Islesboro, Maine
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Islesboro, Maine is a small island town in Penobscot Bay known for its scenic coastal setting, summer residences, and reliance on ferry access to the mainland.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Islesboro, Maine canonical | 6 |
| Islesboro Island | 2 |
| Islesboro | 1 |
| Islesboro ferry landing | 1 |
| Islesboro, Maine, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1850247 — 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: Islesboro, Maine Context triple: [Maine State Ferry Service, servesIsland, Islesboro, Maine]
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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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B.
Matinicus Isle, Maine
Matinicus Isle, Maine is a remote, sparsely populated island community in the Gulf of Maine known for its long-standing lobstering tradition and limited access by state-operated ferry or small aircraft.
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C.
Eagle Island, Maine
Eagle Island, Maine is a small island in Casco Bay best known as the longtime summer home and now museum site of Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary.
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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.
Nantucket
Nantucket is a small, historic island and popular summer vacation destination off the coast of Massachusetts, known for its beaches, whaling-era architecture, and maritime heritage.
- 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: Islesboro, Maine Target entity description: Islesboro, Maine is a small island town in Penobscot Bay known for its scenic coastal setting, summer residences, and reliance on ferry access to the mainland.
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A.
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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B.
Matinicus Isle, Maine
Matinicus Isle, Maine is a remote, sparsely populated island community in the Gulf of Maine known for its long-standing lobstering tradition and limited access by state-operated ferry or small aircraft.
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C.
Eagle Island, Maine
Eagle Island, Maine is a small island in Casco Bay best known as the longtime summer home and now museum site of Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary.
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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.
Nantucket
Nantucket is a small, historic island and popular summer vacation destination off the coast of Massachusetts, known for its beaches, whaling-era architecture, and maritime heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Islesboro, Maine Description of subject: Islesboro, Maine is a small island town in Penobscot Bay known for its scenic coastal setting, summer residences, and reliance on ferry access to the mainland.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Islesboro, Maine, United States
this entity surface form:
Islesboro ferry landing
this entity surface form:
Islesboro
this entity surface form:
Islesboro Island
this entity surface form:
Islesboro Island