Windham, Maine
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Windham, Maine is a suburban town in southern Maine known for its proximity to Portland and its lakeside recreation areas.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Windham, Maine canonical | 5 |
| South Windham, Maine, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1478482 — 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: Windham, Maine Context triple: [Cumberland County, Maine, contains, Windham, Maine]
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A.
Hampden, Maine
Hampden, Maine is a small town in Penobscot County known as the birthplace of 19th-century social reformer Dorothea Dix.
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B.
Litchfield, Maine
Litchfield, Maine is a small rural town in central Maine known for its lakes, forests, and quiet residential character.
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C.
Windsor, Maine
Windsor, Maine is a small rural town in central Maine known for its agricultural character and location within Kennebec County.
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D.
Van Buren, Maine
Van Buren, Maine is a small town in northern Maine along the Saint John River, directly across from New Brunswick, Canada, known for its French-Acadian heritage and rural character.
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E.
Chamberlain, Maine
Chamberlain, Maine is a fictional small coastal town in Stephen King's works, notably serving as the primary setting of his novel "Carrie."
- 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: Windham, Maine Target entity description: Windham, Maine is a suburban town in southern Maine known for its proximity to Portland and its lakeside recreation areas.
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A.
Hampden, Maine
Hampden, Maine is a small town in Penobscot County known as the birthplace of 19th-century social reformer Dorothea Dix.
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B.
Litchfield, Maine
Litchfield, Maine is a small rural town in central Maine known for its lakes, forests, and quiet residential character.
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C.
Windsor, Maine
Windsor, Maine is a small rural town in central Maine known for its agricultural character and location within Kennebec County.
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D.
Van Buren, Maine
Van Buren, Maine is a small town in northern Maine along the Saint John River, directly across from New Brunswick, Canada, known for its French-Acadian heritage and rural character.
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E.
Chamberlain, Maine
Chamberlain, Maine is a fictional small coastal town in Stephen King's works, notably serving as the primary setting of his novel "Carrie."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| areaCode | 207 ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Cumberland, Maine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Falmouth, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Gorham, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Gray, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Raymond, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Standish, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Westbrook, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Cumberland County, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distanceTo | approximately 10 miles northwest of Portland, Maine ⓘ |
| governmentType | town council ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasEconomicCharacteristic | retail center for Lakes Region of Maine ⓘ |
| hasElementarySchool | Windham Primary School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHighSchool | Windham High School (Maine) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandUseCharacteristic | suburban ⓘ |
| hasMajorBodyOfWater | Sebago Lake watershed ⓘ |
| hasMiddleSchool | Windham Middle School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPrison | Maine Correctional Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPublicSafetyService |
Windham Fire-Rescue Department
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Windham Police Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRecreationType |
boating
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ hiking ⓘ lakeside recreation ⓘ snowmobiling ⓘ swimming ⓘ |
| hasRiver | Presumpscot River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVillage | North Windham, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| incorporatedAsTown | 18th century ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Highland Lake (Maine)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Little Sebago Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ Portland, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Sebago Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedFor | Windham, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | yes ⓘ |
| originalName | New Marblehead NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Greater Portland, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 04062 ⓘ |
| region | Southern Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| schoolDistrict | Windham-Raymond School District RSU 14 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Maine ⓘ |
| traversedBy |
Maine State Route 115
NERFINISHED
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Maine State Route 35 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 302 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Windham, Maine Description of subject: Windham, Maine is a suburban town in southern Maine known for its proximity to Portland and its lakeside recreation areas.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Standish, Maine
this entity surface form:
South Windham, Maine, United States