small island community in Casco Bay known for its coastal scenery, historic fishing and lobstering heritage, and role as a seasonal and year-round residential destination.
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C.
Fundy Isles
Fundy Isles is a scenic archipelago in southwestern New Brunswick, Canada, known for its coastal landscapes, fishing communities, and proximity to the Bay of Fundy.
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D.
Brewsters Islands
Brewsters Islands are a small group of islands in Boston Harbor known for their rugged coastal scenery and historic maritime significance.
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E.
Presque Isle, Maine
Presque Isle, Maine is the largest city in Aroostook County and a regional hub for education, commerce, and outdoor recreation in northern Maine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographic feature
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island ⓘ |
| area |
approximately 108 square miles
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approximately 280 square kilometers ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| connectedBy |
Trenton Bridge
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causeway to the mainland ⓘ |
| contains |
Acadia National Park
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Bar Harbor NERFINISHED ⓘ Bass Harbor Head Light ⓘ Cadillac Mountain ⓘ Jordan Pond ⓘ Northeast Harbor ⓘ Otter Cliff ⓘ Seal Harbor ⓘ Somes Sound ⓘ Thunder Hole ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| elevation | Cadillac Mountain 466 meters ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
fjard-like Somes Sound
ⓘ
forests ⓘ glacially carved valleys ⓘ granite mountains ⓘ lakes and ponds ⓘ rugged coastline ⓘ |
| hasHighestPoint | Cadillac Mountain ⓘ |
| hasInstitution |
College of the Atlantic
ⓘ
The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine ⓘ
surface form:
Jackson Laboratory
|
| hasProtectedArea | Acadia National Park ⓘ |
| hasTown |
Bar Harbor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mount Desert, Maine ⓘ
surface form:
Mount Desert
Southwest Harbor, Maine ⓘ
surface form:
Southwest Harbor
Tremont ⓘ |
| knownFor | Acadia National Park ⓘ |
| largestTown | Bar Harbor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hancock County, Maine
ⓘ
Maine ⓘ |
| locatedInBodyOfWater | Gulf of Maine ⓘ |
| locatedOffCoastOf | Maine ⓘ |
| majorEconomicActivity |
boat tours
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hospitality industry ⓘ lobster fishing ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| partOf |
Atlantic coast of the United States
ⓘ
New England ⓘ |
| popularActivities |
biking
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hiking ⓘ scenic driving ⓘ sea kayaking ⓘ wildlife viewing ⓘ |
| rankingBySizeUSIslands |
largest island off the coast of Maine
ⓘ
second-largest island on the U.S. East Coast ⓘ |
| touristSeason |
early fall
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summer ⓘ |
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: Mount Desert Island Description of subject: Mount Desert Island is a large, scenic island off the coast of Maine best known as the home of Acadia National Park and the town of Bar Harbor.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tremont, Maine
subject surface form:
Hancock, Maine
subject surface form:
Swan's Island, Maine
this entity surface form:
Mount Desert Island, Maine