House Island
E241024
House Island is a small, privately owned island in Casco Bay, Maine, known for its historic Fort Scammel and scenic coastal views.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| House Island canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1478540 — 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: House Island Context triple: [Casco Bay, containsIsland, House Island]
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A.
Low Island
Low Island is a largely ice-covered, low-lying island located off the Antarctic Peninsula within the South Shetland Islands archipelago.
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B.
Sand Island
Sand Island is a small coral islet that forms part of Rose Atoll in American Samoa, known for its remote, protected marine and bird habitats.
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C.
Sand Island
Sand Island is one of the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior, known for its scenic shoreline, historic lighthouse, and opportunities for kayaking and hiking.
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D.
Windmill Island
Windmill Island is a Dutch-themed park and tourist attraction in Holland, Michigan, best known for featuring the historic De Zwaan windmill along with gardens, canals, and cultural exhibits.
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E.
Silhouette Island
Silhouette Island is a mountainous, largely undeveloped granitic island in the Seychelles known for its rich biodiversity, dense tropical forests, and marine protected areas.
- 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: House Island Target entity description: House Island is a small, privately owned island in Casco Bay, Maine, known for its historic Fort Scammel and scenic coastal views.
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A.
Low Island
Low Island is a largely ice-covered, low-lying island located off the Antarctic Peninsula within the South Shetland Islands archipelago.
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B.
Sand Island
Sand Island is a small coral islet that forms part of Rose Atoll in American Samoa, known for its remote, protected marine and bird habitats.
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C.
Sand Island
Sand Island is one of the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior, known for its scenic shoreline, historic lighthouse, and opportunities for kayaking and hiking.
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D.
Windmill Island
Windmill Island is a Dutch-themed park and tourist attraction in Holland, Michigan, best known for featuring the historic De Zwaan windmill along with gardens, canals, and cultural exhibits.
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E.
Silhouette Island
Silhouette Island is a mountainous, largely undeveloped granitic island in the Seychelles known for its rich biodiversity, dense tropical forests, and marine protected areas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coastal fortification
ⓘ
island ⓘ privately owned island ⓘ |
| bay | Casco Bay ⓘ |
| builtFor | harbor defense ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasCoastline | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| hasHistoricSite | Fort Scammel ⓘ |
| hasStructure | Fort Scammel ⓘ |
| hasUse |
recreation
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Fort Scammel
ⓘ
scenic coastal views ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Casco Bay
ⓘ
Casco Bay ⓘ Maine ⓘ Maine ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedOn | House Island self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| near | Portland, Maine ⓘ |
| overlooks | Portland Harbor ⓘ |
| ownership | private ⓘ |
| partOf |
Portland harbor
ⓘ
surface form:
Portland Harbor
|
| state | 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: House Island Description of subject: House Island is a small, privately owned island in Casco Bay, Maine, known for its historic Fort Scammel and scenic coastal views.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Fort Scammel
subject surface form:
Portland Harbor