Tilghman Island, Maryland
E135425
Tilghman Island, Maryland is a small historic fishing and crabbing community on the Chesapeake Bay known for its working watermen, maritime heritage, and scenic waterfront.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tilghman Island, Maryland canonical | 2 |
| Chesapeake Bay near Tilghman Island | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1128080 — 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: Tilghman Island, Maryland Context triple: [Talbot County, Maryland, contains, Tilghman Island, Maryland]
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A.
Broomes Island, Maryland
Broomes Island, Maryland is a small unincorporated waterfront community on the Patuxent River known for its crabbing, boating, and scenic Chesapeake Bay setting.
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B.
Kent Island
Kent Island is a large, historic island in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay known as one of the earliest English settlements in North America and a key gateway between the Eastern Shore and the Baltimore–Washington region.
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C.
Lovells Island
Lovells Island is a small island in Boston Harbor that is part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area and known for its historic military fortifications and natural coastal scenery.
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D.
Tangier Island
Tangier Island is a small, historic fishing community in Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay known for its crabbing industry, unique dialect, and vulnerability to sea-level rise.
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E.
Bedloe's Island
Bedloe's Island is the former name of Liberty Island in New York Harbor, best known today as the site of the Statue of Liberty.
- 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: Tilghman Island, Maryland Target entity description: Tilghman Island, Maryland is a small historic fishing and crabbing community on the Chesapeake Bay known for its working watermen, maritime heritage, and scenic waterfront.
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A.
Broomes Island, Maryland
Broomes Island, Maryland is a small unincorporated waterfront community on the Patuxent River known for its crabbing, boating, and scenic Chesapeake Bay setting.
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B.
Kent Island
Kent Island is a large, historic island in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay known as one of the earliest English settlements in North America and a key gateway between the Eastern Shore and the Baltimore–Washington region.
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C.
Lovells Island
Lovells Island is a small island in Boston Harbor that is part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area and known for its historic military fortifications and natural coastal scenery.
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D.
Tangier Island
Tangier Island is a small, historic fishing community in Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay known for its crabbing industry, unique dialect, and vulnerability to sea-level rise.
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E.
Bedloe's Island
Bedloe's Island is the former name of Liberty Island in New York Harbor, best known today as the site of the Statue of Liberty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
census-designated place
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island ⓘ unincorporated community ⓘ |
| accessedByRoad | Maryland Route 33 ⓘ |
| areaCode |
410
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443 ⓘ 667 ⓘ |
| connectedBy | Knapps Narrows Bridge ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| hasActivity |
birdwatching
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boating ⓘ kayaking ⓘ recreational fishing ⓘ sailing ⓘ |
| hasAttraction |
Tilghman Island Inn
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Tilghman Island Marina ⓘ seafood restaurants ⓘ working boatyards ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
historic community
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low elevation ⓘ rural character ⓘ small population ⓘ working waterfront ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
charter fishing
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commercial fishing ⓘ hospitality services ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| hasGeographicFeature |
Chesapeake Bay
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Knapps Narrows ⓘ |
| hasHeritage |
Chesapeake Bay maritime traditions
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watermen culture ⓘ |
| knownFor |
commercial fishing
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crabbing ⓘ maritime heritage ⓘ oystering ⓘ scenic waterfront ⓘ seafood industry ⓘ working watermen ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Chesapeake Bay
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Maryland ⓘ Talbot County, Maryland ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Cambridge, Maryland
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Oxford, Maryland ⓘ St. Michaels, Maryland ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Eastern Shore of Maryland ⓘ |
| partOf |
Mid-Atlantic states
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surface form:
Mid-Atlantic region of the United States
|
| postalCode | 21671 ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
coastal flooding risk
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sea level rise impacts ⓘ |
| timeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
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: Tilghman Island, Maryland Description of subject: Tilghman Island, Maryland is a small historic fishing and crabbing community on the Chesapeake Bay known for its working watermen, maritime heritage, and scenic waterfront.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Chesapeake Bay near Tilghman Island