Cow Island
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Cow Island is a small island located within Maine’s Casco Bay, known for its natural scenery and coastal New England character.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cow Island canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1478544 — 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: Cow Island Context triple: [Casco Bay, containsIsland, Cow Island]
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A.
Marsh Island
Marsh Island is a small, marshy island in Seattle’s Lake Washington, known for its wetlands and bird habitat along the Arboretum Waterfront Trail.
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B.
Indian Island
Indian Island is a small, historically significant island located within Humboldt Bay on the northern California coast.
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C.
Bluff Island
Bluff Island is a small coastal island off Prouts Neck in Scarborough, Maine, known for its rocky shoreline and scenic ocean views.
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D.
Moon Island
Moon Island is a small, historically significant island in Boston Harbor that has served various municipal and military uses, including as a training site and former sewage treatment facility.
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E.
Middle Island
Middle Island is one of the small, remote islands in the Tristan da Cunha archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean.
- 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: Cow Island Target entity description: Cow Island is a small island located within Maine’s Casco Bay, known for its natural scenery and coastal New England character.
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A.
Marsh Island
Marsh Island is a small, marshy island in Seattle’s Lake Washington, known for its wetlands and bird habitat along the Arboretum Waterfront Trail.
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B.
Indian Island
Indian Island is a small, historically significant island located within Humboldt Bay on the northern California coast.
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C.
Bluff Island
Bluff Island is a small coastal island off Prouts Neck in Scarborough, Maine, known for its rocky shoreline and scenic ocean views.
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D.
Moon Island
Moon Island is a small, historically significant island in Boston Harbor that has served various municipal and military uses, including as a training site and former sewage treatment facility.
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E.
Middle Island
Middle Island is one of the small, remote islands in the Tristan da Cunha archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographic feature
ⓘ
island ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
coastal New England character
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natural scenery ⓘ small ⓘ |
| hasCoastlineOn |
Atlantic Ocean
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Casco Bay ⓘ |
| hasEnvironment |
coastal
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marine ⓘ |
| hasRegionType | island in Casco Bay ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
islands of Casco Bay
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islands of Maine ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
Casco Bay ⓘ Gulf of Maine ⓘ Maine ⓘ New England ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| partOf | Cumberland County, 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: Cow Island Description of subject: Cow Island is a small island located within Maine’s Casco Bay, known for its natural scenery and coastal New England character.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.