Searsport, Maine
E849128
Searsport, Maine is a small coastal town in New England known for its historic deep-water port and maritime heritage.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Searsport, Maine canonical | 3 |
| Port of Searsport | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3529086 — 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: Searsport, Maine Context triple: [Waldo County, Maine, hasTown, Searsport, Maine]
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A.
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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B.
Rockport, Maine
Rockport, Maine is a coastal town in Knox County known for its picturesque harbor, maritime heritage, and vibrant arts community.
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C.
Collinsport, Maine
Collinsport, Maine is a fictional, fog-shrouded coastal town known as the eerie, gothic setting of the Dark Shadows franchise.
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D.
Waterford, Maine
Waterford, Maine is a small rural town in Oxford County known for its lakes, forests, and traditional New England village character.
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E.
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.
- 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: Searsport, Maine Target entity description: Searsport, Maine is a small coastal town in New England known for its historic deep-water port and maritime heritage.
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A.
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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B.
Rockport, Maine
Rockport, Maine is a coastal town in Knox County known for its picturesque harbor, maritime heritage, and vibrant arts community.
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C.
Collinsport, Maine
Collinsport, Maine is a fictional, fog-shrouded coastal town known as the eerie, gothic setting of the Dark Shadows franchise.
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D.
Waterford, Maine
Waterford, Maine is a small rural town in Oxford County known for its lakes, forests, and traditional New England village character.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | town ⓘ |
| borders |
Belfast Bay
ⓘ
Penobscot Bay ⓘ |
| category |
Populated coastal places in Maine
ⓘ
Towns in Waldo County, Maine ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county |
Waldo County
ⓘ
linked to:
Waldo County, Maine
|
| economyIncludes |
maritime industries
ⓘ
shipping ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| governmentType | New England town government ⓘ |
| hasAttraction |
Penobscot Marine Museum
ⓘ
Victorian-era homes ⓘ historic waterfront ⓘ maritime-themed exhibits ⓘ |
| hasBodyOfWater |
Penobscot Bay
ⓘ
Searsport Harbor ⓘ |
| hasFeature | deep-water port ⓘ |
| hasHeritage |
maritime culture
ⓘ
shipbuilding tradition ⓘ |
| hasHistoricRole |
home port for many sea captains
ⓘ
important 19th-century shipping center ⓘ |
| hasMuseum | Penobscot Marine Museum ⓘ |
| hasPort |
Port of Searsport
ⓘ
linked to:
Searsport, Maine
|
| hasPostalCode | 04974 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
historic seafaring history
ⓘ
maritime heritage ⓘ ship captains and shipbuilding ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Waldo County, Maine
ⓘ
coastal Maine ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Belfast, Maine
ⓘ
Frankfort, Maine ⓘ Prospect, Maine ⓘ Stockton Springs, Maine ⓘ Swanville, Maine ⓘ
linked to:
Searsmont, Maine
|
| locatedOn |
Penobscot Bay
ⓘ
coast of Maine ⓘ |
| partOf |
Maritime New England
ⓘ
linked to:
New England coastline
United States East Coast ⓘ
linked to:
East Coast of the United States
|
| portType | deep-water seaport ⓘ |
| region | New England ⓘ |
| state | Maine ⓘ |
| timeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| traversedBy |
U.S. Route 1
ⓘ
U.S. Route 1A ⓘ |
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: Searsport, Maine Description of subject: Searsport, Maine is a small coastal town in New England known for its historic deep-water port and maritime heritage.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Searsport, Maine