Barstow, Maryland
E213781
Barstow, Maryland is an unincorporated rural community located in Calvert County in the southern region of the U.S. state of Maryland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Barstow, Maryland canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T785768 — 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: Barstow, Maryland Context triple: [Calvert County, Maryland, hasCommunity, Barstow, Maryland]
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A.
White Plains, Maryland
White Plains, Maryland is an unincorporated suburban community in Charles County known for its residential neighborhoods, commercial centers, and access to major routes serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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B.
Edmonston, Maryland
Edmonston, Maryland is a small town in Prince George’s County known for its residential character and proximity to Washington, D.C.
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C.
Bowie, Maryland
Bowie, Maryland is a suburban city in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area known for its planned communities, parks, and family-oriented residential character.
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D.
Walkersville, Maryland
Walkersville, Maryland is a small town in central Maryland known for its suburban-rural character and proximity to the city of Frederick.
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E.
Thurmont, Maryland
Thurmont, Maryland is a small town in northern Frederick County known as a gateway to the Catoctin Mountains and nearby Catoctin Mountain Park and Cunningham Falls State Park.
- 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: Barstow, Maryland Target entity description: Barstow, Maryland is an unincorporated rural community located in Calvert County in the southern region of the U.S. state of Maryland.
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A.
White Plains, Maryland
White Plains, Maryland is an unincorporated suburban community in Charles County known for its residential neighborhoods, commercial centers, and access to major routes serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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B.
Edmonston, Maryland
Edmonston, Maryland is a small town in Prince George’s County known for its residential character and proximity to Washington, D.C.
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C.
Bowie, Maryland
Bowie, Maryland is a suburban city in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area known for its planned communities, parks, and family-oriented residential character.
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D.
Walkersville, Maryland
Walkersville, Maryland is a small town in central Maryland known for its suburban-rural character and proximity to the city of Frederick.
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E.
Thurmont, Maryland
Thurmont, Maryland is a small town in northern Frederick County known as a gateway to the Catoctin Mountains and nearby Catoctin Mountain Park and Cunningham Falls State Park.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
rural community
ⓘ
unincorporated community ⓘ |
| areaCode |
410
ⓘ
443 ⓘ 667 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county | Calvert County, Maryland ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 589761 ⓘ |
| hasCemetery |
Barstow Cemetery
ⓘ
St. Paul Episcopal Church Cemetery ⓘ |
| hasLandmark | Calvert County Fairgrounds ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding |
Barstow United Methodist Church
ⓘ
St. Paul Episcopal Church ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Southern Maryland ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnTransportationRoute | Maryland Route 231 ⓘ |
| nearestCity | Prince Frederick, Maryland ⓘ |
| partOf |
Calvert County, Maryland
ⓘ
Maryland ⓘ Southern Maryland ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| postalCodeType | ZIP code ⓘ |
| regionType | rural ⓘ |
| servedBySchoolDistrict | Calvert County Public Schools ⓘ |
| state | Maryland ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Eastern Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Time Zone
|
| timeZoneStandard |
Eastern Standard Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Time Zone
|
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: Barstow, Maryland Description of subject: Barstow, Maryland is an unincorporated rural community located in Calvert County in the southern region of the U.S. state of Maryland.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.