US-ME
E158751
US-ME is the ISO 3166-2 code representing the U.S. state of Maine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| US-ME canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1377414 — 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: US-ME Context triple: [Maine, ISOCode, US-ME]
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A.
US
US is the IATA airline designator code assigned to the former American airline US Airways.
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B.
US-MS
US-MS is the ISO 3166-2 code representing the U.S. state of Mississippi.
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C.
US-SD
US-SD is the ISO 3166-2 subdivision code that uniquely identifies the U.S. state of South Dakota.
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D.
EUA
EUA (European University Association) is a major organization representing and supporting higher education institutions and national rectors’ conferences across Europe in areas such as policy, quality assurance, and institutional development.
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E.
US-RI
US-RI is the ISO 3166-2 subdivision code for the U.S. state of Rhode Island.
- 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: US-ME Target entity description: US-ME is the ISO 3166-2 code representing the U.S. state of Maine.
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A.
US
US is the IATA airline designator code assigned to the former American airline US Airways.
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B.
US-MS
US-MS is the ISO 3166-2 code representing the U.S. state of Mississippi.
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C.
US-SD
US-SD is the ISO 3166-2 subdivision code that uniquely identifies the U.S. state of South Dakota.
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D.
EUA
EUA (European University Association) is a major organization representing and supporting higher education institutions and national rectors’ conferences across Europe in areas such as policy, quality assurance, and institutional development.
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E.
US-RI
US-RI is the ISO 3166-2 subdivision code for the U.S. state of Rhode Island.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | ISO 3166-2 code ⓘ |
| alpha2CountryCode | US ⓘ |
| appliesTo | first-level administrative subdivision of the United States ⓘ |
| codeType | subdivision code ⓘ |
| codingSystem |
International Organization for Standardization
ⓘ
surface form:
ISO
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasComponent |
ME
ⓘ
US ⓘ |
| identifies | US state-level subdivision Maine ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| listedIn | ISO 3166-2:US ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | International Organization for Standardization ⓘ |
| partOf | ISO 3166 ⓘ |
| regionCodeContext | United States subdivisions ⓘ |
| represents | Maine ⓘ |
| standard |
ISO 3166
ⓘ
surface form:
ISO 3166-2
|
| subdivisionCategory | state ⓘ |
| subdivisionCode | ME ⓘ |
| subdivisionName | Maine ⓘ |
| usedFor | identifying the U.S. state of Maine in ISO 3166-2 ⓘ |
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: US-ME Description of subject: US-ME is the ISO 3166-2 code representing the U.S. state of Maine.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.