Hungerford’s Tavern
E450179
Hungerford’s Tavern was an 18th-century inn and public house in Rockville, Maryland, that served as an early political and social center for the surrounding community.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hungerford’s Tavern canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4538364 — 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: Hungerford’s Tavern Context triple: [Hungerford’s Tavern area, hasPart, Hungerford’s Tavern]
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A.
Boar’s Head Tavern
Boar’s Head Tavern is a fictional London inn in Shakespeare’s history plays, best known as the lively haunt of Sir John Falstaff and Prince Hal.
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B.
Jug Tavern
Jug Tavern was the former name of the city now known as Winder in northeastern Georgia, historically a small railroad and trading community.
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C.
Raleigh Tavern
Raleigh Tavern is a historic 18th-century public house in Williamsburg, Virginia, renowned as a key social and political gathering place for American colonial leaders before and during the Revolutionary era.
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D.
The Red Horse Tavern
The Red Horse Tavern was a historic Sudbury, Massachusetts inn whose atmosphere and patrons inspired Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s narrative poem collection "Tales of a Wayside Inn."
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E.
Hog’s Head Inn
Hog’s Head Inn is a shabby, somewhat seedy pub in Hogsmeade that serves as a discreet meeting place for secretive and pivotal events in the Harry Potter series.
- 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: Hungerford’s Tavern Target entity description: Hungerford’s Tavern was an 18th-century inn and public house in Rockville, Maryland, that served as an early political and social center for the surrounding community.
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A.
Boar’s Head Tavern
Boar’s Head Tavern is a fictional London inn in Shakespeare’s history plays, best known as the lively haunt of Sir John Falstaff and Prince Hal.
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B.
Jug Tavern
Jug Tavern was the former name of the city now known as Winder in northeastern Georgia, historically a small railroad and trading community.
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C.
Raleigh Tavern
Raleigh Tavern is a historic 18th-century public house in Williamsburg, Virginia, renowned as a key social and political gathering place for American colonial leaders before and during the Revolutionary era.
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D.
The Red Horse Tavern
The Red Horse Tavern was a historic Sudbury, Massachusetts inn whose atmosphere and patrons inspired Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s narrative poem collection "Tales of a Wayside Inn."
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E.
Hog’s Head Inn
Hog’s Head Inn is a shabby, somewhat seedy pub in Hogsmeade that serves as a discreet meeting place for secretive and pivotal events in the Harry Potter series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic tavern
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inn ⓘ public house ⓘ |
| activeDuring |
early 19th century
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late 18th century ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | 18th-century vernacular ⓘ |
| category |
18th-century establishments in Maryland
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Buildings and structures in Rockville, Maryland ⓘ History of Montgomery County, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Taverns in Maryland ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| demolished | 19th century ⓘ |
| hasUse |
inn
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political gathering place ⓘ public meeting place ⓘ social center ⓘ tavern ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | local historic site (no longer standing) ⓘ |
| inception | circa 1770s ⓘ |
| legacy |
considered a birthplace of Rockville’s civic life
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remembered as early social center of Rockville community ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Maryland
ⓘ
Montgomery County ⓘ
surface form:
Montgomery County, Maryland
Rockville town center area NERFINISHED ⓘ Rockville, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Thompson’s Corner (early name of Rockville area) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | main road between Georgetown and Frederick ⓘ |
| materialUsed | wood ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
histories of Montgomery County, Maryland
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local histories of Rockville ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Charles Hungerford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | early transportation and postal routes between Georgetown and Frederick ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
associated with formation of Montgomery County government
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helped establish Rockville as county seat of Montgomery County ⓘ hosted local elections and political meetings ⓘ served as de facto courthouse before a dedicated courthouse was built ⓘ served as early political center for Rockville area ⓘ used as meeting place for county court sessions ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Hungerford’s Tavern Description of subject: Hungerford’s Tavern was an 18th-century inn and public house in Rockville, Maryland, that served as an early political and social center for the surrounding community.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.