Penobscot County, Maine
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Penobscot County, Maine is a large county in central Maine that includes the city of Bangor and serves as a regional hub for commerce, education, and transportation.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Penobscot County, Maine canonical | 154 |
| Penobscot County | 26 |
| Penobscot County (part) | 1 |
| Penobscot County region | 1 |
| Penobscot County, Maine (not county seat) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T59497 — 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: Penobscot County, Maine Context triple: [U.S. Route 2 in Maine, passesThrough, Penobscot County, Maine]
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A.
Franklin County, Maine
Franklin County, Maine is a largely rural county in western Maine known for its forests, lakes, and outdoor recreation areas in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
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B.
Oxford County, Maine
Oxford County, Maine is a largely rural county in western Maine known for its forests, lakes, and small towns near the New Hampshire border.
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C.
Somerset County, Maine
Somerset County, Maine is a largely rural county in central Maine known for its forests, rivers, and outdoor recreation, including parts of the Kennebec River and the Moosehead Lake region.
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D.
Fort Kent, Maine
Fort Kent, Maine is a small town in northern Aroostook County known for its location at the Canadian border and as a gateway to the North Maine Woods.
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E.
Barnstable
Barnstable is the largest town on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, serving as a key commercial and administrative center for the region.
- 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: Penobscot County, Maine Target entity description: Penobscot County, Maine is a large county in central Maine that includes the city of Bangor and serves as a regional hub for commerce, education, and transportation.
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A.
Franklin County, Maine
Franklin County, Maine is a largely rural county in western Maine known for its forests, lakes, and outdoor recreation areas in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
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B.
Oxford County, Maine
Oxford County, Maine is a largely rural county in western Maine known for its forests, lakes, and small towns near the New Hampshire border.
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C.
Somerset County, Maine
Somerset County, Maine is a largely rural county in central Maine known for its forests, rivers, and outdoor recreation, including parts of the Kennebec River and the Moosehead Lake region.
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D.
Fort Kent, Maine
Fort Kent, Maine is a small town in northern Aroostook County known for its location at the Canadian border and as a gateway to the North Maine Woods.
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E.
Barnstable
Barnstable is the largest town on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, serving as a key commercial and administrative center for the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (73)
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: Penobscot County, Maine Description of subject: Penobscot County, Maine is a large county in central Maine that includes the city of Bangor and serves as a regional hub for commerce, education, and transportation.
Referenced by (183)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Eastern Maine
this entity surface form:
Penobscot County (part)
this entity surface form:
Penobscot County
this entity surface form:
Penobscot County
this entity surface form:
Penobscot County
this entity surface form:
Penobscot County
this entity surface form:
Penobscot County
this entity surface form:
Penobscot County