Old Line State
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Old Line State is a nickname for Maryland, reflecting its historic role and steadfastness during the American Revolutionary War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old Line State canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9824739 — 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: Old Line State Context triple: [Maryland, nickname, Old Line State]
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A.
Land of Lincoln
Land of Lincoln is a nickname for the U.S. state of Illinois, highlighting its strong historical association with President Abraham Lincoln.
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B.
Northern State
Northern State is a sparsely populated administrative region in northern Sudan that encompasses much of the Nubian Desert and stretches along the Nile River.
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C.
Hennesee
Hennesee is a reservoir and popular recreational lake in Germany’s Sauerland region, known for activities like boating, swimming, and hiking.
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D.
Las Bela State
Las Bela State was a former princely state in the Baluchistan region of British India, located along the Arabian Sea coast in what is now southwestern Pakistan.
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E.
Mon State
Mon State is a coastal administrative region in southeastern Myanmar known for its ethnically diverse population, including significant Mon and Karen communities, and its historical and cultural importance.
- 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: Old Line State Target entity description: Old Line State is a nickname for Maryland, reflecting its historic role and steadfastness during the American Revolutionary War.
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A.
Land of Lincoln
Land of Lincoln is a nickname for the U.S. state of Illinois, highlighting its strong historical association with President Abraham Lincoln.
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B.
Northern State
Northern State is a sparsely populated administrative region in northern Sudan that encompasses much of the Nubian Desert and stretches along the Nile River.
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C.
Hennesee
Hennesee is a reservoir and popular recreational lake in Germany’s Sauerland region, known for activities like boating, swimming, and hiking.
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D.
Las Bela State
Las Bela State was a former princely state in the Baluchistan region of British India, located along the Arabian Sea coast in what is now southwestern Pakistan.
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E.
Mon State
Mon State is a coastal administrative region in southeastern Myanmar known for its ethnically diverse population, including significant Mon and Karen communities, and its historical and cultural importance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state nickname ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Maryland educational materials
ⓘ
Maryland historical literature ⓘ |
| appliesToGovernmentDivision |
U.S. state of Maryland
ⓘ
linked to:
Maryland
|
| associatedMilitaryUnit | Maryland Line ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace |
Mid-Atlantic region of the United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Mid-Atlantic states
|
| associatedWithQuality |
bravery of Maryland soldiers
ⓘ
loyalty of Maryland to the American cause ⓘ |
| category | Nicknames of U.S. states ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasAlternativeForm | The Old Line State ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | Maryland state identity ⓘ |
| hasEtymology | derived from Maryland Line, regiments in the Continental Army ⓘ |
| honors | Continental Army soldiers from Maryland ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableBattleContext | Battle of Long Island ⓘ |
| refersTo | Maryland ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Chesapeake Bay State
ⓘ
linked to:
Chesapeake Bay region
Free State ⓘ |
| symbolizes | steadfastness of Maryland troops in the Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfOrigin | 18th century ⓘ |
| usedAs | official nickname of Maryland ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Maryland license plates
ⓘ
linked to:
Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration
Maryland tourism materials ⓘ |
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: Old Line State Description of subject: Old Line State is a nickname for Maryland, reflecting its historic role and steadfastness during the American Revolutionary War.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Maryland and Delaware
subject linked to:
entire state of Maryland
subject linked to:
MD