United States Census Bureau-defined Bangor metropolitan area
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The United States Census Bureau-defined Bangor metropolitan area is a statistical region in central-eastern Maine centered on the city of Bangor and encompassing surrounding communities for demographic and economic analysis.
All labels observed (1)
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| United States Census Bureau-defined Bangor metropolitan area canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13021756 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: United States Census Bureau-defined Bangor metropolitan area Context triple: [Carmel, Maine, locatedIn, United States Census Bureau-defined Bangor metropolitan area]
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United States Census Bureau-defined Washington urban area
The United States Census Bureau-defined Washington urban area is a statistical urbanized region centered on Washington, Pennsylvania, encompassing the city and its surrounding developed communities for demographic and planning purposes.
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B.
United States Census Bureau statistical area for Portland
The United States Census Bureau statistical area for Portland is a federally defined metropolitan region centered on Portland, Oregon, used for collecting and analyzing demographic and economic data for the city and its surrounding communities.
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C.
United States Census Bureau-defined Elizabethtown metropolitan area
The United States Census Bureau-defined Elizabethtown metropolitan area is a statistical region in central Kentucky centered on the city of Elizabethtown, used primarily for demographic and economic analysis.
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D.
United States Census Bureau metropolitan statistical area of Baltimore-Columbia-Towson
The United States Census Bureau metropolitan statistical area of Baltimore-Columbia-Towson is a federally defined urban region centered on Baltimore and its surrounding communities, used for statistical and economic analysis of the greater metropolitan area.
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E.
United States Census Bureau metropolitan area of Lewiston-Auburn
The United States Census Bureau metropolitan area of Lewiston-Auburn is a federally defined metropolitan region in Maine centered on the twin cities of Lewiston and Auburn and encompassing surrounding communities including Androscoggin County.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: United States Census Bureau-defined Bangor metropolitan area Target entity description: The United States Census Bureau-defined Bangor metropolitan area is a statistical region in central-eastern Maine centered on the city of Bangor and encompassing surrounding communities for demographic and economic analysis.
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A.
United States Census Bureau-defined Washington urban area
The United States Census Bureau-defined Washington urban area is a statistical urbanized region centered on Washington, Pennsylvania, encompassing the city and its surrounding developed communities for demographic and planning purposes.
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B.
United States Census Bureau statistical area for Portland
The United States Census Bureau statistical area for Portland is a federally defined metropolitan region centered on Portland, Oregon, used for collecting and analyzing demographic and economic data for the city and its surrounding communities.
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C.
United States Census Bureau-defined Elizabethtown metropolitan area
The United States Census Bureau-defined Elizabethtown metropolitan area is a statistical region in central Kentucky centered on the city of Elizabethtown, used primarily for demographic and economic analysis.
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D.
United States Census Bureau metropolitan statistical area of Baltimore-Columbia-Towson
The United States Census Bureau metropolitan statistical area of Baltimore-Columbia-Towson is a federally defined urban region centered on Baltimore and its surrounding communities, used for statistical and economic analysis of the greater metropolitan area.
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E.
United States Census Bureau metropolitan area of Lewiston-Auburn
The United States Census Bureau metropolitan area of Lewiston-Auburn is a federally defined metropolitan region in Maine centered on the twin cities of Lewiston and Auburn and encompassing surrounding communities including Androscoggin County.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Census Bureau-defined statistical area
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metropolitan statistical area ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
economic statistics
ⓘ
housing statistics ⓘ population statistics ⓘ |
| centeredOn | Bangor, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| classificationSystem | U.S. metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| definedBy | United States Census Bureau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | Bangor, ME MSA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCentralCity | Bangor, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasComponent | surrounding communities of Bangor ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction |
parts of Penobscot County, Maine
ⓘ
parts of surrounding counties in Maine ⓘ |
| hasName | Bangor metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryFunction | grouping of counties and communities around Bangor for statistics ⓘ |
| hasType | core-based statistical area ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | central-eastern Maine ⓘ |
| partOf | statewide statistical areas of Maine ⓘ |
| statisticalUnit | metropolitan area ⓘ |
| use |
demographic analysis
ⓘ
economic analysis ⓘ |
| usedFor |
federal statistical purposes
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regional planning ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: United States Census Bureau-defined Bangor metropolitan area Description of subject: The United States Census Bureau-defined Bangor metropolitan area is a statistical region in central-eastern Maine centered on the city of Bangor and encompassing surrounding communities for demographic and economic analysis.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.