Derry, Maine
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Derry, Maine is a fictional small town in Stephen King’s interconnected universe, best known as the primary setting of his horror novel "It" and several related works.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Derry, Maine canonical | 61 |
| Derry, Maine (fictional town) | 1 |
| Derry, Maine (sewers) | 1 |
| Town of Derry, Maine | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1714539 — 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: Derry, Maine Context triple: [It (novel), setIn, Derry, Maine]
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A.
Derry, New Hampshire
Derry, New Hampshire is a sizable suburban town in southern New Hampshire known for its residential communities and role as a commercial center in Rockingham County.
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B.
Londonderry, New Hampshire
Londonderry, New Hampshire is a suburban town in southern New Hampshire known for its historic apple orchards and proximity to the city of Manchester.
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Biddeford, Maine
Biddeford, Maine is a historic mill city in York County known for its revitalized downtown along the Saco River and its role as a regional economic and educational center.
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D.
York, Maine
York, Maine is a historic coastal town in southern Maine known for its beaches, lighthouses, and status as one of the oldest European-settled communities in the United States.
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E.
Bangor, Maine
Bangor, Maine is a small city in eastern Maine known as a regional commercial and cultural hub and famously associated with author Stephen King.
- 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: Derry, Maine Target entity description: Derry, Maine is a fictional small town in Stephen King’s interconnected universe, best known as the primary setting of his horror novel "It" and several related works.
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A.
Derry, New Hampshire
Derry, New Hampshire is a sizable suburban town in southern New Hampshire known for its residential communities and role as a commercial center in Rockingham County.
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B.
Londonderry, New Hampshire
Londonderry, New Hampshire is a suburban town in southern New Hampshire known for its historic apple orchards and proximity to the city of Manchester.
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C.
Biddeford, Maine
Biddeford, Maine is a historic mill city in York County known for its revitalized downtown along the Saco River and its role as a regional economic and educational center.
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D.
York, Maine
York, Maine is a historic coastal town in southern Maine known for its beaches, lighthouses, and status as one of the oldest European-settled communities in the United States.
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E.
Bangor, Maine
Bangor, Maine is a small city in eastern Maine known as a regional commercial and cultural hub and famously associated with author Stephen King.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Derry, Maine Description of subject: Derry, Maine is a fictional small town in Stephen King’s interconnected universe, best known as the primary setting of his horror novel "It" and several related works.
Referenced by (64)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
It Chapter Two (2019 film)
subject linked to:
shape-shifting entity It
linked to: Derry, Maine
subject linked to:
fictional town of Haven, Maine
subject linked to:
Ben Hanscom in It Chapter Two
subject linked to:
Ben Hanscom in It Chapter Two
subject linked to:
Ben Hanscom in It Chapter Two
subject linked to:
It by Stephen King
subject linked to:
Henry Bowers (character in Stephen King’s It novel)
subject linked to:
It franchise
subject linked to:
Welcome to Derry (upcoming TV series)