Madison, Maine
E150128
Madison, Maine is a small town in central Maine known for its rural character, historic mill industry, and location along the Kennebec River.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fairfield, Maine | 2 |
| Madison, Maine canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T473092 — 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: Madison, Maine Context triple: [Somerset County, Maine, contains, Madison, Maine]
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A.
Lincoln, Maine
Lincoln, Maine is a small town in northeastern Maine known for its numerous lakes, outdoor recreation opportunities, and rural New England character.
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B.
Orono, Maine
Orono, Maine is a small town in Penobscot County best known as the home of the University of Maine’s flagship campus.
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C.
Springfield, Maine
Springfield, Maine is a small rural town located in Penobscot County in eastern Maine, known for its forested landscape and quiet, sparsely populated setting.
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D.
Lovell, Maine
Lovell, Maine is a small rural town in Oxford County known for its scenic lakes and mountains in western Maine.
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E.
Plymouth, Maine
Plymouth, Maine is a small rural town in Penobscot County known for its quiet residential character and forested, lake-dotted landscape.
- 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: Madison, Maine Target entity description: Madison, Maine is a small town in central Maine known for its rural character, historic mill industry, and location along the Kennebec River.
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A.
Lincoln, Maine
Lincoln, Maine is a small town in northeastern Maine known for its numerous lakes, outdoor recreation opportunities, and rural New England character.
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B.
Orono, Maine
Orono, Maine is a small town in Penobscot County best known as the home of the University of Maine’s flagship campus.
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C.
Springfield, Maine
Springfield, Maine is a small rural town located in Penobscot County in eastern Maine, known for its forested landscape and quiet, sparsely populated setting.
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D.
Lovell, Maine
Lovell, Maine is a small rural town in Oxford County known for its scenic lakes and mountains in western Maine.
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E.
Plymouth, Maine
Plymouth, Maine is a small rural town in Penobscot County known for its quiet residential character and forested, lake-dotted landscape.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| areaCode | 207 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision | Somerset County, Maine ⓘ |
| county | Somerset County, Maine ⓘ |
| daylightSavingTimeZone |
Eastern Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Daylight Time
|
| governmentType | New England town government ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
rural
ⓘ
small town ⓘ |
| hasHistoricIndustry |
hydropower-related industry
ⓘ
lumber mills ⓘ paper mills ⓘ |
| hasRiver | Kennebec River ⓘ |
| hasRiverfront | Kennebec River ⓘ |
| isInLandRegion | central interior Maine ⓘ |
| isRuralCommunity | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
historic mill industry
ⓘ
rural character ⓘ |
| locatedIn | central Maine ⓘ |
| locatedInWatershed | Kennebec River watershed ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Skowhegan, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNorthOf | Augusta, Maine ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Kennebec River ⓘ |
| partOf | New England ⓘ |
| postalCode | 04950 ⓘ |
| region |
Somerset County
ⓘ
surface form:
Somerset County region
|
| state | Maine ⓘ |
| 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: Madison, Maine Description of subject: Madison, Maine is a small town in central Maine known for its rural character, historic mill industry, and location along the Kennebec River.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Fairfield, Maine
this entity surface form:
Fairfield, Maine
subject surface form:
Somerset County, Maine