Bedford Free Library system
E352054
The Bedford Free Library system is a public library organization serving the community of Katonah in the town of Bedford, New York, providing access to books, media, and educational programs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bedford Free Library system canonical | 2 |
| Bedford Free Library | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3352938 — 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: Bedford Free Library system Context triple: [Katonah, New York, hasPublicService, Bedford Free Library system]
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A.
Bedford Free Public Library
Bedford Free Public Library is the public library serving the town of Bedford, Massachusetts, providing residents with access to books, media, programs, and community resources.
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B.
Bedford Public Library
Bedford Public Library is the main public library serving the residents of Bedford, Indiana, providing access to books, digital resources, and community programs.
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C.
Middlesex Public Library
Middlesex Public Library is the community library serving residents of Middlesex Borough, New Jersey, providing access to books, media, and local programs.
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D.
Minuteman Library Network
Minuteman Library Network is a consortium of public and academic libraries in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts that share resources, catalogs, and services for their patrons.
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E.
Fairfield Public Library
Fairfield Public Library is the main public library serving the town of Fairfield, Connecticut, providing community access to books, digital resources, and educational programs.
- 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: Bedford Free Library system Target entity description: The Bedford Free Library system is a public library organization serving the community of Katonah in the town of Bedford, New York, providing access to books, media, and educational programs.
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A.
Bedford Free Public Library
Bedford Free Public Library is the public library serving the town of Bedford, Massachusetts, providing residents with access to books, media, programs, and community resources.
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B.
Bedford Public Library
Bedford Public Library is the main public library serving the residents of Bedford, Indiana, providing access to books, digital resources, and community programs.
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C.
Middlesex Public Library
Middlesex Public Library is the community library serving residents of Middlesex Borough, New Jersey, providing access to books, media, and local programs.
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D.
Minuteman Library Network
Minuteman Library Network is a consortium of public and academic libraries in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts that share resources, catalogs, and services for their patrons.
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E.
Fairfield Public Library
Fairfield Public Library is the main public library serving the town of Fairfield, Connecticut, providing community access to books, digital resources, and educational programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
library organization
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public library system ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| fundingSource |
grants
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local government funding ⓘ private donations ⓘ |
| governanceType | municipal library system ⓘ |
| hasAccessPolicy | publicly accessible ⓘ |
| hasFacilityType | public library building ⓘ |
| hasMission | to provide access to information and educational resources to the community of Katonah and the town of Bedford ⓘ |
| languageOfService | English ⓘ |
| name | Bedford Free Library system self-link ⓘ |
| offersProgramType |
adult programs
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children’s programs ⓘ community programs ⓘ |
| offersResourceType |
audio-visual media
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books ⓘ periodicals ⓘ |
| primaryUserGroup |
residents of Katonah, New York
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residents of the town of Bedford, New York ⓘ |
| providesService |
educational programs
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public access to books ⓘ public access to media ⓘ |
| sector | public ⓘ |
| servesCommunity | Katonah, New York ⓘ |
| servesTown | Bedford, New York ⓘ |
| serviceType |
community events
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lending library services ⓘ on-site reading and study spaces ⓘ reference services ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
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: Bedford Free Library system Description of subject: The Bedford Free Library system is a public library organization serving the community of Katonah in the town of Bedford, New York, providing access to books, media, and educational programs.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Katonah, New York
this entity surface form:
Bedford Free Library