Brookeville, Maryland
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Brookeville, Maryland is a small historic town in Montgomery County best known for briefly serving as the U.S. capital for a day during the War of 1812.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brookeville, Maryland canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7238264 — 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: Brookeville, Maryland Context triple: [Olney, Maryland, locatedNear, Brookeville, Maryland]
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A.
Brookview, Maryland
Brookview, Maryland is a small incorporated town located in rural Dorchester County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
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B.
Brunswick, Maryland
Brunswick, Maryland is a small city along the Potomac River known historically as a B&O Railroad hub and now as a commuter town within the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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C.
Adelphi, Maryland
Adelphi, Maryland is a suburban community in Prince George's County, just outside Washington, D.C., known primarily as a residential area near the University of Maryland and the city of College Park.
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D.
Glen Burnie, Maryland
Glen Burnie, Maryland is a suburban community in Anne Arundel County near Baltimore, known as a residential and commercial hub with light rail access to the city.
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E.
Seabrook, Maryland
Seabrook, Maryland is a suburban community in Prince George's County known for its residential neighborhoods and proximity to Washington, D.C.
- 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: Brookeville, Maryland Target entity description: Brookeville, Maryland is a small historic town in Montgomery County best known for briefly serving as the U.S. capital for a day during the War of 1812.
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A.
Brookview, Maryland
Brookview, Maryland is a small incorporated town located in rural Dorchester County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
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B.
Brunswick, Maryland
Brunswick, Maryland is a small city along the Potomac River known historically as a B&O Railroad hub and now as a commuter town within the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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C.
Adelphi, Maryland
Adelphi, Maryland is a suburban community in Prince George's County, just outside Washington, D.C., known primarily as a residential area near the University of Maryland and the city of College Park.
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D.
Glen Burnie, Maryland
Glen Burnie, Maryland is a suburban community in Anne Arundel County near Baltimore, known as a residential and commercial hub with light rail access to the city.
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E.
Seabrook, Maryland
Seabrook, Maryland is a suburban community in Prince George's County known for its residential neighborhoods and proximity to Washington, D.C.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic district
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| areaCode |
240
ⓘ
301 ⓘ |
| areaLandSquareMiles | 0.12 ⓘ |
| areaTotalSquareMiles | 0.12 ⓘ |
| areaWaterSquareMiles | 0.00 ⓘ |
| climateType | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| contains | Madison House (Brookeville, Maryland) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Montgomery County, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateVisitedByJamesMadison | August 26, 1814 ⓘ |
| distanceToWashingtonDCMiles | about 20 ⓘ |
| elevationFeet | 453 ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 24-10125 ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Deborah Brooke
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Richard Thomas, Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundingYear | 1794 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0584720 ⓘ |
| governingBody | Town Commission of Brookeville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | commission government ⓘ |
| hasHistoricBuilding |
Brookeville Academy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Thomas Mill and Mill Site NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEvent | temporary seat of the U.S. government on August 26, 1814 ⓘ |
| historicSignificance | early 19th-century milling and farming center ⓘ |
| incorporatedAsTown | 1808 ⓘ |
| knownFor | serving briefly as the U.S. capital during the War of 1812 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Montgomery County
ⓘ
surface form:
Montgomery County, Maryland
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| majorRoad | Maryland Route 97 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedFor | Brooke family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyCommunity | Olney, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearestMajorCity | Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| NRHPListingYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| NRHPReferenceNumber | 79001132 ⓘ |
| NRHPType | Brookeville Historic District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalSettlementType | Quaker agricultural community ⓘ |
| partOf | Washington metropolitan area ⓘ |
| populationCensus2010 | 134 ⓘ |
| populationCensus2020 | 166 ⓘ |
| postalCode | 20833 ⓘ |
| region | Piedmont Plateau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousHeritage | Society of Friends (Quakers) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| schoolDistrict | Montgomery County Public Schools NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Maryland ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Eastern Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Daylight Time
|
| visitedBy | James Madison 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: Brookeville, Maryland Description of subject: Brookeville, Maryland is a small historic town in Montgomery County best known for briefly serving as the U.S. capital for a day during the War of 1812.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sandy Spring, Maryland