Boonsboro, Maryland
E498871
Boonsboro, Maryland is a small historic town in Washington County known for its proximity to Civil War sites and its location along the Appalachian Trail.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Boonsboro, Maryland canonical | 3 |
| Keedysville, Maryland | 1 |
| South Mountain, Maryland | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2884745 — 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: Boonsboro, Maryland Context triple: [Sharpsburg, Maryland, near, Boonsboro, Maryland]
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A.
Huntingtown, Maryland
Huntingtown, Maryland is a small unincorporated community in Calvert County known for its suburban-rural character and proximity to the Chesapeake Bay.
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B.
Hughesville, Maryland
Hughesville, Maryland is an unincorporated community and rural crossroads village in Charles County that serves as a regional commercial and administrative center in Southern Maryland.
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C.
Thurmont, Maryland
Thurmont, Maryland is a small town in northern Frederick County known as a gateway to the Catoctin Mountains and nearby Catoctin Mountain Park and Cunningham Falls State Park.
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D.
Forestville, Maryland
Forestville, Maryland is a suburban community in Prince George's County, just outside Washington, D.C., known for its residential neighborhoods and proximity to major highways and federal facilities.
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E.
Benedict, Maryland
Benedict, Maryland is a small unincorporated riverside community in southern Maryland known historically as a landing site during the War of 1812.
- 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: Boonsboro, Maryland Target entity description: Boonsboro, Maryland is a small historic town in Washington County known for its proximity to Civil War sites and its location along the Appalachian Trail.
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A.
Huntingtown, Maryland
Huntingtown, Maryland is a small unincorporated community in Calvert County known for its suburban-rural character and proximity to the Chesapeake Bay.
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B.
Hughesville, Maryland
Hughesville, Maryland is an unincorporated community and rural crossroads village in Charles County that serves as a regional commercial and administrative center in Southern Maryland.
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C.
Thurmont, Maryland
Thurmont, Maryland is a small town in northern Frederick County known as a gateway to the Catoctin Mountains and nearby Catoctin Mountain Park and Cunningham Falls State Park.
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D.
Forestville, Maryland
Forestville, Maryland is a suburban community in Prince George's County, just outside Washington, D.C., known for its residential neighborhoods and proximity to major highways and federal facilities.
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E.
Benedict, Maryland
Benedict, Maryland is a small unincorporated riverside community in southern Maryland known historically as a landing site during the War of 1812.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | town ⓘ |
| areaCode |
240
ⓘ
301 ⓘ |
| celebratesEvent |
Boonsboro Green Fest
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Independence Day festivities ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| county | Washington County, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 545 feet ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 24-08325 ⓘ |
| foundedBy | George Boone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0584720 ⓘ |
| governmentType | Mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasCemetery | Boonsboro Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasElementarySchool | Boonsboro Elementary School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHighSchool | Boonsboro High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricDistrict | Boonsboro Historic District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandmark | Washington Monument State Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMiddleSchool | Boonsboro Middle School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableBusiness | Turn the Page Bookstore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableInn | Inn BoonsBoro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableResident | Nora Roberts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPark | Shafer Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPublicLibrary | Boonsboro Free Library NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
location along the Appalachian Trail
ⓘ
proximity to Civil War sites ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Washington County, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Western Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Appalachian Trail
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hagerstown, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Keedysville, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ Smithsburg, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ South Mountain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | U.S. Route 40 Alternate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Boone family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyBattlefield |
Antietam National Battlefield
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South Mountain State Battlefield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyProtectedArea | Washington Monument State Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| NRHPListing | Boonsboro Historic District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfMetropolitanArea | Hagerstown–Martinsburg metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 21713 ⓘ |
| state | Maryland ⓘ |
| transportation |
served by Maryland Route 34
ⓘ
served by Maryland Route 66 ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | true ⓘ |
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: Boonsboro, Maryland Description of subject: Boonsboro, Maryland is a small historic town in Washington County known for its proximity to Civil War sites and its location along the Appalachian Trail.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Keedysville, Maryland
this entity surface form:
South Mountain, Maryland