Sangerville, Maine, United States
E387914
Sangerville, Maine, United States, is a small rural town best known as the birthplace of inventor Hiram Maxim, creator of the first portable fully automatic machine gun.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sangerville, Maine, United States canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3785731 — 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: Sangerville, Maine, United States Context triple: [Hiram Maxim, birthPlace, Sangerville, Maine, United States]
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A.
Waterville, Maine, United States
Waterville, Maine, United States, is a small city on the Kennebec River known for its historic mill heritage, Colby College, and role as the hometown of prominent politician Edmund Muskie.
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B.
Wiscasset, Maine, United States
Wiscasset, Maine, United States, is a small historic coastal town on the Sheepscot River known for its 18th- and 19th-century architecture and its role as a former regional shipping and trade center.
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C.
Greenfield, Maine
Greenfield, Maine is a small rural town located in Penobscot County in the central part of the state.
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D.
Lovell, Maine
Lovell, Maine is a small rural town in Oxford County known for its scenic lakes and mountains in western Maine.
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E.
Saco, Maine, United States
Saco, Maine, United States, is a small coastal city in York County known for its historic mill district along the Saco River and its proximity to popular southern Maine beaches.
- 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: Sangerville, Maine, United States Target entity description: Sangerville, Maine, United States, is a small rural town best known as the birthplace of inventor Hiram Maxim, creator of the first portable fully automatic machine gun.
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A.
Waterville, Maine, United States
Waterville, Maine, United States, is a small city on the Kennebec River known for its historic mill heritage, Colby College, and role as the hometown of prominent politician Edmund Muskie.
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B.
Wiscasset, Maine, United States
Wiscasset, Maine, United States, is a small historic coastal town on the Sheepscot River known for its 18th- and 19th-century architecture and its role as a former regional shipping and trade center.
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C.
Greenfield, Maine
Greenfield, Maine is a small rural town located in Penobscot County in the central part of the state.
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D.
Lovell, Maine
Lovell, Maine is a small rural town in Oxford County known for its scenic lakes and mountains in western Maine.
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E.
Saco, Maine, United States
Saco, Maine, United States, is a small coastal city in York County known for its historic mill district along the Saco River and its proximity to popular southern Maine beaches.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| areaCode | 207 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision | New England ⓘ |
| county | Piscataquis County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 23-66155 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0582740 ⓘ |
| governmentType | New England town ⓘ |
| hasBirthplaceOf |
Sir Hiram Maxim
ⓘ
surface form:
Hiram Maxim
|
| hasFeature |
forested areas
ⓘ
rural landscape ⓘ small-town community ⓘ |
| hasLatitude | 45.1667° N ⓘ |
| hasLongitude | 69.3667° W ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerson |
Sir Hiram Maxim
ⓘ
surface form:
Hiram Maxim
|
| hasPostalCode | 04479 ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | rural town ⓘ |
| hasTimeZone |
Eastern Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Daylight Time
Eastern Time Zone ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Standard Time
|
| knownFor | being the birthplace of Hiram Maxim ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New England
ⓘ
Piscataquis County, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Dover-Foxcroft, Maine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Guilford, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Peleg Sangerville ⓘ |
| partOf |
Maine
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| region | Piscataquis County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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: Sangerville, Maine, United States Description of subject: Sangerville, Maine, United States, is a small rural town best known as the birthplace of inventor Hiram Maxim, creator of the first portable fully automatic machine gun.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hiram Maxim