Lubec, Maine
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Lubec, Maine is a small coastal town at the easternmost point of the contiguous United States, known for its historic lighthouse, fishing heritage, and proximity to Canada’s Campobello Island.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lubec, Maine canonical | 27 |
| Lubec | 1 |
| Lubec, Maine, United States | 1 |
| Quoddy Narrows region | 1 |
| Town of Lubec, Maine | 1 |
| United States via Lubec, Maine | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1550253 — 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: Lubec, Maine Context triple: [Campobello Island, adjacentTo, Lubec, Maine]
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A.
Yarmouth, Maine
Yarmouth, Maine is a coastal New England town north of Portland known for its historic village center, annual Clam Festival, and scenic location along the Royal River.
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B.
Westbrook, Maine
Westbrook, Maine is a small city in Cumberland County, just west of Portland, known for its historic mill industry and growing residential and commercial development.
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C.
Kittery, Maine
Kittery, Maine is a historic coastal town at the southern tip of the state, known for its naval shipyard and outlet shopping district.
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D.
North Haven, Maine
North Haven, Maine is a small island town in Penobscot Bay known for its scenic coastal landscapes, fishing heritage, and seasonal tourism.
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E.
Brunswick, Maine
Brunswick, Maine is a coastal New England town known for being the home of Bowdoin College and for its historic downtown and maritime heritage.
- 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: Lubec, Maine Target entity description: Lubec, Maine is a small coastal town at the easternmost point of the contiguous United States, known for its historic lighthouse, fishing heritage, and proximity to Canada’s Campobello Island.
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A.
Yarmouth, Maine
Yarmouth, Maine is a coastal New England town north of Portland known for its historic village center, annual Clam Festival, and scenic location along the Royal River.
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B.
Westbrook, Maine
Westbrook, Maine is a small city in Cumberland County, just west of Portland, known for its historic mill industry and growing residential and commercial development.
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C.
Kittery, Maine
Kittery, Maine is a historic coastal town at the southern tip of the state, known for its naval shipyard and outlet shopping district.
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D.
North Haven, Maine
North Haven, Maine is a small island town in Penobscot Bay known for its scenic coastal landscapes, fishing heritage, and seasonal tourism.
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E.
Brunswick, Maine
Brunswick, Maine is a coastal New England town known for being the home of Bowdoin College and for its historic downtown and maritime heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Lubec, Maine Description of subject: Lubec, Maine is a small coastal town at the easternmost point of the contiguous United States, known for its historic lighthouse, fishing heritage, and proximity to Canada’s Campobello Island.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada
subject linked to:
Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada
linked to: Lubec, Maine
linked to: Lubec, Maine
linked to: Lubec, Maine
linked to: Lubec, Maine
linked to: Lubec, Maine