Houlton, Maine
E209078
Houlton, Maine is a small town in northern Maine known as a regional service center near the Canadian border and the gateway to Aroostook County.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Houlton, Maine canonical | 6 |
| Houlton | 1 |
| Town of Houlton government | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T536539 — 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: Houlton, Maine Context triple: [Aroostook County, Maine, hasCountySeat, Houlton, Maine]
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Harrison, Maine
Harrison, Maine is a small town in western Maine known for its lakeside setting and recreational opportunities in Oxford County.
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B.
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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C.
Holden, Maine
Holden, Maine is a small New England town located near Bangor in eastern Maine, known for its rural character and scenic, wooded landscape.
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D.
Skowhegan, Maine
Skowhegan, Maine is a small town in central Maine known as the seat of Somerset County and for its historic downtown along the Kennebec River.
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E.
Bingham, Maine
Bingham, Maine is a small rural town in central Maine known for its outdoor recreation opportunities along the Kennebec River.
- 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: Houlton, Maine Target entity description: Houlton, Maine is a small town in northern Maine known as a regional service center near the Canadian border and the gateway to Aroostook County.
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A.
Harrison, Maine
Harrison, Maine is a small town in western Maine known for its lakeside setting and recreational opportunities in Oxford County.
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B.
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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C.
Holden, Maine
Holden, Maine is a small New England town located near Bangor in eastern Maine, known for its rural character and scenic, wooded landscape.
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D.
Skowhegan, Maine
Skowhegan, Maine is a small town in central Maine known as the seat of Somerset County and for its historic downtown along the Kennebec River.
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E.
Bingham, Maine
Bingham, Maine is a small rural town in central Maine known for its outdoor recreation opportunities along the Kennebec River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Houlton, Maine Description of subject: Houlton, Maine is a small town in northern Maine known as a regional service center near the Canadian border and the gateway to Aroostook County.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Houlton
this entity surface form:
Town of Houlton government